Research activites
A page within River Studies Center
New Contributions from the UWL River Studies Center
- James Peirce, Gregory Sandland, David Schumann, Hannah Thompson, and Richard Erickson (2023). Using a coupled integral projection model to investigate interspecific competition during an invasion: an application to silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum). Letters in Biomathematics, Vol. 10(1): 175-184.
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Examples of previous and ongoing research projects:
- Landscape factors affecting sensitivity of aquatic ecosystems to atmospheric deposition of mercury and heavy metals.
- Biogeochemistry of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries.
- Ecology of extreme aquatic environments.
- Effects of nitrogen deposition on alpine lakes.
- Direct and indirect of invasive species in the Upper Mississippi River and its floodplain.
- Oral histories from the Upper Mississippi River region.
- Comparative history of hydrological development of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers.
- Ecological restoration of mercury-contaminated landscapes.
- Wetland delineation.
- Water quality in the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries.
- Amphibian deformations.
- Using GIS technology to describe urban sprawl and landscape patterns.
- Distribution abundance of benthic invertebrates, algae, bacteria, aquatic macrophytes, zooplankton and fish in the Upper Mississippi River.
- Ecological effects of landscape transformation and watershed disturbance on lotic communities.
- Contamination, bioaccumulation, and biogeochemistry of mercury and other potentially toxic metals in aquatic ecosystems.
- Toxicant effects on structure and function of aquatic communities and behavior of fish and invertebrates.
- Applications of molecular techniques to studying aquatic microbial processes.
- Effects of commercial and recreational navigation on the resuspension and transport of sediments in the Upper Mississippi River.
- Ecology and pathogenesis of fish parasites.
- Effects of bacterial and viral pathogens on feral and hatchery fish.
- Environmental, social and cultural history of the Upper Mississippi River valley.
