“From Sea to Source” is an international program reminding us that rivers are, at a basic level, means of transporting materials to the ocean. “Materials” in this case means fish, which are easily overshadowed by all of our other river concerns.
As the editors put this issue on “Water @ UMN” together, we realized that the breadth, complexity, and variety of water-related work at the University of Minnesota could never be encompassed in a few articles. Accordingly, we sent a prompt out as widely as we could, asking water scholars to tell us, in a few paragraphs, what it was about their work that they were most excited about. The short pieces that follow contain some of their responses…