Mississippi River Basin Model (1969) from Ron Rodenmeyer on Vimeo. The 80th Anniversary Celebration of the Mississippi River Basin Model will give visitors a rare opportunity to see what has been ...

Scientists working on new ways to battle the erosion that threatens Louisiana's coastline have a dramatic new tool: a massive replica of the lower Mississippi River. The Louisiana State University's ...

Model of the lower Mississippi River at the River Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in October 2023. (Sabrina Canfield/ Courthouse News Service) BATON ROUGE, La. (CN) — Louisiana ...

Scientists can send water and granules, representing sediment, down the model Mississippi model to simulate both coastal loss and restoration efforts. Every hour that passes in the operation ...

Louisiana has lost about 2,000 square miles of coastline in the last 80 years according to estimates — an area about the size of Delaware. Coastal erosion and seawater damage have a lot to do with it.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Scientists working on new ways to battle the erosion that threatens Louisiana's coastline have a dramatic new tool: a massive replica of the lower Mississippi River. The ...

Scientists working on ways to fight coastal land loss in Louisiana are using a $4 million model replica of the lower Mississippi River – to isolate the best areas to divert nutrient-rich river water ...

Rivers deliver freshwater, nutrients, and carbon to Earth's oceans, influencing the chemistry of coastal seawater worldwide.

The 80th Anniversary Celebration of the Mississippi River Basin Model will give visitors a rare opportunity to see what has been described as the largest hydraulic model in the world from 2 until 6 ...

From their second-story vantage point, the governor and a fleet of scientists, politicians and philanthropists peered down at a basketball court-sized model of southeast Louisiana. In the top left ...