Presentation Tags: pollution

Clean Water Act 50

August 9, 2022

The Clean Water Act is 50! Let’s Make it Even Better

Presentation by Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels and Great Rivers Environmental Law Center Staff Attorney Bob Menees

Rachel Bartels and and Bob Menees of Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper share the history of the Clean Water Act.

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March 8, 2022

The Big Muddy Clean Sweep: Living on the River, for the River

Missouri River Relief’s very own Alyssa Thomas shared the story of the Big Muddy Clean Sweep for March 2022’s presentation.

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jamesonisland

January 11, 2022

Missouri DNR Works for Healthy Rivers

Online Presentation by Kansas City Regional Director Karen Rouse and Water Protection Director Chris Wieberg, Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources

We were joined by two directors at the Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources who discussed couple of ongoing programs that the Mo. Dept. of Natural Resources is involved in that work to solve issues faced by the Missouri River and the larger Mississippi River Watershed.

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Toxic Algae in the News

September 8, 2020

Missouri reservoirs: are they toxic?

Online Presentation by Dr. Rebecca North, PhD, Limnologist with MU Limnology Lab

Dr. North shared some of the research she’s been doing on harmful algal blooms in Missouri lakes and reservoirs.

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LaBarque Creek

January 14, 2020

Stream Restoration: Applications for Watershed Conservation

Presentation by Steve Herrington, Director of Science and Impact Measures, The Nature Conservancy of Missouri

Steve Herrington will give a broad look at the power, potential and importance of stream restoration in our wild and urban landscapes.

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bag it

November 11, 2014

FILM: “Bag It – Is your life too plastic?”

Film Screening hosted by Osage Group of the Sierra Club and Missouri River Relief Original Screening – Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at RagTag Cinema in Columbia, MO Followed by panel conversation featuring Dr. Frederick Vom Saal, the UM professor that discovered the estrogen mimicking properties in some plastic additives. Jan Dye – Osage Group of the […]

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Pallid-Shovelnose

July 9, 2013

Intersex Sturgeon on the Missouri River? The effects of emerging contaminants on a big river

Presentation by – Diana Papoulias, PhD, Research Fish Biologist –  US Geological Survey Columbia Environmental Research Center Original Presentations: Tuesday, July 9, 2013, at Les Bourgeois Bistro in Rocheport, MO Tuesday, October 28, 2014, at Healthy Rivers Partnership Office, Kansas City, MO Click here to watch a video of Diana’s presentation recorded by KCDV.  Click here to download pdf […]

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The Missouri River

October 10, 2012

Jameson Island – Bringing Politics to a Head

-Original Presentation by Brook Spear, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center photo of Jameson Chute courtesy of USFWS, Steve Hillebrandt One of the tools the Corps of Engineers is using to restore habitat along the Missouri lost during channelization is to create chutes and islands on public land adjacent to the river. For some time, this […]

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