Center for Water and the Environment
Scientists at this center within the Natural Resources Research Institute focus on environmental research and resource management for lakes, streams, rivers, northern forests, and the Great Lakes. The Center is committed to understanding problems that impede environmentally sound development of the economy. It also provides basic environmental information essential to safe, sustainable natural resource development. Center faculty and staff seek to: 1) understand the ecological structure and function of surface waters; 2) understand how ecosystem management, natural forest succession, and climate change influence the productivity of northern forest ecosystems; 3) understand the fate and effects of human-made and naturally occurring chemicals in the environment; and 4) create computer models to understand and predict chemical behavior, moose foraging habits, and sediment and nutrient accumulations.
The Center is part of the Sea Grant program at Duluth. The Center has completed more than $13 million in Great Lakes research projects over the past 12 years, including ecological indicators, decision support systems, and contaminants. |
