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As a team of scientists and boaters, we spent 30 days in raft and kayak exploring and collecting baseline data over 620km of the Rio Marañón's poorly studied environments.
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This film trailer beautifully summarizes the complexity and amazing environments subject to this project.
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The Marañón Project crowdfunding site describes our original mission and team.
Project updates:
August 2017: Alice, together with co-authors Bob Stallard and Karl Rittger, submitted a manuscript for publication entitled "Clarifying regional hydrologic controls of the Marañón River, Peru through rapid assessment to inform system-wide basin planning approaches."
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July 2017: Penguin Random House publishers releases National Geographic Kids Chapter book, Whitewater!, which chronicles The Marañón Project's journey and studies in "The River Unknown."
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March 2017: Short 'main message' film put out by National Geographic.
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December 2016: American Geophysical Union presentations and posters. Topics*: sediment flux study and outreach summary.
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September 2016: Geologic Society of America conference posters. Topics*: hydrologic controls and outreach strategy.
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August 2016: Canoe and Kayak magazine publish "Why the Maranon Matters" by expedition member Christian Martin.
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December 2015: Alice and fellow team member Dr. Jaime Goode author National Geographic voices article, "Dam construction in a volatile landscape."
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*Poster and presentation content can be found here.
The Marañón Project: Rio Marañón, Peru
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Major hydropower development lies in the shadows for one the last free-flowing conduits between the Andean highlands and the Amazon lowlands. As the source the Amazon River itself, on this National Geographic supported project we ask, what don't we know about the Marañón system and how can we help inform decision makers about a best-possible, sustainable holistic system approach?
Above: Canyon layers. The upper Maranon canyon is deeper than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona. Below: A mural in Cellendin expresses local opposition for mining and damming in the region. Photo credit: Christian Martin
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