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Mississippi River
Research Consortium
45th Annual Meeting
April 24 - April 26, 2013
The Radisson
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Meeting Announcement and
Call For Papers
Student Travel Scholarship
2013 Proceedings
Registration Information
Please provide your name and affiliation above as you would like to see it on your conference name badge. For example: Nathan R. De Jager, USGS, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Map of the Upper Mississippi River System
Special publication: To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the MRRC a series of invited speakers have synthesized the current and potential future state of the upper Mississippi River ecosystem. These presentations will be published in a special issue of the journal Hydrobiologia. Pre-publication orders of this special issue $64.50 per copy are currently being accepted with pre-registration or by mail. Please make checks payable to the MRRC and mail to:
Mississippi River Research Consortium
c/o Dr. Neal Mundahl
Department of Biology
Winona State University
P.O. Box 5838
Winona, Minnesota 55987
2013 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Walter Dodds
University Distinguished Professor of BiologyKansas State University
Title of Dr. Dodds presentation is
“Understanding freshwaters in the anthropocene: long-term and large-scale approaches”
Walter Dodds, university distinguished professor of biology at Kansas
State University, has studied the effects of nitrogen contamination in
stream waters and the effects stream drying and flooding have on the
habitat and the species that live there. He has more than 130
publications in peer-reviewed literature, including the top journals like
Nature and Science. He also is author of four books including the popular
textbook "Freshwater Ecology" and "Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact and Our Global Environment." He is coordinator of aquatic and
hydrological research at the Konza Prairie Biological Station, and a
co-principal investigator on the Long-Term Ecological Research Grant,
which is funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal is to
describe how fire, grazing and climatic variables are essential factors in
a functioning prairie ecosystem, like Konza Prairie. He also initiated the
Stream Experimental and Observational Network, or STREON, which includes a
national multi-million dollar experiment to assess the effects of chronic
nutrient enrichment on streams. Dodds joined Kansas State in 1990 and was
promoted to full professor in 2002. He was named a university
distinguished professor in 2009. He received a bachelor's degree in
biology and chemistry from the University of Denver in 1980 and a
doctorate in biology from the University of Oregon in 1986.
Purpose and Mission
Welcome to the Mississippi River Research Consortium (MRRC) homepage. MRRC is a private, non-profit organization supported by its members and by cooperating agencies, institutions, and corporations. Membership is open to all interested parties. MRRC members are scientists, river managers, teachers, students, and individuals from private business and the general public who want to encourage both pure and applied research on the water and land resources of the Mississippi River and its watershed.
Other purposes of the organization include supporting organized research effort on the Mississippi River, establishing and encouraging communication among river scientists, the wider scientific community, and the public, encouraging cooperation among institutions (sharing of facilities,etc.), functioning as an advisory group, and providing an annual meeting where research results can be presented, common problems can be discussed, information can be disseminated, and river researchers can become acquainted with one another.
A proceedings of the annual meeting containing abstracts of presentations are published each year. The annual meeting usually occurs in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday and Friday of the third or fourth week in April.
A Call for Papers is issued in November and registration materials and a Meeting Program are distributed in March. Questions can be addressed to any one of the four officers on the Board.
Students, please note three (3) student travel scholarships ($200 each) are available for the 2012 conference. Students interested in competing for one of these scholarships should submit a scholarship application. Application deadline: February 24, 2012.
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2012-2013 Board of Directors
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President Dr. Nathan De Jager |
Vice President Dr. Eric Strauss |
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Treasurer Dr. Neal Mundahl |
Secretary Nerissa Michaels |
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