Feb. 25, 2019 – Is there a threshold an entire industry crosses when it does more harm than good? Michigan Technological University researchers set out to examine the question with numbers. A new paper published in the journal Social Sciences (DOI:10.3390/socsci8020062) explores two case studies focused on industries that kill more people than they employ. […]
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In for the Long Haul at Oroville Dam Says Water Resources Expert
February 15, 2017 – Civil engineer Veronica Webster studies long-term trends for assessing flood risk at Michigan Technological University. She says that for the Oroville Dam, the immediacy of the problem is related to longer running issues. “Many of our hydraulic structures are likely under designed,” Webster says, citing the outdated methods for sizing dams […]