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 A Strategy for the Control of the Japanese Beetle Utilizing an Autonomous Solar-Powered Dessication Unit (KB)
Advisor: Dr. Rick Butgess, Lewis & Clark Community College; Intern: Marty Armstead - Lewis & Clark Community College - associates degree, 2005 and continuing studies in the CAD drafting program - Greenville College - bachelors degree, 2007  

Fish Passage Design and Monitoring at Melvin Price Locks and Dam (KB)
Advisor: Ms. Terri Allen United States Army Corps of Engineers; Intern: Emily Augustyniak - concentration in Marine Biology, mentored by an aquatic biologist of the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis

Molecular Comparison of Fungal Communities Associated with Trillium Recurvatum on Two Sites In a Mississioppi River Bluff Forest (MB)
Advisor: Drs. Kelly Barry and Tom Fowler, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Intern: Douglas Basso - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - graduate studying biological science with a focus on medical science

Survey and Analysis of Industrial Water Demand and Supply at the Tri-cCity Port District  (MB)
Advisor: Dr. Jianpeng Zhoul, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Intern: Daniel Bilbrey - Lincoln Land Community College - associates in science - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - undergraduate student in civil engineering

Damage Assessment of Flooded Cabins and Remapping of Existing infrastructures in the Flood Zones of Jersey County in Illinois ( )
Advisor: Mr. Mike Prough, Jersey County Administration Coordinator; Intern: Kusumaker Bhusal - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - pursuing masters degree in geography with a focus on GIS

Madiison County Stormwater Office: Further Development and Implementation (KB)
Advisor: Mr. Frank Miles, Madison County Planning & Development Dept; Intern: Sarah Carney - Lewis & Clark Community College - associates in science - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - undergraduate studying natural resources and environmental science with a focus on public education 

Landscape Legacies: Environmental Impacts of Historical Settlements (MB)
Advisors: Ms. Michelle Berg Vogel, McCully Heritage Project; Intern: Spencer Clark - Truman State University - undergraduate student pursuing bachelors in biology with an emphasis in medicine.   

A Comparative Approach to Determine Factors Supporting or Limiting Submersed Aquatic Vegetation in the Illinois River (MB)
Advisors: Dr. Greg Sass, Illinois Natural History Survey; Intern: Thad Cook - Western Illinois University - undergraduate student - large-river ecologist working at the INHS River Biological Station in Havana, Illinois 

Photographic Changes in Land Use/Land Cover in the Pool 13 Floodplain Since the Land Acquisition for the Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project  (MB)
Advisor: Mr. Joseph Lundh, United States Army Corps of Engineers; Intern: Allison Dehnel - University of Illinois - undergraduate student majoring in integrative biology

Emergency Prepardedness for Illinois Rivers: A Govermental Affair (MB)
Advisors: Mr. Marc Miller, Illinois Lieutenant Governor's Office; Intern: Mallory Eschbach - University of Illinois - undergraduate student 

Rivers Project Trail Plan (KB)
Advisor: Mr. Phil Manhart, Unites States Army Corps of Engineers; Intern: Benjamin Greeling - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - bachelor of liberal studies - pursuing master degree

Environmental Education: Promoting kasyno Public Awareness and Understanding of Great Rivers and Their Environments (MB)
Advisors: Ms. Kimberly Rea, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Jessica Pascoe, NGRREC; Intern: Jessica Harder - Alton High School - graduate - University-Rolla - undergraduate in engineering

Promotion of Eco-Tourism through the Science and Engineering of a Segway
Advisor: Ms. Janet Mifflin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Great Rivers Museum; Intern: Melissa Hall - University of Missouri - graduate, fisheries and wildlife

Temporal and Spacial Patterns of Asiatic Honeysuckle Invasion
Advisor: Dr. Kurt Schultz, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Intern: David Harroun 

Development of an Environmentally Benign Soybeam Oil-Based Workpart Cleaning System
Advisor: Dr. Kevin Hubbard, SIAM Center, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Intern: Laura Hemker - Southern Illinois University - undergraduate, School of Engineering

Gulf Region South Contracting Division Files
Advisor: Mr. Chris Pulliam, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Intern: Anaka Hennings - Wesleyan University - undergraduate in Latin American studies

Spatial Variations in Stream Water Methyl-Mercury Concentrations in Relation to the Landscape Characteristics of the Piasa Creek Watershed
Advisor: Dr. Robert Hudson, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana; Intern: Christopher Ivanovich

Patterns of Native and Exotic Plant Diversity in Fragmented Bluff Forest: A Test of the Biotic Resistance Hypothesis
Advisor: Dr. Peter Minchin, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Intern: Jerrod Looft - Southern Illinois University Carbondale - major in zoology, minor in chemistry 

If We Build It, Will They Leave? Evaluating Exotic Species Assemblages Across a Chronosequence of Restored Floodplain Forests
Advisor: Dr. Loretta Battaglia, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Intern: Craig McLane - Brigham Young University - bachelor in biology - Southern Illinois University Carbondale - pursuing master degree in plant biology 

Interpreting the Palisades Preserve
Advisor: Ms. Jessica Pascoe, National Great Rivers Research and Education Center; Intern: Lisa Mosby - master in history-museum studies - Lewis and Clark Community College - associate in science - University of Illinois - pursuing bachelor

Assessing Batrachonchytrium Dendrobatidis Infection Levels in the Amphibian Communities in Upland and Lowland Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems of Northern Calhoun County, Illinois
Advisor: Dr. Chad Montgomery, Truman State University; Intern: Peter Muelleman - Truman State University

The Effect of Temperature on Freshwater Hydra
Advisor: Dr. Sara Sawyer, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Intern: Danielle Napier - Southern Illinois University - undergraduate in biological sciences specializing in medical science

Economic Impacts of Lock Closures
Advisor: Mr. Andy Schimpf, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Intern: Brittany Poletti - University of Illinois - undergraduate of agriculture and journalism, focus on law and policy

A Multivariate Variate Habitat Model for the State Threatened Cerulean Warbler and Other Neotropical Migrant Songbirds in Southwestern Illinois
Advisors: Drs. Richard Essner and Peter Minchin, Southern Illinois University; Intern: Lane Richter - Southern Illinois University - bachelor in ecology, evolution and the environment - grad student of environmental science

Determining the Effects of Alliaria petiolata (Garlic Mustard) on Phosphorous and Micronutrient Uptake in Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple) and Acer rubrum (Red Maple) Due to the Disruption of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Associations, and Continued A. petiolatea Site distribution, Site Monitoring, and Long-Term Growth Effects on A. saccharum and A. rubrum
Advisor: Mr. Brian Ferguson, Lewis and Clark Community College; Intern: Emily Schall - St. Louis University - undergraduate, health information management

Assessing the Status of River Education in Illinois Secondary Schools Situated Along the Mississippi River
Advisor: Dr. Elaine AbuScharbain, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Intern: Laura Schmidt - Southern Illinois University - undergraduate, environmental education

Status of the Chinese Mystery Snail
Advisor: Dr. Paul Brunkow, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Intern: Mary Sharp - Southern Illinois university Edwardsville - undergrad pursuing master's in zoology

Monitoring Nutrient Dynamics in a Restored Wetland Along the Illinois River
Advisor: Dr. Sherri Morris, Bradley University; Intern: Michael Sowa - Bradley University - undergraduate in biology

Long-Term Monitoring of Floodplain Forest Restoration at Wightman Lake (MB)
Advisor: Dr. Lyle Guyon, NGRREC; Intern: Alex Sutton - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - under graduate student of Ecology, Evolution and Environment

Water Quality Analysis of Selected Tributaries Within the Piasa Creek Watershed
Advisor: Dr. Alan Bruha, Lewis and Clark Community College; Intern: Megan Sutton - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - undergraduate, medical technology