Mississippi River Team Organization and Contacts
The interdisciplinary Mississippi River team has program areas in fisheries, wildlife management water quality monitoring and assessment, and Mississippi River habitat restoration.
The river team also includes the Mississippi River monitoring station which is located at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. A separate website has been developed for the Mississippi River Monitoring Station in cooperation with the USGS Environmental Sciences Center.
Mississippi River contacts
Because the Mississippi River team is responsible for 230 miles of the river along the western border of Wisconsin, there are offices located in Alma, La Crosse and Prairie du Chien.
To find out more about the Upper Mississippi River, reach out to any staff member listed below. Your questions are important to us, and we will reply as quickly as possible.
- Mississippi River Team Leader: Vanessa Perry
- Mississippi River Planner: Sammi Boyd
- Alma Fisheries Biologist: Brian Brecka
- Water Quality Specialist: Shawn Giblin
- Mississippi River Habitat Specialist: Jeff Janvrin
- Mississippi River Long Term Resource Monitoring Field Station Leader: Patrick Kelly
- Prairie du Chien Fisheries Biologist: Patrick Short
Mississippi River monitoring station
- Fisheries Specialist: Andrew Bartels
- Mississippi River Vegetation Specialist: Alicia Carhart
- Water Quality Specialist: John Kalas
- Mississippi River Monitoring Technician: Jeremy King
- Long Term Resource Monitoring Invertebrate Specialist: Cadie Olson
- Mississippi River Field Operations Specialist: Ben Patschull
- Mississippi River Monitoring Technician: Stephanie Szura
This interdisciplinary team has expertise in fisheries, aquatic vegetation, wildlife, water quality, freshwater mussels and restoring Mississippi River habitat.