Brian Graber

Brian Graber is the Senior Director of Dam Removal Strategy at American Rivers, where he helps leads national dam removal and dam safety policy and practice work. Trained as a fluvial geomorphologist and water resources engineer, he specializes in river habitat restoration and restoration program building. Brian has helped train hundreds of practitioners around the country to manage dam removal projects and has facilitated more than a dozen workshops to help states build dam removal programs. Prior to working at American Rivers, he was the River Restoration Scientist at the Massachusetts Riverways Program, where he helped guide the development of the state’s River Restoration Priority Project Program. He previously coordinated Trout Unlimited’s Small Dams Program, which worked closely with American Rivers to remove obsolete dams. He has an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (hydrology) and an M.S. in Geography (fluvial geomorphology) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a B.A. in Geography from Dartmouth College.