UMESC Projects on the Upper Mssissippi River

UMESC Projects on the Upper Mississippi River

Aquatic Sciences
Location	Principal Investigator	Project Title
Upper Mississippi River Pools 4, 8, 13, 16, 26, Open River, and La Grange		Complete and summarize annual increments of monitoring data for fish sampling on the Upper Mississippi River System
Upper Mississippi River	Steven Gutreuter	Assessment of potential effects of increased commercial navigation on the fishes of the Upper Mississippi River System
Upper Mississippi River Pool 5	Barry Johnson	Assessment of the biological effects of the Finger Lakes Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project: Responses of fish and aquatic invertebrates
Upper Mississippi River	Brent Knights	Habitat use and movement of lake sturgeon in the Upper Mississippi River: Effects of navigation
Upper Mississippi River Pools 4, 8, 13, 26, Open River, and La Grange		Spatial analysis of fish monitoring data collected by active gear
Upper Mississippi River	Brian Ickes	Integrated analysis of fish monitoring data
Upper Mississippi River		Fish passage through dams on the Upper Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi River Pool 7	Steven Zigler	Ecological interactions between aquatic macrophytes and fish in Lake Onalaska, Pool 7, Upper Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi River Pools 7 and 8		Relations among flow, water depth, sediment texture, and fingernail clams
Upper Mississippi River Pool 8	William Richardson	Genetic characterization of the endangered mussel Lampsilis higginsi
Upper Mississippi River	Michelle Bartsch	Sediment-contaminant database for the Upper Mississippi River System
Upper Mississippi River		Development of regional nutrient criteria for the Upper Mississippi River Basin and US Environmental Protection Agency Region 5
Upper Mississippi River Pool 8	Teresa Newton	Landscape analysis of freshwater mussels in the Upper Mississippi River System
Upper Mississippi River Pool 8	William Richardson	Denitrification and sediment ammonia in the Upper Mississippi River

Terrestrial Sciences
Location	Principal Investigator	Project Title
Upper Mississippi River Pool 8	Thomas Custer	Contaminants in tree swallows in relation to water level management
Upper Mississippi River	Kevin Kenow	Abundance and distribution of plant foods used by migratory waterfowl on selected pools of the Upper Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi River Pools 4, 8, and 13	Eileen Kirsch	Community characteristics of breeding passerine birds in relation to riverine habitats on selected reaches of the Upper Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi River Pools 7, 8, 9, and 11	Eileen Kirsch	Importance of wet meadows to grassland birds in the Upper Midwest
Upper Mississippi River	Melinda Knutson	Abundance, diversity, and productivity of songbirds nesting in upland and floodplain forests of the Upper Mississippi River Basin

Ecosystems / Habitats
Location	Principal Investigator	Project Title
Upper Mississippi River	Steven Gutreuter	Development of models for ecological investigation and management of the Upper Mississippi River System
Upper Mississippi River Pool 5	Barry Johnson	Assessment of the biological effects of the Finger Lakes Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project: Responses of fish and aquatic invertebrates
Upper Mississippi River	Barry Johnson	Evaluation of Water Level Reduction as a Habitat Management Tool for the Upper Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi River	Kenneth Lubinski	Analysis of land cover changes in selected side channels of the Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi River	Kenneth Lubinski	Ecocriteria to measure the health of the Upper Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi River	Kenneth Lubinski	Ecological Status and Trends in the Upper Mississippi River System (1998)
Upper Mississippi River		Obtain and summarize five annual increments of limnological monitoring data for selected reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System
Upper Mississippi River		The limnology and ecology of off-channel areas in the Upper Mississippi River System
Upper Mississippi River		Long Term Resource Monitoring Program

Invasive Species
Location	Principal Investigator	Project Title
Upper Mississippi River Pool 8	Michelle Bartsch	Density and size distribution of zebra mussels in the Upper Mississippi River, Pool 8, and effects of predators
Upper Mississippi River and Illinois River		A Biological Synopsis and Risk Assessment of Asian Carps of the Genus Hypophthalmichthys

River Inventory and Monitoring
Location	Principal Investigator	Project Title
Upper Mississippi River		Long Term Resource Monitoring Program

Science Applications to Resource Management
Location	Principal Investigator	Project Title
Upper Mississippi River	Steven Gutreuter	Development of models for ecological investigation and management of the Upper Mississippi River System
Upper Mississippi River	Barry Johnson	Adaptive environmental assessment applied to the Upper Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi River		Evaluation of tools for management of non-indigenous species
Upper Mississippi River		Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge and Illinois River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Decision Support System
Upper Mississippi River		Habitat Needs Assessment for the Upper Mississippi River System

Technical Programs
Location	Principal Investigator	Project Title
Upper Mississippi River	Douglas Olsen	LTRMP Spatial Data Query and Visualizaton Tool