Book chapter
Upper Mississippi River Basin Envirohydrologic Observatory
World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009, pp.1-10
2009
DOI: 10.1061/41036(342)323
Abstract
The University of Iowa's IIHR — Hydroscience & Engineering is creating an envirohydrologic observatory on Pool 16 of the Upper Mississippi River. Centered at the Lucille A. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station (LACMRERS), the observatory's sensor network will collect highly time resolved data to support modeling efforts for water quality and watershed process studies. Coupling sensor data with models will enable testing of existing hypotheses and will generate new hypotheses focused on water quality, nutrient, and sediment fluxes as they relate to food webs containing freshwater mussels and microbes. One hypothesis currently under investigation is that intense deposition of particulate organic matter from extreme flooding alters these food webs through physical and chemical means.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Upper Mississippi River Basin Envirohydrologic Observatory
- Creators
- Jeremy BrilJ. V LoperfidoCraig JustNathan Young
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009, pp.1-10
- DOI
- 10.1061/41036(342)323
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2009
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; IIHR--Hydroscience and Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984197107802771
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