The Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute (OEWRI) is in the College of Natural and Applied Sciences at Missouri State University. The institute supports efforts to protect and restore water quality and supply in the Ozarks Region of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. It provides a hub for science-based monitoring and assessment of water and sediment quality trends, watershed function and disturbance, and land use/land cover change in the Ozarks. In addition, it implements research projects aimed at solving environmental problems by working in partnership and cooperation with university researchers, environmental groups, and governmental agencies.

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April 18, 2010

The annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers was held in Washington D.C. April 13-18, 2010. W. Patrick Dryer, a Master's student and OEWRI graduate assistant won the Best Graduate Student Presentation award for the Geomorphology Specialty Group. Ben Young, a Masters's student with the department of Geography and Geology at MSU, also won the Best Graduate Student Presentation award for the Water Resources Speciality Group (WRSG).

March 15, 2010

The 2010 GSA North-Central and South-Central sections meeting will be held in Branson, MO April 11-13, 2010. OEWRI will be co-sponsoring and co-leading a field trip on Saturday, April 10th with the James River Basin Partnership. For more information about the field trip, Innovative Stormwater Management Practices, .

January 19, 2010

Click here to read the 2008 Water Year report for the Quality of Surface Water in Missouri.  This report was produced by the United State Geological Survey in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

November 17, 2009

Click here to listen to OEWRI employee Derek Martin talk about southwest Missouri water quality as interviewed by Nicki Donnelson from the Missouri State Journal, broadcast on KSMU-Ozarks Public Radio. Click here to listen to Dr. Robert Pavlowsky explain a gardening question from a geologists perspective.