The Center for Reservoir Research over Its First Twenty Years with Special Reference to the Long-term Monitoring Program

Abstract

The Center for Reservoir Research (CRR) at Murray State University is nearing its 20th year. A series of papers on CRR research and education were presented at the 2006 meeting of the Ohio River Basin Consortium for Research and Education, and a selection of these is included in this issue of the Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. A major component of CRR is the Long-term Monitoring Program on Kentucky Lake and the resulting database. The database contains suites of physicochemical and biological data that have been collected primarily on 16 or 32 day cycles since 1988. These data are available to students and scientists through the CRR website.