Determining the environmental health of the Yellow River entering Effigy Mounds National Monument: Taking the pulse of a culturally important ecosystem
Description: This presentation will cover a cooperative project (USGS, NPS, FWS, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, and the Ho Chunk Nation) at Effigy Mounds National Monument.
Author: Shannon Meppelink (U.S. Geological Survey)*; Dana Kolpin (USGS); Kendra Markland (USGS)
Author Bio: I have been a physical scientist at the USGS for 17 years. My work primarily focuses on contaminants of global concern in surface water, but I am also involved in studies of groundwater and tapwater.