Community-Featured Users

Emriver users around the world are doing great work in river science and conservation education. Here are a few that we’d like to highlight. If you are an Emriver user and would like to share what you are doing, do contact us!

Our friends at University of Pennsylvania department of Landscape Architecture used their Em4 to develop a Cobble Bell feature to protect a beach and harbor entrance along Lake Ontario in New York. Their project has won two ASLA awards!

CSU Spur is a Colorado State University offering that connects with PreK-12 students, elevates research, and provides services to the community. Their Em3 stream table is featured prominently in their Hydro facility.

The Hydraulic Lab at George Washington University has an Em4 stream table that they use for teaching and research. “We had a great first class with our Em4. It was a hit with the students, best hydraulic lab by a mile. A couple of them thought it was the coolest lab yet at GWU.” -Owen Scholl, High Bay Manager, George Washington University

The Mahseer Trust is a UK Registered Charity set up to conserve mahseer (in the carp family) as flagship species, to draw awareness and greater environmental stewardship to rivers throughout the mahseer range countries of south and south-east Asia. They lend out their Em2 stream table to organizations across southern India.

The Vermont Agencies of Natural Resources, in partnership with the Vermont Agency of Transportation, developed the Rivers and Roads Program using the Emriver Em2 stream table to explain how rivers work and how to design, construct, and maintain roads and bridges to create greater river stability and more flood-resilient transportation infrastructure.

• • Read the Case Study
  • See the Training packet courtesy of Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
  • Watch the Video about the program

Japan has three Em2s in public settings: The Hamamatsu Science Center, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, and Izu Peninsula Geopark, one of dozens in the Japan Geopark Network.

The Vermont Institute of Natural Science has an Em2 stream table available for rent.

“The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation’s Rivers Program has now had the EmRiver Stream Table for almost 15 years, and it remains one of our top teaching tools for both professional and lay-person trainings.  The Rivers Program supports 5 stream tables used around the state as part of our education and outreach work.” -Stacy Pomeroy, River Resource Scientist with VT River Program

“I had the privilege of attending Winona State University where we had multiple stream tables and a large flume. These tools provided me a major advantage as a geoscience student, but they also played a key role in our department’s community education and outreach efforts.” – Sadie Neuman, Winona State University graduate.

“The Em2 River Model is an essential part of RiverLink’s environmental education programs, helping us bring the river into classrooms across Western North Carolina. By modeling erosion, riparian buffers, and flood mitigation, students can see and test real-world processes firsthand – transforming abstract watershed concepts into meaningful, hands-on learning experiences.” – Justin Young, Education Director at Riverlink

Millersville University’s Department of Earth Science is a big user of their decked-out Em4.

The Environmental Engineering program at Juniata College in Huntington, PA has both an Em4 and an Emflume1.5!

The WATER Institute at St. Louis University has one of the very first Em4 stream tables!