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, and are developing a larger moveable bed river model, 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 Bicyclng magazine
and worked for BMW motorcycles. Here he works on the first Emriver model to ship from our new place.
Geoscientst Cara Bergschneider and founder Steve Gough.
Cara grew up in Springfield, Illinois, did some time here in Carbondale at SIUC, and then went to Virginia Tech. She came to LRRD very highly recommended, and has lived up to her reputation.
Dayna Conner, our business director, directing a jigsaw.
Dayna's been active in southern Illinois as an environmental educator and promoter of sustainable local agriculture since 1993. She's also served as board chair for Carbondale's wonderful Neighborhood Co-op Grocery.