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.

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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). 

January 5, 2009

The Geomorphic Assessment of City Center Athletic Club Development, Impacts on Existing Stream Channel Stability, Lenexa, Kansas was completed and final report was submitted to Olsson Associates for the City of Lenexa, Kansas.  This project is part of OEWRI’s Geomorphology River Assessment Program (Geo-RAP).

July 3, 2008

The  Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis of the Bennett Spring Watershed and Recharge Area was completed and a final report was submitted to the Southwest Missouri Council of Governments.

October 1 , 2007

OEWRI has secured EPA Phase II Funding through the fall of 2008 to continue its start-up activities and implement water and sediment quality research projects on the Finley river, the James river and Pearson Creek.