The kick-off event draws together many of the essential themes and concerns of the overarching journey from the headwaters to New Orleans for a public gathering.

Over the course of eighty days, this canoe expedition offers an immersive research program on and along the Mississippi River.

On immersive, field-based education and an exploration of the (dis)comforts of an approach Anthropocene River Travelers describe as “being at home-in-the-world.”

If a corporation can have rights, then why not the Mississippi River?

Brian Holmes contemplates how our natural surroundings are suffused with the aftermath of colonial trauma and racial exploitation.

What modes of collecting, representing, and knowing are appropriate to meet the conceptual and practical challenges of the Anthropocene? Which narrative forms and styles can help us to document states of flux and transformation, across multiple scales of space and time?

The impact of fossil fuel emissions on climate change is well established. This research project sheds light on the lesser known origins and history of the petro-industry.

A project on the ephemeral art of carving water.

In which ways do conventional data cultures and practices of archiving preclude, neglect, and overlook the interconnectedness between humans, time scales, and environments? An experiment in ethnographic story-writing.

A home-built device travels downstream to explore the limits of digital representation and the possibilities of uncertain knowledge.

How the “edible matter” of food as a leading agent in landscape change along the Mississippi River.

What can the history of slavery tell us about the future of the Anthropocene?

Green infrastructures intend to respond to the climatic and environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. But which landscapes are considered worthy of protection and on what grounds?

The geo-engineering efforts undertaken at the Mississippi mirror an ongoing belief in the human ability to predict, control, and regulate an entire eco-system of continental-scale. What could a more adaptive system of river management look like?

Waves form the focus of Andrea Carlson’s Traveler Project, which brings together the world of fluid dynamics with the Ojibwe language to create new artworks.

Unearthing the pre-industrial waterways of the Mississippi River Delta.

What if the kinetic energy of the river’s flow could be utilized for a regionalized power system? This research project turns towards the past and future of infrastructural regionalism.

Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations.

A chromatic record of the intimate relationship between the Mississippi River and its surrounding soils.

This project identifies rivers as crucial for investigating representations of the Anthropocene, via the medium of experimental documentary film.

Sadie Luetmer’s project will entail writing about the headwaters region in Minnesota, Anishinaabe territory, reflecting upon the maps and relations she once learned and is now unlearning and learning again.

Anthropologist Dominic Boyer and sociologist Mark Vardy describe the amphibious futurism that needs to prevail if Houston is to survive the twenty-first century.

As an effect of human intervention, the former prairie of the Mississippi region has been turned into agricultural farmland. But what are the energy-based effects of land use changes?

A research project on the anthropogenic influence on pollution concentration and air quality of the Mississippi River region.

What do the spatial patterns of the distribution of nitrogen dioxide reveal about human-environment relations? And how do pollution levels along the Mississippi compare globally?

In addition to its position as a pillar of New Orleans cuisine, the humble oyster has also taken on another, more troubling role—serving as an indicator of water contamination in the Mississippi River Delta and the Lousiana Gulf.