Tom Peters, Dean of Library Services at Missouri State University, will speak next Thursday, September 23, 2021 at the Ozarks Studies Association Annual Conference in West Plains, Missouri. He will participate in a panel discussion around the general topic of water resources in the Ozarks.

Here’s the schedule for the beginning of the one-day conference:

8:00–8:15 Coffee and Registration

8:15–8:45 Introduction and Welcome

• Mara Cohen Ioannides, MSU, OSA President
• Dennis Lancaster, Chancellor, MSU—West Plains

8:45-9:45 PANEL: Ozarks Waterways

Chair: Robert Pavlowsky, MSU Springfield

• “Utilizing Next-Generation Sequencing for Bacterial Source Tracking And Pathogen Detection In Greene And Polk County Streams” John Kincaid, MSU
• “Surface/subsurface connectivity promotes high diversity in a flashy Ozark stream” Debra Finn, MSU
• “Dawn of the Dam: Powersite Dam and Lake Taneycomo at the Dawn of Large Dams and Reservoirs in the Ozarks” Tom Peters, MSU