Conférencière invitée Helen Sarakinos, (River Alliance of Wisconsin) Département de géographie Conférencière invitée Helen Sarakinos, (River Alliance of Wisconsin) Helen Sarakinos is the dams program manager for the River Alliance of Wisconsin, a statewide river advocacy group that serves as the voice for rivers in the public arena. She works closely with communities and decision-makers to advocate and build campaigns for dam removal as a river restoration and community revitalization tool. Helen is a former Steering Committee member of the national Hydropower Reform Coalition, a consortium of national, state, and local conservation and recreation organizations working to reform national hydropower policies and to achieve improvements to rivers altered by hydropower dams. Helen has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and consulted groups and governments on dam issues in the U.S., Japan, Canada and Iceland. She serves on state technical advisory committees for fish passage and water quality standards in Wisconsin. « Selective Small Dam Removal : The Wisconsin Experience » Vendredi 19 octobre 13h30 Local 430 Département de géographie 520, Côte Ste-Catherine, ouest Métro Édouard-Montpetit, Autobus: 51, 129, 119