DNA: Tool for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

By Johanna Mitra, at Stony Brook University.All Photos © Alison M. Jones, unless otherwise noted. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. This NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts student essays; sponsors a forum for our student contributors; and invites upper-level students to propose work focused on …

Factory Farms and Foul Waters

A NextGen Blog post by Marianne Swan, SUNY Oneonta. Photos © Alison M. Jones. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. This NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts students’ essays; sponsors a forum for our student contributors; and invites upper-level students to propose work focused on watershed …

The Mississippi Flyway and Flood Management Conflict

A NextGen Blog post by Johanna Mitra, Stony Brook University. All Photos © Alison M. Jones. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. This NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts students’ essays; sponsors a forum for our student contributors; and invites upper-level students to propose work focused …

A Flood of Climate Injustice

A NextGen Blog by Julia Campbell, UCLA. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. Our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts only student essays; sponsors a forum for its student contributors; and invites student proposals to write on watershed values, threats and solutions. Julia Campbell is a 4th-year …

Water Poverty in America

A NWNL NextGen Blog by Ruby O’Connor, University College Dublin. All Photos © Alison M. Jones. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. Our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts only student essays; sponsors a forum for its student contributors; and invites student proposals to write on watershed …

The Plastic Watershed

A NWNL NextGen Blog by Jacqueline Jobin, University of Minnesota. All Photos © Alison M. Jones, unless otherwise noted. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. Our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts only student essays; sponsors a forum for its student contributors; and …

Macroinvertebrates in the Mississippi River Basin

A NWNL NextGen Blog by Johanna Mitra, Stony Brook University. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. Our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts only student essays; sponsors a forum for its student contributors; and invites student proposals to write on watershed values, threats and solutions. Johanna Mitra …

Rivers, Estuaries and Oceans

By Alison M. Jones, NWNL Founding Director & Conservation Photographer. This post honors the UN celebration of World Oceans Day (June 8) and The Explorers Club World Oceans Week (June 5-9). All Photos © Alison M. Jones. NWNL focuses on freshwater availability, quality and usage. Oceans are also critical to the hydrologic cycle as rivers flow into oceans via estuaries …

A LOOK AT PFAS IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER

A NWNL NextGen Blog post by Rachel Rebello, Rutgers University, 2019. All photos © Alison M Jones, unless otherwise noted. This is the latest post to our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series. Since 2007, NWNL has supported watershed education with college internships and blogging opportunities. Our NWNL NEXTGEN BLOG series posts only student essays; sponsors a forum for its student contributors; and …

A Plea to EPA from the Mississippi River Valley

Written by John Ruskey. All paintings © John Ruskey John Ruskey describes himself as a “worker bee in the colony of his Queen - the Lower Mississippi River.”  He owns the Quapaw Canoe Company and is on the Mississippi River Network steering committee.  John has written Wild Miles and Rivergator: Paddler's Guide to the Lower Mississippi River.  In 2019, he received the Noel …