Navigation Improvements & Tributary Impacts

USGS Science

Explore our science through the websites listed below. Project Names link to the website. Websites listed on this page are updated quarterly.

Project Name Primary Investigator Science Center
2020 Systemic Land Cover/Land Use Aerial Imagery Acquisition, Image Interpretation, and Spatial Data Products for the Upper Mississippi River System

Jennifer Dieck

Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

Bathymetric data for the Upper Mississippi River System

Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

Future of Aquatic Flows in the South Central U.S.: Toward Sustainable Water Management in the Mississippi River Basin

Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in Deltas and Coastal Wetlands

Gregg Snedden, Ph.D.

Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

Mississippi River Special Topic

JC Nelson

Midcontinent Region

Movement Patterns of Native Mussels in the Upper Mississippi River: Response to Water Level Management

Teresa Newton, Ph.D.

Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

Streamflow Alteration Assessments to Support Bay and Estuary Restoration in Gulf States

Kirk Rodgers, Ph.D. ; Rodney Knight

Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center

Surface Water Hydrology and Nitrate Dynamics in Delta Islands of Prograding Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana

Gregg Snedden, Ph.D.

Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

Systematic Analysis of Hydrogeomorphic Influences on Native Freshwater Mussels

Teresa Newton, Ph.D.

Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

The Gulf of Mexico Water Dashboard: Cross-Center Collaboration Brings Real-time, USGS Water Data to the Gulf Coast through a Spatially Enabled Mapping Application

Craig Conzelmann ; Daniel Pearson

Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program Long Term Resource Monitoring

Kathi Jo Jankowski

Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center