Mary Miller is a science communicator, digital media producer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. In her writing, Mary concentrates on the confluence of water, energy and the environment in the West and is currently working on a research and reporting project about the deconstruction of four dams on the Klamath River and restoration of salmon habitat in Northern California and Oregon.
Mary's work has taken her to the ice fields of Antarctica and Greenland, in a NOAA hurricane-hunter studying atmospheric rivers, and aboard oceanographic research vessels remotely exploring deep sea volcanoes.
All work associated with removal of the first of four hydroelectric dams slated for demolition on the Klamath River in California and Oregon has been completed by contractor Kiewit, said dam owner Klamath River Renewal Corp. earlier this month.
Technology uses the power of water inside pipes to generate a renewable source of energy, with EPA estimates that the country's 50,000 water utilities collectively consume 4% of its energy to convey and treat water.