Seeking to understand Minnesota's forest landscapes and ecosystems.
Platform Overview
The Applied Ecology and Resource Management Platform seeks to understand the world we live in and how to minimize our impacts. Comprised of our Forest and Land and our Water Research Groups, these scientists bring together decades of research and expertise in their respective fields.
NRRI was established by the Minnesota State Legislature to address the challenges of an economy largely built on the natural resources of the state. Can we manage the water and forest resources in a sustainable way that allows for efficient use of the resources by humans and wildlife? What remediation strategies make sense to improve degraded ecosystems? We address these challenges and opportunities through the following programs:
Research Programs
Developing hybrid poplar with superior growth and disease resistance for Minnesota’s emerging bioeconomy.
Developing science-based tools, materials and technologies to assess and protect our freshwater resources.
Featured Research Projects
The goal of this project was to develop a model that predicts potential beaver dam locations based on stream channel, watershed and habitat characteristics.
The ForCAST tool attempts to provide forestry professionals and land managers with an opportunity to evaluate how a changing climate and changing markets might affect Minnesota’s forests and
The Minnesota Fisher Den Box Project is focused on evaluating an emerging habitat management tool to address the declining MN fisher population.
Recent News
We dug back into the archives to find NRRI's original crayfish research and the start of The Crayfish Lab at NRRI Duluth.
NRRI tests techniques to clean boat interiors to stop spread of invasives.
Invasive ‘rusties’ add another challenge to growing Minnesota wild rice.
Expanding the reach and potential of NRRI’s fast-growing hybrid poplar trees.
Title: NRRI Senior Laboratory Technician Aquatic Sciences
Job ID: 361865
Location: Duluth
Job Family: LR-Technical
Full-Time/Regular
Job Code: 4945
Post-doc explores treatment techniques for PFAS in food waste to remove roadblocks to energy production.