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Changing River + Changing Communities: Need for New Narratives
When we put a public program together, we have a clear, but complex, goal: we want the audience to walk away saying “That’s a really interesting idea. I’ll have to think about that some more.” Maybe...
View ArticleRivers May Need Universities; Universities Probably Need Rivers
The title here may or may not be puzzling, but hear me out. Last week, we held our “Once and Future River” symposium about the Mississippi River, the stories we tell about it, and how climate change...
View ArticleStories About Water: What’s “Old” is New Again
Last month we convened a symposium, “The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change.” Video coverage of the sessions is available here and additional material is on...
View Article“From River as Image to River as Place” A Post from the Sawyer Symposium
Last month we convened a symposium, “The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change.” Video coverage of the sessions is available here and additional material is on...
View Article“Living with the River: the Once and Future Mississippi” A Post from the...
Last month we convened a symposium, “The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change.” Video coverage of the sessions is available here and additional material is on...
View ArticleOn Science and the Past, with a Nod to Davy Crockett: A Post from the Sawyer...
Some tales about the Mississippi River region are well known and are true, some are well known and are fiction, and some of the most important are true, and have been well known but are barely...
View Article“The River Is Our Future” A Post from the Sawyer Symposium
Last month we convened a symposium, “The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change.” Video coverage of the sessions is available here and additional material is on...
View ArticleLooking for Ways to Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in Minneapolis?
Our friends at the Healing Place Collaborative were recognized this week as one of the winners in the 2015 St. Paul Knight Arts Challenge. Huge congratulations to them all and we can’t wait to see how...
View ArticleA Sip of Science–The St Anthony Lock Has Closed, So How Is the River Doing?
This Wednesday May 11, A Sip of Science will feature a University of Minnesota graduate student reporting on a nearly-complete “literature review” and baseline assessment of the Mississippi River in...
View ArticleWhat can Scientific Study Tell Us about the Urban Mississippi?
A year ago, when the Upper St. Anthony Lock closed, there was widespread interest in the impacts the closure would have on the biological and physical systems of the river. Would the closure, and...
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