Listen in: Marfa Public Radio conducted an interview with SBSC’s Dave Dean published online as a podcast and article, “Nature Notes - From Mighty to Muted: the Secret History of the Big Bend Rio Grande."
How the Rio Grande Changed: 100 Years of History
The interview discussed Dean’s research on the history of changes in sediment deposition, vegetation encroachment, channel narrowing and flooding to the Rio Grande in Big Bend. Dean recently published a USGS Fact Sheet on the research: “A River of Change—The Rio Grande in the Big Bend Region.”