VERMILLION (KELO AM) - Scientists will share new information and discoveries about the Missouri River at the 2015 Missouri River Institute Research Symposium at the University of South Dakota on Thursday, April 9. The symposium opens at 9 a.m., and will take place in the Freedom Forum Conference Room of the Al Neuharth Media Center on the USD campus in Vermillion.
Science and education projects, river management issues, and natural resource studies are among the research topics and themes to be presented.
Scientists from the University of South Dakota, South Dakota State University, the South Dakota Geological Survey, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the National Park Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are scheduled to present at the symposium. Faculty and students from the University of South Dakota are included on the presentations schedule.
All presentations are free and open to the public.
For more information and a schedule of presentations, please visit www.usd.edu/mri or contact David Swanson at (605) 677-6175 or via e-mail at david.swanson@usd.edu.