The Global Rivers Observatory

The Global Rivers Observatory conducts time-series observations (about monthly) on the following rivers: Mississippi (sporadic), Columbia, Fraser, Yukon, Mackenzie, Ob (paused), Yenisei (paused), Lena (paused), Kolyma (paused), Sepik, (Ganges-Brahmaputra only sporadic), Mekong (paused), Congo, Amazon, and Magdalena in partnership with many domestic and international colleagues.

Visit www.globalrivers.org for more information on our research, including multimedia presentations.  The initial funding for this project has been provided by the National Science Foundation through its Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles (ETBC) Program: OCE-0851015 to WHOI, the WHRC, UNH and many private donors and foundations who support what we do.  The Arctic component of the project (Arctic Great Rivers Observatory - ArcticGRO) has been supported for more than 20 years by NSF OPP and support from the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, MA, the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, MA, and WHOI.