NGRREC’s focus encompasses all aspects of the ecology and management of large rivers, including aquatic, floodplain, and terrestrial habitats, watershed processes, and the human communities that depend on river-floodplain ecosystems.
In addition to conducting research, our education and outreach programs are essential to our mission. We are grateful to our funding agencies for their support of our efforts in research and education.
AmeriCorps
- Education: Mississippi Xchange Program
Great Rivers Land Trust
- Research: Palisades Hill Prairie Enhancement Project
Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation Challenge Grant
- Sustainability: Confluence Field Station
Illinois Department of Natural Resources & U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
- Research: LTEF: Ancient Sportfishes (sturgeon and paddlefish)
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency SCALE Grant
- Education: Stream Discovery
Illinois Lieutenant Governor's Office and Illinois River Coordinating Council
- Education: RiverWatch Program
Natural Resource Conservation Service
- Research: Vegetative Restoration
The McKnight Foundation
- Education: RiverWatch Program
Trees Forever Illinois Buffer Partnership
- Education: Living Laboratory
Southern University Baton Rouge and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District
- Monitoring:
- Vegetation Survey for Wilkinson Island - Middle Mississippi
- Navigation and Environmental Sustainability Program (NESP) Upper Mississippi River System, Systemic Forest Management Plan
- Melvin Price Locks and Dam Hydroacoustic Survey - Auxiliary Lock
- NESP Reno Bottoms Forest Restoration Project Implementation Report
- Forest Resource Survey - Illinois and Upper Mississippi River (Pool 26)
U.S. Department of Education (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - FIPSE)
- Research: Great Rivers Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems Education and Strategic Planning
U.S. Geological Survey & US Army Corps of Engineers
- Research: Long-term River Monitoring Program
USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences
- Research: Long Term Resources Monitoring Program (LTRMP) Ecological Assessment of High Quality UMRS Floodplain Forests
The Walton Family Foundation
