WA State TU’s WooDDAM Program
Background
WooDDAM is a collaborative effort to build a database and develop a tool for predicting wood jam dynamics in rivers. This tool, designed for both natural and anthropogenic (man-made) jams, is intended for both resource managers and researchers. The database includes information about wood jam characteristics, channel and valley bottom morphology, hydrologic regime, and how wood jams change during high flows of varying magnitude. Many wood jams are tracked over multiple years, providing temporal change data. This database feeds a statistical model to predict how wood jams change during high flows, which can subsequently be used to inform decisions on whether to reintroduce or retain wood jams in streams