Read about MSI and monitoring efforts on the Animas River, featured in the Environmental Monitor. Having already established a water quality monitoring program from the Gold King Mine spill in 2015, MSI is now able to conclusively assess the impacts of the 416 Fire.

In this featured article, MSI’s Water Programs Director and Aquatic Biologist, Scott Roberts, expands on MSI’s programs, including community and educational outreach. “We do on the ground environmental research, mine hydrology, water quality monitoring, and forest health monitoring, and try to distill and distribute that information to address specific concerns that arise in the community. One thing that differs, I think, in our research program is largely driven by concerns in the community, rather than our own kind of academic pursuits. It’s usually shaped by efforts to try to address questions that come about in the community.”