GODFREY – The National Great Rivers Research and Education Center recently hosted a contingent of water resource scientists from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

The six visitors were in the United States in mid-April as part of an international exchange sponsored by the University of Illinois. They took part in a one-day workshop at the U of I discussing the differences and similarities in European and American approaches to water resources, which
several NGRREC staff attended.

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The University of Leeds, the fifth largest university in the U.K., is research focused and includes an interdisciplinary center called "Water@Leeds" (www.wateratleeds.org).

NGRREC invited the Leeds scientists to an informal lunch, tour and information exchange at the Jerry F. Costello Confluence Field Station, here the staffs of the two centers engaged in a lively discussion and came away with a better understanding of the way water is approached in the two countries as well as ideas for future international collaboration.

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