In September 2007, after 17 years of work based in home offices in Champaign, Illinois, St. Louis, and southern Illinois, we moved into a building on
East Main in Carbondale, Illinois.
We'll continue our outstanding river restoration and research work, but believe we can best help river
ecosystems through education, so we're focusing on the
Emriver model, our video, and other tools to show how rivers and river ecosystems work. We are truly an R&D group, in the last year we developed our large Emriver Em4 moveable bed river model and are now expanding our video and visualization work and developing
other science teaching models and methods.
Steve's blog "Riparian Rap" documents our daily challenges and lives in southern Illinois.
- Our new home at 514 East Main in Carbondale. That's Steve's wife Kate riding one of our offical shop bikes.
- Our prototyper Jesse Riechman is a mechanical wizard and Carbondale native who's written for Bicycling magazine
and worked for BMW motorcycles. Here he works on the first Emriver model to ship from our new place.
- Meriam Lahlou became our Business Manager in November 2009. Originally from Morocco, Meriam came to the US to study, eventually earning an MBA and working for Ernst and Young LLP. Meriam moved to Carbondale with her family in 2000. Fluent in English, French, Arabic, and Italian, Meriam teaches French in both private sessions and in two public schools. As a teacher, Meriam was attracted to LRRD’s strong commitment to education, and we’re very happy to have her business and language skills. And also her sharp wit, intellect, and sunny disposition! Meriam has two beautiful kids, Radia and Adam.