NGRREC Seminar Series The Changing Water Quality of the Mississippi River Matthew Young, John Sloan and Miles Corcoran 3 p.m. Wednesday, August 30 Riverview Conference Room NGRREC Jerry F. Costello Confluence Field Station One Confluence Way, East Alton, Illinois This seminar is open to the public, please check in at the NGRREC front desk on arrival. NGRREC Host: Dr. Anthony Dell ([email protected]) Please email the NGRREC host to schedule a meeting with the speaker. Seminar abstract: The Mississippi River has undergone massive transformation in the last hundred years including channelization for navigation, separation from its floodplain, and bearing the ever increasing sediment and nutrient load from agricultural runoff. The National Great Rivers Research and Education Center studies the ecology of the Mississippi River in order to work towards a more sustainable river system. The Great Rivers Ecological Observatory Network (GREON) and Great Lakes to Gulf (GLTG) are two water quality data systems NGRREC has developed to monitor and aggregate water quality data in the Mississippi River Basin. Nitrate, chlorophyll, and suspended sediment are three of the most significant water quality variables in the Mississippi River that have shown increasing trends with historic river modification. This presentation will reveal how these three main variables are measured by river scientists in the Mississippi River, what their historic and current trends are using GREON, GLTG, and other online sources, and also describe what the implications are for the future of the river.

NGRREC Seminar Series...Aug 30, 2017 · studies the ecology of the Mississippi River in order to work towards a more sustainable river system. The Great Rivers Ecological Observatory

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NGRREC Seminar Series

The Changing Water Quality of theMississippi River

Matthew Young, John Sloan and Miles Corcoran

3 p.m. Wednesday, August 30Riverview Conference Room

NGRREC Jerry F. Costello Confluence Field Station One Confluence Way, East Alton, Illinois

This seminar is open to the public, please check in at the NGRREC front desk on arrival.

NGRREC Host: Dr. Anthony Dell ([email protected])Please email the NGRREC host to schedule a meeting with the speaker.

Seminar abstract: The Mississippi River has undergone massive transformation in the last hundred years including channelization for navigation, separation from its floodplain, and bearing the ever increasing sediment and nutrient load from

agricultural runoff. The National Great Rivers Research and Education Center studies the ecology of the Mississippi River in order to work towards a more sustainable river system. The Great Rivers Ecological Observatory Network (GREON) and Great Lakes to Gulf (GLTG) are two water quality data systems NGRREC has developed to monitor and aggregate water quality data in the Mississippi River Basin. Nitrate, chlorophyll, and suspended sediment are three of the most significant water quality variables in the Mississippi River that have

shown increasing trends with historic river modification. This presentation will reveal how these three main variables are measured by river scientists in the Mississippi River, what their historic and current trends are using GREON, GLTG, and other online sources, and also describe what the implications are for the future of the river.