Rosa’s research focuses on the short-term impacts of dam removal on aquatic food webs in the Klamath River.  Four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River are slated to be removed between the summer of 2023 and fall of 2024. This landmark effort will improve downstream water quality and restore anadromous fish passage to ~420 miles of river habitat above the dams. The dam removal process is expected to release substantial amounts of fine sediment and create short-term impacts to benthic macroinvertebrate (BMI) communities and food availability for juvenile salmonids downstream of the dam sites. Rosa’s work aims to measure these impacts and establish baseline data for future assessments of BMI community shifts/recovery following dam removal.   Results of this study are intended to inform future dam removal efforts in coastal rivers.