Cara Bergscheider leaves LRRD.

Mar 28, 2010

In late January Cara Bergschneider left LRRD to work for the NRCS in southern Illinois.  We miss her very much.  She’s one of a kind.

 When I decided to expand LRRD from a home-based business in 2007, I knew I’d need an extraordinary person to handle a...

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Jesse Riechman leaves LRRD.

Mar 3, 2010

I hired Jesse Riechman as a prototyper in late summer of 2007 as LRRD outgrew my home office.  Jesse left us last November to become a full time grad student in SIUC’s Forestry program. Jesse had many skills, from fixing motorcycles to deftly dropping 250-pound...

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SIUC wins NSF grant to train watershed scientists

Aug 26, 2009

Several of our friends and collaborators at SIUC have been awarded $3.2 million by the NSF IGERT program to develop an elite watershed science and policy program. Nicholas Pinter is leading the effort, and our collaborators Matt Whiles, Lizette Chevalier, John...

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Mad science at LRRD.

Aug 21, 2009

So much LRRD news to report, but I’ve been too busy to blog. Some interesting work from this week: We’re designing a small 2D flume. To do things like this. Here’s a Google SketchUp excerpt. And a photo of Jesse making inserts for the Emriver Em2 to...

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Cameron Bencini joins LRRD.

Jun 19, 2009

Cameron Bencini had a great first day at LRRD as our new summer intern. Cameron just graduated from SIUC with a degree in civil engineering, and has been accepted in the graduate program there for the fall. Today he was clearly drawn to the Emriver Em2 model, and...

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