/tags/watersheds Watersheds en-US Copyright © 2024 ÍâÍřĚěĚĂ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:32:23 GMT /education/2022-03-30/siue-researchers-experimenting-with-ways-to-better-support-minority-grad-students The university received about $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to study sustainable watersheds and implement different ways to support graduate students involved in the research. Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:32:23 GMT /education/2022-03-30/siue-researchers-experimenting-with-ways-to-better-support-minority-grad-students Eric Schmid /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2020-08-27/new-childrens-book-highlights-early-20th-century-riverboat-culture In her new children’s book "Ruth’s River Dreams," historian Elizabeth A. Pickard re-imagines the life of river historian and educator Ruth Ferris, who lived from 1891–1993. Ferris made it her life’s work to study Missouri’s waterways — particularly the Mississippi River. Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:15:57 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2020-08-27/new-childrens-book-highlights-early-20th-century-riverboat-culture Emily Woodbury /health-science-environment/2019-10-17/midwestern-farm-runoff-creates-headache-for-louisiana-shrimpers It’s only midmorning, but shrimper Thomas Olander is already calling it quits for the day in a small bayou in St. Mary Parish, on the central Louisiana… Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:07:51 GMT /health-science-environment/2019-10-17/midwestern-farm-runoff-creates-headache-for-louisiana-shrimpers Travis Lux | New Orleans Public Radio /health-science-environment/2018-07-26/after-33-sleepless-hours-canoe-team-shatters-missouri-river-340-record A team of three Missourians and two Texans this week paddled nearly 33 straight hours to shatter a course record in an annual canoe-and-kayak race across… Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:05:37 GMT /health-science-environment/2018-07-26/after-33-sleepless-hours-canoe-team-shatters-missouri-river-340-record Kae M. Petrin