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Listening In On Levee Setbacks
IRIS researchers are tuning in to how riverine infrastructure shapes the landscape–and soundscape–of ecosystems. As part of a NASA-funded research effort, assistant professor Charles van Rees and his research team have deployed automated recording units, or ARUs, across study sites on the Missouri River to listen in on the local wildlife with the help of […]
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Natural Infrastructure Fellow Aurora Fowler on Freshwater, Field Work and Frogs
For Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellow Aurora Fowler, field work is a way to understand how ecosystems respond to change on the ground–and in the mud. During her six weeks living out of a camper along the lower Missouri River this summer, she investigated the froggy details of a region shaped by decades of levees, flood […]
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Modeling levee setbacks to help communities along the Missouri River
Two counties along the Missouri River are taking action to help protect communities from flooding both up and down-river using levee setbacks. Nemaha County, Nebraska and Atchison County, Missouri, are working with the Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, and Nebraska […]
