![Castelhanos from above. Image courtesy of Fran and Lau Pereira Da Silva.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Castelhanos-from-above.jpg?fit=330%2C248&ssl=1)
![Castelhanos from above. Image courtesy of Fran and Lau Pereira Da Silva.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Castelhanos-from-above.jpg?fit=330%2C248&ssl=1)
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Reflecting On Brackish Waters
![Fig. 2, Singing in the Gallery (2011) with the last of the great traveller singers: Sheila Stewart (center in black) and Elizabeth Stewart (right in purple), and the author (left). Photographer Andy McGregor, courtesy of Steven Anderson.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Arthur-Watson-Fig-2-1-e1645570304771.jpeg?fit=330%2C175&ssl=1)
Between Two Rivers: Two Ballads from a Scots Traveller Family
![Chaudière Falls in Ottawa in June, as seen during a hot air balloon ride. Image via Flickr user Shanta. (CC-BY-2.0)](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ottawa_Chaudiere_Falls-e1645655078248.jpg?fit=330%2C191&ssl=1)
The River and The Bridge
![Santa Monica Pier by Omar Prestwich.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/omar-prestwich-stamonicapier-unsplash-scaled-e1636666441670.jpg?fit=330%2C192&ssl=1)
Introduction to Issue Nineteen
The articles for this issue started to come together in the midst of the global pandemic, as our usual practices were upended, our concerns reprioritized, our social lives reorganized and often curtailed, our lives—both private and public—in a tumult. Even now, as we’ve moved past the initial phases of crisis and more of us have moved back into shared workspaces and participated in social gatherings, many uncertainties remain. As I read the early drafts of these thoughtful articles, I found them pulling me into a space for reflection…
![Daniela Daniele took this picture to show that her research interests began with the canal that flows behind her apartment. This semester she’s defending her master’s thesis on the historical ecology of the Miami River. Image courtesy of Daniela Daniele.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image2-scaled-e1706760857565.jpg?fit=330%2C186&ssl=1)
Reflections on Negotiating the Science-Society Relationship Together
By The Tropical Rivers Lab. At the Tropical Rivers Lab at Florida International University, rivers have convened us to think deeply about how to best understand them and apply that understanding towards their conservation and sustainable management. We explore different aspects of south Florida ecosystems, Amazonian riverscapes, and East African waters, with collaborations across the tropics. When we decide “how” to best understand rivers, it is not just about the scientific questions we ask, but also about where those questions come from, how we relate to them, and ultimately, how these questions mediate our role with society…
![A student researcher on the Juneau Icefield navigates between crevasses on the Llewellyn Glacier in northern British Columbia, Canada. Lingít Aaní, Tlingit traditional lands is a large but sparsely populated nation in this part of Alaska. Icefields are expanses of glacial ice flowing in multiple directions. Image by Allen Pope, NSIDC (CC BY 2.0).](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/llewellyn-glacier-nsidc-allen-pope-cc-by-2.0-e1636490803490.jpg?fit=330%2C190&ssl=1)
Future Rivers of the Anthropocene
One meaning of the word Tlingit is “people of the tides.” Immediately, this identification with tides introduces a palpable experience of the aquatic as well as a keen sense of place. It is a universal truth that the human animal has co-evolved over millennia with water or the lack of it, developing nuanced, sophisticated and intimate water knowledges. However, there is little in the anthropological or geographical record that showcases contemporary Indigenous societies upholding customary laws concerning their relationship with water, and more precisely how this dictates their philosophy of place…
![Jean Bonneville and Joanne Richardson at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure in spring 1992. Image courtesy of John and Alta Fossum.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/img019-e1636729670591.jpg?fit=330%2C178&ssl=1)
Meeting the Atchafalaya
The Mississippi River flows mostly south from its most northern reaches in Minnesota through the heartland of the United States down to Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico, collecting and distributing commerce and culture with a multitude of tributaries and distributaries. The river itself is dynamic and changeable, flooding, avulsing, and remodeling its banks and channels continuously. Tentatively held in place with levees, dams, and floodways, this dynamic river is held somewhat in check, allowing towns and farms to reach right to the river’s edge, and providing some continuity and control for navigation of the famous river barges that carry a wealth of commodities up and down the river…
![A sensor station overlooking the Hackensack River. Image courtesy of Evelyn Dsouza.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Image-1-scaled-e1635883117372.jpg?fit=330%2C203&ssl=1)
A Place in Flux: Memory and Futurity in the Hackensack Meadowlands
From the middle of the Hackensack River, sweltering in the heat of an early summer day, I peered up at the New Jersey Turnpike from my seat on the pontoon boat. I usually see this place from the view of my own car—or occasionally, the train, from which an expansive view of the estuary is even easier to take in: billowing stands of common reed (Phragmites), glistening mudflats at certain times of the day, and looming cityscapes on the horizon. I’d never before found myself in the landscape quite like this, from the view of the water…
![Image by Amy Humphries on Unsplash.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/amy-humphries-hpyO24WMSLE-unsplash-scaled-e1636568936251.jpg?fit=330%2C183&ssl=1)
On Water, Equity, and Justice
This fall, I asked these fellows to contribute to this In Review column for Open Rivers by sharing what they are currently reading and why it matters to them. Their responses, like our meetings, offer a robust and varied collection of resources that will, I hope, enrich your own reading lists. Enjoy…