A Seminar Series on Current Issues: Water Quality of the Minnesota River

When: Thursdays at 3:00 p.m.

Where: 365 Borlaug Hall, St Paul Campus

 

Expected class outcomes:

  • The students will be able to understand the water quality issues in the MN River basin from a broader temporal and spatial perspective.
  • The students will gain a sense of what approaches are being discussed and tried to mitigate water quality impacts.
  • The students will understand how impaired waters are listed and how TMDLs are established.
Date
Title and Speaker
Jan. 8

Minnesota River Basin: Overview of problems and issues, pdf 4.09 MB

Dave Mulla

Jan. 15

Minnesota River Basin: Overview of problems and issues (cont)

Dave Mulla

Feb. 1

Geological history and characteristics of the Minnesota River Basin, pdf, 6.23 MB
(potential class exercise)

Carrie Jennings

Feb. 8

Geological history and characteristics of the Minnesota River Basin (cont)

Carrie Jennings/ Herb Wright

Feb. 15

Reconstructing environmental change in Lake Pepin, pdf 1.15 MB

Dan Engstrom

Feb. 22

Fingerprinting sediment sources in the Minnesota River, pdf, 1.51 MB

Shawn Schottler

Mar. 8

Agricultural nitrogen management in the Basin, pdf, 2.19 MB

Adam Birr

Mar. 22

Streambank erosion contribution to sediment in the Minnesota River

Click here for a related journal article, pdf, 264 KB

Satish Gupta

Mar. 29

Lake Pepin & Spring Lake excess nutrients and turbidity TMDL primer, pdf, 1.78 MB

Steve Heiskary

Apr. 5

Hydrologic management in the Minnesota River Basin

Gary Sands

Apr. 12

Hypoxia class exercise

Les Everett

Apr. 19

Impaired waters and TMDLs in Minnesota River Basin, pdf, 436 KB

Larry Gunderson

Apr. 26

Social indicators of change, pdf, 70 KB

Karlyn Eckman

May 3

A case study of wastewater treatment: Fountain, Minnesota, Sinkhole capitol of the world

Click here for the paper on this project, pdf, 348 KB

Sara Throndson