Special publication: To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the MRRC a series of invited speakers have synthesized the current and potential future state of the upper Mississippi River ecosystem. These presentations will be published in a special issue of the journal Hydrobiologia. Pre-publication orders of this special issue $64.50 per copy are currently being accepted with pre-registration or by mail. Please make checks payable to the MRRC and mail to:

Mississippi River Research Consortium

c/o Dr. Neal Mundahl
Department of Biology 
Winona State University 
P.O. Box 5838 
Winona, Minnesota 55987 

2010 Keynote Speaker

Dr. Paul A. Bukaveckas

Dr. Paul Bukaveckas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Virginia Commonwealth University and holds a joint appointment with the Center for Environmental Studies.   He received his PhD from Indiana University in 1989 and a Bachelor of Science degree from DePaul University in 1981.   His area of expertise is Ecosystems Ecology with a focus on biogeochemical cycles and food web dynamics in aquatic environments.   His research focuses on plankton communities in rivers, impoundments, lakes and estuaries.   He has conducted field investigations in the Midwestern, Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States as well as in Eastern Europe and Western Australia.   He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Gledden Senior Fellowship awarded by the Government of Australia.   Publications arising from this work include 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and two book chapters.   He is the recent author of the chapter on Rivers for the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters.   Current work focuses on studies of algal blooms in rivers and estuaries and their effects on higher trophic levels.  

Welcome to the Mississippi River Research Consortium (MRRC) homepage.  MRRC is a private, non-profit organization supported by its members and by cooperating agencies, institutions, and corporations. Membership is open to all interested parties.  MRRC members are scientists, river managers, teachers, students, and individuals from private business and the general public who want to encourage both pure and applied research on the water and land resources of the Mississippi River and its watershed. 

Other purposes of the organization include supporting organized research effort on the Mississippi River, establishing and encouraging communication among river scientists, the wider scientific community, and the public, encouraging cooperation among institutions (sharing of facilities,etc.), functioning as an advisory group, and providing an annual meeting where research results can be presented, common problems can be discussed, information can be disseminated, and river researchers can become acquainted with one another. 

A proceedings of the annual meeting containing abstracts of presentations are published each year.  The annual meeting usually occurs in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday and Friday of the third or fourth week in April.

A Call for Papers is issued in November and registration materials and a Meeting Program are distributed in March.  Questions can be addressed to any one of the four officers on the Board. 

Students, please note three (3) student travel scholarships ($200 each) are available for the 2010 conference. Students interested in competing for one of these scholarships should submit a scholarship application. Application deadline: February 19, 2010.

President Dr. Greg G. Sass Illinois Natural History Survey 704 North Schrader Avenue Havana, Illinois  62644 Phone: (309) 543-6000 email: ggsass@illinois.edu	Vice President Dr. Jeff Houser USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center 2630 Fanta Reed Road La Crosse, WI 54603 Phone: (319)384-0611 email: jhouser@usgs.gov
Treasurer Dr. Neal Mundahl Department of Biology  Winona State University  P.O. Box 5838  Winona, Minnesota 55987  email: nmundahl@winona.edu	Secretary Dr. Susan Romano Department of Biological Sciences Western Illinois University-Quad Cities Phone: (309) 298-1752 email: S-Romano2@wiu.edu

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