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. Its mission is  to provide 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 will initiate and support research programs aimed at solving environmental problems by working in partnership and cooperation with university researchers, environmental groups, and governmental agencies.

Latest News

January 19, 2010

Click here to read the 2008 Water Year report for the Quality of Surface Water in Missouri. This report was produced in cooperation with the US Geological Survey, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and the U.S. Department of the Interior.

December 18, 2009

OEWRI is currently in the process of finalizing the “Nonpoint Source and Water Quality Trends in the Pearson Creek Watershed” report in support of our USEPA Region 7 - Federal Assistance Grant.  We plan on distributing a summary paper to local organizations in the coming weeks.

December 9, 2009

All sampling efforts and analyses have been wrapped up for the “Suspended Sediment and Dissolved Solid Transport in the James River, SW Missouri” project and we are working on the final report.

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.

April 24, 2009

The Geomorphic Assessment of Galloway Branch in Sequiota Park, Springfield, Missouri was completed and final report was submitted to Olsson Associates for the City of Springfield, Missouri.  This project is part of OEWRI’s Geomorphology River Assessment Program (Geo-RAP).

 

 

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