By mober079 The PulseMarch 2, 2020

A Mini-Mississippi River May Help Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast

Researcher putting dye into the Mini-Mississippi River to study water flows round a proposed diversion. — A Mini-Mississippi River May Help Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/climate/louisiana-mississippi-river-model.html?te=1&nl=climate-fwd:&emc=edit_clim_20200226&campaign_id=54&instance_id=16305&segment_id=21646&user_id=e3258b096f13b881d48f8fbef8cf0f1e&regi_id=11191408720200226

Laboratory model of the lower Mississippi River tests plans for sediment diversion, Gulf Coast restoration.

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Civil Engineering Lower Mississippi River Planning / Policy Research

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Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue 24 | Layers

The cover image for this issue is a meditation on layers. In its two-dimensional form, it reveals dark but reflective water, distinct aquatic vegetation,...

By Laurie Moberg, Editor

Feature (Peer Review)

The Return of Pa’ashi: Colonial Unknowing and California’s Tulare Lake

The early morning sun shone off the water. I parked at the “Flooding Ahead” sign and walked past deep gouges in the ground. The...

By Vivian Underhill

Feature

Layers in the Landscape: A Floodplain Forest and the People Who Have Inhabited It

The Mississippi River in the Twin Cities region is a truly remarkable landscape corridor. It serves as part of an important flyway for North...

By Patrick Nunnally

Feature

Creating Change through Community-Engaged Research: An Open Rivers Collection

“Why are you doing this work?” P’Ong’s question caught me a bit by surprise. I was sitting with P’Ong on a thin bamboo mat...

By Laurie Moberg

Geographies

Morning on Chesapeake

I slide my kayak into the tranquil waters of the Chesapeake Bay as the first glow of sunrise is appearing behind me in the...

By Jay Bell

In Review

Seals, Swimmers, Bat Carers

Author Harry Saddler’s book on Melbourne’s Yarra River is an engaging account of his years exploring its native species and human communities. He acknowledges...

By Ian A. Wright

Perspectives

Resistance as Grounds for Futurity: Placemaking and Unsettling through #StopLine3

Protecting the water is protecting life. Two-spirit Anishinaabe activist Taysha Martineau thus insists that Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline “should scare you so...

By Isabel Huot-Link

Primary Sources

Mapping Engagement: A Dive into the University’s Community-Engaged Partnerships

The University of Minnesota is working to share community-based academic projects and partnerships involving water resources—as well as other social and environmental concerns—as a...

By Amber Cameron and John Craven

Teaching and Practice

The River at our Doorstep: Student Projects Tell Stories of the Mississippi River

The Mississippi River, by all accounts one of the great rivers of the world, flows through the middle of the campus of the University...

By Donal Couch, Nichole Jacquez, Hope Werstler, Caitlyn Barrett, Jenna Duncan, Rianna Knoll, and Aryana Becchetti

More Stories

Mississippi River Network members on a field trip walking across the newly opened Harahan Bridge in Memphis crossing the Mississippi River. Photo credit: Rebeca Bell. Courtesy Bluestem Communications.

Mississippi River Network: Headwaters to Gulf

How can dozens or even hundreds of organizations working on the Mississippi River be harnessed into a powerful body that has demonstrable influence in our nation’s capital, in capitals of states along the river, and in other places where the health of the river is decided?