Water Resources Center

The Water Resources Center is affiliated with the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and University of Minnesota Extension.

Water Supply, Quantity and Quality

Current Projects

MinnAqua (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources)

Completed Projects

A Rapid Bioassessment Approach for Integrating Biological Data into TMDL Development for Organic Enrichment of streams in Urbanizing Watersheds

Arsenic in Minnesota Groundwater and its Impact on Drinking Water Supply

Assessing the Ecotoxicology of 4-nonylphenol Mixtures Across the Aquatic Food Chain

Assessment of Minnesota Lakes Using Satellite Imagery

Biodiversity in Urban Ponds and Lakes: Human Effects on Plankton Populations

Citizens Monitoring Bacteria

Controls on Biomass: Nutrient Ratios in Streams and Rivers 

Cumulative Impacts of Development on Minnesota Lakes

Determination of Appropriate Metrics for Sediment-related Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)

Development of a Rapid Bioassessment Technique for Integrating Biological Data into TMDL Assessments in Urban Streams

Development of DNA Marker Gene System to Determine Sources of Fecal E. Coli in Watersheds

Development of Satellite and GIS-based Tools to Assess and Model Lake Quality

Ecological Stoichiometry and Microbial Biodiversity Effects on Water Quality in Minnesota Lakes

Effect of Riparian Forest Harvest on Instream Habitat and Fish and Invertebrate Communities

Effects of Alum Treatments on Native and Exotic Macrophyte Density and Potential for Biological Control of Eurasian watermilfoil

Enhanced Contaminant Remediation: Fermentation as a Method to Enhance Dissolution of Hydrophobic Compounds

Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)

Eutrophication and Remediation in Context: High Resolution Study of Past 200 years in Sedimentary Record of Lake McCarrons (Roseville Minnesota)

Evaluating and Communicating Risks and Benefits to Fond du Lac Band members of Consuming Wild Rice and Waterfowl

Factors Affecting Revegetation Success in Lakeshore Restorations

Flourochemicals in Minnesota Waters: An Emerging Environmental Issue

Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and Managing Nutrient Loadings from the Mississippi River

Integrating Biological Data into TMDL Assessments: Refining a Model to Determine Biologically Meaningful Target Levels for Dissolved Oxygen

Investigation of Factors Affecting the Removal of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts in Porous Media Filters

Investigation of a Novel Biomolecule Active in Degradation of Common Groundwater Contaminants

Modeling TMDLs in the Minnesota River Basin

Paleohydrologic Response of the Mississippi Headwater Watershed to Holocene Climate Change

Photochemical Reactions and Organic Matter Binding of Mercuric Ion and Methylmercury in Surface Water

Phyto-enhanced Remediation: A Wetland Treatment System for Surface Water Protection

The Cultivation, Characterization, and Detection of Bacteria that Biodegrade Haloacetic Acids in Drinking Water Distribution Systems

The Effects of Long-term Low-level Antibiotic Exposure on the Development of Antibiotic Resistance

Triclosan and Triclosan-derived Dioxins in the Mississippi River Sediment Record

Use of Arthrobacter aurescens for Remediation of Groundwater Contaminated with Triazine Herbicides

Wireless Technologies Applied to Environmental Variables and Nutrient Loadings

Program Areas

Agricultural Impacts on Water Quality

Stormwater and Wastwater

Water Resources Social Science and Policy

Water Supply, Quantity and Quality