


Birds Point flood coverage, blowing a fuse.
Today the receding Mississippi and Big Muddy River let me drive to work without a long detour. My neighbors are filling demolition dumpsters with flood damaged stuff. Flooding causes terrible human suffering and reporters rightly cover that. Compelling stories, but...
Blowing up Birds Point; interview with Jon Remo.
Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway operation, from undated Mississippi River Commission report. Today I interviewed Jonathan Remo, a geoscientist at SIU-Carbondale. He and colleague Nicholas Pinter are accomplished experts on big river flooding and flood control...
SIUC wins NSF grant to train watershed scientists
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...