Name:  John Anfinson

 

Institutional Affiliation:  Mississippi National River and Recreation Area

 

Mailing address:

Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (National Park Service) 

111 E. Kellogg Blvd. 

St. Paul, MN 55101-1288

 

phone: 651/290-3030 x285

e-mail: debjohn.anfinson.prodigy.net (home) work e-mail temporarily out of service

 

Current work/research:  History of economic development on the river, particularly the work of the Army Corps of Engineers from 1800-1940; historic preservation and education on the Upper Mississippi;  forthcoming book from U of Minnesota Press.

 

Geographical focus:  UMRS

 

Name:  Whitney Clark

 

Institutional Affiliation: Friends of the Mississippi River

 

Mailing address: 46 East Fourth Street, Suite 606, St. Paul, MN 55101

 

phone: 651/222-2193

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research:  Executive Director, working on conserving land, protecting water quality and enhancing the River`s cultural and recreational values.

 

Geographical focus:  Mississippi in the greater metro area

 

 

Name: Mike Davis

 

Institutional Affiliation:  Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources

 

Mailing address: MN DNR

1801 South Oak Street

Lake City, MN 55041

 

phone: 651/345-3331

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research: native mussel surveys and conservation; and large river ecological restoration

 

Geographical focus:  UMRS, Lake Pepin

 

Name:  Bob Douglas

 

Institutional Affiliation:  Gustavus Adolphus College, Geography Dept.

 

Mailing address: Geography Department

Gustavus Adolphus College

800 W. College Ave.

St. Peter, MN 56082-1498

 

phone: 507/933-7313

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research:  studying the geography and history of the Minnesota River around St. Peter, looking at perceptions of and land use adjacent to the river and watershed; concerned with care of the earth; lives on the glacial terrace in St. Peter; connection to the Minnesota River which is need of restoration; restoration of the prairie.

 

Geographical focus:  Minnesota River

 

Name:  Barry Drazkowski

 

Institutional Affiliation:  St. Mary`s University Department of Resource Analysis

 

Mailing address: Box 7

St. Mary`s University of Minnesota

Winona, MN  55987

 

phone: 507/457-6925

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research:  GIS, Upper Mississippi River Basin Stakeholder Network, Networking in the Upper Mississippi River Basin.  McKnight grant funds the first two years of the project,

 

Geographical focus:  UMRS

 

Name:  Julia Frost-Nerbonne

 

Institutional Affiliation: U of Minnesota College of Natural Resources

 

phone: 612/624-7460

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research: ABD in Conservation Biology, finishing dissertation on macro-invertebrate monitoring and rural sociology with citizen empowerment;  knowledge and values impact on water quality; and teaching a course in conservation biology in the department of fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology.  Used to work with VSMP as a stream ecologist, doing worked mostly high school students, some Community Colleges, some individuals, mostly biological, chemistry, doing macro-invertebrates counts.

 

Future interests:  interdisciplinary teaching relating to watershed sustainability

 

Geographical focus:  Minnesota watersheds

 

Name:  Steve Hoffman

 

Institutional Affiliation:  University of St. Thomas, Political Science Dept.

 

Mailing address:  Political Science Dept. University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105

 

phone: 651/962-5723

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research: Director of Environmental Studies; interest in energy policy;  grew up on the Mississippi, which impacted his life in thinking about making connections; works with students in the Superior Studies program and Boundary Waters; works with sustainability in a number of courses including off campus study in New Zealand., worked with a Humanities in the Upper Miss. R. Basin conference held at St. Thomas

 

Future interests: developing coursework on comparative and international environmental policy, with an emphasis on the United Kingdom

 

Geographical focus:  Minnesota, Boundary Waters, Mississippi River in Twin Cities and St. Louis, New Zealand,

 

Name:  David Kelley

 

Institutional Affiliation:  University of St. Thomas, Geography Dept.

 

Mailing address: JRC 432 University of St. Thomas

2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55115-1096

 

phone: 651/962-5569

e-mail:  [email protected]

 

Current work/research: teaches Humans and the Environment course, worked in agricultural research/sustainability; concerned with producing food sustainably without environmental degradation; also in peace corps in Africa and saw issues of agriculture and sustainability.  Nitrate loading in UMRS watershed;  research interests include the areas of environmental analysis, landscape evolution, and environmental management; hydrologic and topographic surface processes related to environmental quality, and in the.

 

Future interests:  application of geographic information science for land assessment and management

 

Geographical focus:  Minnesota, UMRS

 

Name:  Peggy Knapp

 

Institutional Affiliation:  CGEE Rivers of Life Program

 

phone: 651/523-2480

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research:   Associate Producer of Rivers of Life, Producer of the Rivers of Life Internet-based learning program, Mississippi Adventure Interactive Expedition coordinator, FELLOWS Project Coordinator, Following Fall coordinator

 

Geographical focus:  UMRS

 

Name:  Karen Kobey

 

Institutional Affiliation:  West Coon Rapids Dam Visitor Center, Hennepin Parks

 

Mailing address: 

W. Coon Rapids Dam Visitor Center

10360 W. River Rd.

Brooklyn Park, MN 55444

 

phone:  763/424-8172

 

Current work/research:  environmental education with K-12 and possibly college students;  field study, including macroinvertabrate counts

 

Geographical focus:  Mississippi River in Coon Rapids area

 

Name: Derek Larson

 

Institutional Affiliation:  St. John`s/St. Ben`s

 

Mailing address: Environmental Studies Program

Department of History

College of St. Benedict / St. John`s University

Collegeville, MN 56321

 

 

phone: 320/363- 3247

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research:  Environmental studies courses, public scholarship, Earth Day outreach events, developing environmental studies major, and forestry stewardship program

 

Name: Barbara W Liukkonen

 

Institutional Affiliation: Coordinator, Water Resources Center, University of Minnesota Extension

 

Mailing address: UM Extension Water Resources Center

173 McNeal Hall

6142

1985 Buford Ave

St Paul, MN 55108

 

phone: 612/625-9256

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research:  source water protection on the Upper Miss. R. works with the Waters Resources Center; does outreach work all over the state looking at water quality issues; motivated by being able to work with high school students.

 

Geographical focus:  Minnesota, UMRS

 

Name:  Dan McGuinness

 

Institutional Affiliation:  Audubon Society Upper Mississippi River Campaign

 

Mailing address: 26 E. Exchange St. Suite 110

St. Paul, MN 55110

 

phone: 651/290-1695

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research:  Director of UMRC, with extensive work on preservation and management of UMRS ecosystem, organizes Audubon Ark expeditions along the river from St. Louis north to Lake Itasca.

 

Future interests:  expanding Audubon Ark project and constructing a floating classroom to use in education and outreach efforts

 

Geographical focus:  UMRS

 

Name:  Mark Muller

 

Institutional Affiliation:  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

 

Mailing address: IATP

2105 First Avenue South

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404

 

phone: 612/870-3420

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research: Director of Environment and Agriculture Program. Current work includes assessing the environmental and economic impacts of agricultural transportation, hypoxia, and promoting farm-based renewable energy.

 

Geographical focus:  Midwest

 

Name:  Mark Neuzil

 

Institutional Affiliation:  University of St. Thomas, Journalism

Department and Environmental Studies Program

 

Mailing address: #4249, Department of Journalism,

University of St. Thomas,

2115 Summit Ave. St. Paul, MN 55105

 

phone: 651/962-5267

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research: co-teaches course with Steve Hoffman at the Superior Studies program, that involves canoeing in the Boundary Waters;  just published book on Henry Bosse photos, [Views] on the Mississippi (U of Minnesota Press, 2001), with lots on the history of the Mississippi River and the work of the Corps in the late 1800s.

 

Future interests: Exploring a Lake Superior textbook for undergraduates.

 

Geographical focus:  UMRS, Boundary Waters

 

Name:  Pat Nunnally

 

 

Name:  Blake Ratner

 

Institutional Affiliation:  HECUA River Studies Program, University of Minnesota, Carleton, Tiger Research

 

Mailing address: TIGER Research

1011 Carlton Drive

Shoreview, MN 55126

 

phone and fax: 651/415-1080

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research: environmental sociology, challenges and obstacles to watershed sustainability

 

Future interests: interdisciplinary research and teaching on environmental governance; research comparing watershed governance in Mississippi basin, SE Asia, Central America.

 

Geographical focus:  Upper Mississippi watershed, also SE Asia, and some work in Central America

 

Name:  Joe Underhill-Cady

 

Institutional Affiliation: Augsburg College, Political Science Dept.

 

Mailing address: CB 241 2211 Riverside Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55454

 

phone: 612/330-1312

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research:  teaching two courses on environmental and river politics, including a field seminar in which students travel down the Mississippi by boat for two weeks in July

 

Future interests: developing a full river semester program, with a river boat that reflects the values of community sustainability, editing, authoring, or co-authoring an interdisciplinary text on the topic of sustainability on the upper Mississippi River (any contributors or co-authors out there?)

 

Geographical focus: Mississippi River in Minnesota, potentially extending as far south as the Gulf

 

Name:  Gary Wagenbach

 

Institutional Affiliation:  Carleton College, Biology and Environmental Studies

 

Mailing address: Biology Department

Carleton College

One N. College St.

Northfield, MN 55057

 

phone: 507/646-4390

e-mail: [email protected]

 

Current work/research: works with Environmental Studies program; thinks sustainability is a slippery word; involved in the Isaac Walton League- community based education group about the environment; field ecology work off campus, hands of learning is very valuable, feels like this is an idea whose time has come.

 

Future interests:  curriculum and field study relating to the Mississippi River