Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program

Long Term Resource Monitoring

Principal Scientists

• Danelle Larson

Email: dmlarson@usgs.gov
Phone: 608-781-6350

• Scientific lead - vegetation
• Oversees the collection and analysis of LTRM vegetation data
• Research activities include:
  • Vegetation response to water level fluctuations
  • Flood-induced forest succession
  • Restoration of riverine ecological processes

• KathiJo Jankowski

Email: kjankowski@usgs.gov
Phone: 608-781-6242

• Scientific lead - water quality
• Oversees the collection and analysis of LTRM water quality data
• Research activities include:
  • Dynamics of dissolved oxygen, respiration, and primary production in the Mississippi River system

• Nathan R. De Jager
  
  Email: ndejager@usgs.gov
  Phone: 608.781.6232
  Fax: 608.783.6066

• Scientific lead - Landscape Ecology
• Ecologist

• Molly Van Appledorn
  
  Email:
  mvanappledorn@usgs.gov
  Phone: 608-781-6323

• Ecologist, Eco-hydrology

• Kristen Bouska
  
  Email:
  kbouska@usgs.gov
  Phone: 608-781-6344 

• Ecologist, Resilience

• Nicole Buckley
  
  Email:
  nbuckley@usgs.gov
  

• Physical Scientist

• Mathew Trumper
  
  Email:
  mtrumper@usgs.gov
  

• Biologist

Consulting and Support Staff

• Benjamin A. Schlifer
  

Email: bschlifer@usgs.gov
Phone: 608-781-6359

• Database programming/management

• John Manier
  
  Email:
  jmanier@usgs.gov
  Phone: 608-781-6205 

• Laboratory technician, water quality

• Derek Craig
  
  Email:
  dcraig@usgs.gov
  Phone: 608-781-6347 

• Laboratory technician, water quality