View of the Mississippi River from Perot State Park

International Conference on Rivers and Civilization:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Major River Basins


La Crosse, Wisconsin USA
June 25-28, 2006

HOST AND PRESENTER INSTITUTIONS
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Home Page National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium Home Page

FEATURED, PLENARY SPEAKERS

  • Douglas Brinkley
    Tulane University, USA: The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
  • David Dudgeon
    University of Hong Kong, China: Conservation of Riverine Biodiversity in the Human-dominated Landscapes of Monsoonal Asia (abstract)
  • Karlynn Eckman
    University of Minnesota, USA: Assessing Human Vulnerability in Major River Systems (abstract)
  • Fekri Hassan
    University College of London, UK: The Nile and Civilization (abstract)
  • Robert Howarth
    Cornell University, USA: Human Alteration of the Nitrogen Cycle in Large Watersheds (abstract)
  • Donna Mergler
    University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada: An Ecosystem Approach to Mercury and Health in the Amazon Basin (abstract)
  • Christer Nilsson
    Umea University, Sweden: Landscape Ecology of Large Rivers (abstract)
  • Michael Tidwell
    Author-Filmmaker: Life After Katrina: Allowing the Mississippi River to "Flood" Again Is the Only Way to Save New Orleans From the Next Hurricane  (abstract)
  • John Wiens
    The Nature Conservancy: Great Rivers as Great Integrators: Linking Land with Water, People with Conservation (abstract)
  • German Historical Institute Panel, with Mark Cioc, University of California-Santa Cruz; Meredith McKittrick, Georgetown University, USA; and Donald Worster, University of Kansas, USA:
    Rivers of the World in Historical Perspective