Misi-ziibi Great Rivers Workshop

In 2013, I participated in the "Misi-Ziibi: Living with the Great Rivers" workshop. Teams of students, faculty, local experts, and Dutch practitioners worked together to consider possible alternatives to address rising river levels, aging infrastructure, and land valuations within the at-risk region. My group focused on the American Bottom, the floodplain East of St. Louis. 

Following the workshop, I worked as an I-CARES research assistant for Professors Derek Hoeferlin and John Hoal. I continued mapping and diagramming possible scenarios proposed in the Misi-Ziibi Workshop.

The diagrams to the left show three proposals--each with increasing required intervention--in order to address flooding within the American Bottom.