The URSYS (Urban-Rural Systems) Research Network’s third event in a series of regional workshops was held in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 5th-7th, 2024. This workshop brought together local and regional stakeholders from academia, government, non-governmental organizations, and industry to explore the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) as a large interconnected urban […]
Transboundary Flows
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The second URSYS workshop was held at the Center for River Studies at the LSU Water Campus on November 3-5, 2023. The workshop brought 20 researchers and community stakeholders from Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee, together with researchers and community stakeholders from Louisiana, to continue discussing common research themes along the urban-rural […]
Two Iowa State University students, Keyhani Mahsa, and Josey Weaver, were selected to serve as interns at the 2023 LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio Summer Institute. Their engagement at the Summer Institute demonstrates one of the many benefits of professional exchanges among participants in the URSYS consortium. During the months […]
The first regional URSYS workshop took place in Minneapolis from April 21 to 23 and engaged 37 researchers and community stakeholders. The workshop’s goal was to begin creating cross-disciplinary research collaborations among stakeholders in the MRB with the potential to identify themes and sites for future interdisciplinary grant proposals and […]
URSYS Steering Committee member Ulrike Passe was honored to be invited to attend the Mississippi River Summit organized by the Great Plains Action Society. The summit occurred from May 11 to 14th in the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa. The Great Plains Action Society organized the Mississippi River Summit […]
In the midst of our battle to stop the Byhalia Oil Pipeline from its proposed route atop the Memphis Sand Aquifer, founding Board members—Ward Archer and Jim Kovarik—made this video in February 2021. After a two-year tussle with billion-dollar oil interests, Byhalia pulled its permits and canceled its pipeline in […]
Research and projects will appear here to enable change of urban-rural interfaces to reduce transboundary flows of nutrients and other pollutants that negatively impact the region’s river system through use of green infrastructure;