River Studies Program

River Studies is an interdisciplinary river and stream assessment program. Its primary goal is to assure sufficient quantity and quality of water to maintain the natural biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems and their associated wetlands and riparian lands. Program staff work to characterize aquatic ecosystems, evaluate impacts to those systems, and determine water quantity and quality needs to address policy and regulatory issues. Results from long-term projects, such as the Aquatic Ecoregion Project and Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program, provide data from large geographic areas to address broad scale policy and regulatory issues.