{"id":1124,"date":"2013-04-08T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2013-04-09T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:10:35","slug":"looking-back-at-the-upper-mississippi-river-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/looking-back-at-the-upper-mississippi-river-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at the Upper Mississippi River, moving forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student and I are working on finishing a project that has lingered for too many years: a careful analysis of the cumulative effects of river management on islands in the lower part of Pool 6 of the Mississippi River, near my hometown of Winona, Minnesota. There will be a MS thesis soon and hopefully a journal manuscript shortly to follow that, but for now, I&#8217;m enjoying discovering new and old research and resources on &#8220;the father of waters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>First, check out this 17-minute silent film on the 1927 Mississippi River flood:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/mississippi_flood_1927\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nFor more information on the film made by the Signal Corps in the 1930s, head here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mississippi_flood_1927\">http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mississippi_flood_1927<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, check out this 2012 publication from the USGS on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mississippi_flood_1927\">A Brief History and Summary of the Effects of River Engineering and Dams on the Mississippi River System and Delta<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s a paper just out in Geophysical Research Letters by Frans et al. titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/grl.50262\/abstract\">Are climatic or land cover changes the dominant cause of runoff trends in the Upper Mississippi River Basin?<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s my afternoon reading sorted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student and I are working on finishing a project that has lingered for too many years: a careful analysis of the cumulative effects of river management on islands in the lower part of Pool 6 of the Mississippi River, near my hometown of Winona, Minnesota. There will be a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30,8],"tags":[254,5,255,162,253],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floods","category-literature","category-rivers","tag-1927-flood","tag-dams","tag-land-use-change","tag-levees","tag-upper-mississippi-river"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"ajefferson","author_link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/author\/ajefferson\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}