Courthouse News Service

Mississippi River model reveals remedies to Louisiana’s disappearing coast

Model of the lower Mississippi River at the River Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in October 2023. (Sabrina Canfield/ Courthouse News Service) BATON ROUGE, La. (CN) — Louisiana ...
The Advocate

LSU unveils massive Mississippi River model expected to be major tool in coastal restoration projects

From their second-story vantage point, the governor and a fleet of scientists, politicians and philanthropists peered down at a basketball court-sized model of southeast Louisiana. In the top left ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Using a Model River to Investigate How Wood Moves During Floods

In a large windowless room and with the hum of a motor steadily pumping water, brightly painted sticks are dropped one at a time into the top of a model river system. Carried by the flow of water, ...
unr.edu

Research published in PNAS proposes a new model that predicts river tributary length and spacing

Michael Robinson, a doctoral student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, was working on his dissertation, but he needed a better tool to get the job done. The tool he was looking for was ...
The New York Times

A Mini-Mississippi River May Help Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast

Mr. Schwartz, a climate reporter, has reported on Louisiana coastal issues since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. HOLDEN, Mass. — We were standing on the levee of the Mississippi River, about an hour west ...