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Great Rivers Partnership Great Rivers The Partnership The Great Rivers Mississippi Upper Lower Paraguay-Paraná Yangtze River Science Press Releases |
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The Advisory Board Guiding the Great Rivers Center for Conservation and Learning The work of the Great Rivers Partnership and of its Center for Science and Learning is informed and guided by a group of renowned scientists from around the world. The brief biographies below can give only a small glimpse into the depth and breadth of experience that each member of the advisory board brings to the Partnership. Robin Abell Robin Abell is a senior freshwater conservation biologist in World Wildlife Fund-United States’ Conservation Science Program and directs that organization’s freshwater science efforts. She has been at WWF for eight years, during which time she has been engaged in conservation research and planning efforts at global, continental, and ecoregional scales. Edmundo Drago Professor Edmundo Drago has studied the Paraguay-Paraná hydrosystem and its floodplains for more than 35 years. He investigated also the systems of the Patagonia Extra-andina, the morphology of the glacial lakes and brooks and lakes of Antarctica. He is a research scientist of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and is a currently staff member of the National Institute of Limnology (CONICET-UNL). David Galat Dr. David Galat is Assistant Unit Leader at the U. S. Geological Survey’s Missouri Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit and is Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, University of Missouri. He currently represents Central U.S. large rivers in a National River Restoration Synthesis and is a member of the Upper Mississippi River System Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program’s Science Panel. Jonathan Higgins Jonathan Higgins is a Senior Aquatic Ecologist for The Nature Conservancy. He supports development and application of ecological theory, spatial analytical tools and methods to support biodiversity conservation planning around the world. He was a Principle Investigator for conservation planning in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, the Pantanal in Brazil and is currently leading the freshwater conservation planning in the upper Yangtze River Basin as part of the China Blueprint Project. Geoffrey Petts Professor Geoffrey Petts is Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is also Professor of Physical Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Training. He has expertise in hydrology, geomorphology and ecology of rivers and in the transfer of fundamental research into practice, dealing with regulated rivers and urban rivers Nicholas Pinter Nicholas Pinter is Associate Professor of Geology at Southern Illinois University. Pinter's area of research includes fluvial geomorphology and flood hydrology. During the past several years, Pinter and his students have been focusing on changes over time in flood dynamics on large river systems such as the Mississippi, Missouri, Rhine, and Danube. Richard Sparks Dr. Richard Sparks is Director of Research for the new National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC) at Alton, Illinois, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and in the Illinois Water Resources Center at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. |
Ken Lubinski, science director of the Great Rivers Partnership (right) leads a group of Conservancy supporters on a tour of the Mississippi near Dubuque, Iowa © The Nature Conservancy.
Conservancy scientists joins their colleagues from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to monitor fish populations. © The Nature Conservancy.
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