The University of Texas at Arlington
Office of Media Relations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media contact: Sue Stevens, (817) 272-3317, sstevens@uta.edu

ARLINGTON—Professor John Holbrook of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Texas at Arlington has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation titled “Rates, Processes, and Implications of Big Changes in the Shape and Style of the Missouri River.” The grant totals $342,000 and will fund research to examine the rates and processes by which the Missouri River changes its pattern and erosion trends in response to climate change.

The project is also designated as a “Research Experience for Undergraduates” effort and will offer up to 30 undergraduate students the opportunity to participate as research collaborators over the four-year duration of the project. Most of these students are to be recruited from Tarrant and Dallas county community colleges in an effort to further expand cooperation between UT Arlington and these important feeder schools.

The project will entail the first extensive mapping of the Missouri River floodplain upstream of Kansas City, and will include the valley segment near Sioux City, Iowa that was recently adopted into the National Park System as the Missouri National Recreational River.

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