Training Future Water Professionals

Welcome to Missouri Water Center!

The world needs better-trained water experts.

Education provides a foundation, yet hands-on experience sets the stage for student success.

The Missouri Water Center contributes to the training of students for industry, public service, and academia via support for hourly undergraduate research employment, graduate assistantships, and post-doctoral research fellowships on water-related issues.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

-Albert Einstein

Educating tomorrow’s water experts.

Creating unique opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.

On the University of Missouri campus, various research and educational programs address a range of water issues. Expertise in the College of Engineering (COE) and the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) are most notable; each has approximately a dozen faculty members with water as their main research focus.

This creates rich opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to assist faculty in conducting water research in engineering and the environmental, biophysical, and social sciences.

Students are critical to achieving our goal.

The Missouri Water Center’s research focuses on issues that are both timely and relevant.

Students are critical to achieving our goal of providing policymakers with objective scientific research that addresses priority issues such reducing risks associated with future flood events, predicting river and stream quantity and water quality, quantifying the social and economic impacts of flood and drought events, and using new technologies to enhance water quality.

Our research experiences prepare students to be problem solving water experts.

Through our networks, this research engages with communities, industry, farmers, business owners, representatives of state and federal agencies, and elected officials.

Research experiences supported by the Missouri Water Center translate into a growing pool of students prepared with the knowledge, experience, and wisdom to address tomorrow’s pressing water challenges in service of Missouri and beyond.

Water-Related Degree Programs at MU

Other related B.S. degree programs with water emphases:

Featured Projects

2022 National lakes Assessment (NLA3) Survey

Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Agency, PI- Alba Argerich

The Heartland Disaster Education Network – Building resiliency in the heartland, multi-state project

United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture Special Needs Program, PI- Dan Downing

Exploring coupled physical, biological and chemical processes that control Lead fate and transport through plastic plumbing materials

National Science Foundation, Environmental Engineering Program, PI- Maryam Salehi

Development of a Novel Nanofibrous media to remove the microplastics from water

Brown and Cadwell, PI- Maryam Salehi

Bizarro cyanotoxins: when do green reservoirs become toxic?

Missouri Water Resources Research Center, PI- Rebecca North

Flooding impact on cyanobacteria blooms

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, PI- Rebecca North

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