Lower Mississippi River

Members of the Lower Mississippi River Waterway Safety Advisory Committee (LMRWSAC) met in New Orleans, La., January 9 to finalize the group’s recommendations for repealing, replacing or modifying certain U.S. Read More

When Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville founded “La Nouvelle-Orléans” in the spring of 1718—traditionally, it was May 7, 1718—he no doubt spent days sailing up the Mississippi River, his ship’s… Read More

A hydrologist at Louisiana State University (LSU) presented research at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in New Orleans, La.,  earlier this month on how sedimentation near the Old River… Read More