Mississippi River Team Organization and Contacts

River Team-location of offices
Because the Mississippi River Team is responsible for 230 miles of river along the western border of Wisconsin, there are offices located in Alma, La Crosse, and Prairie du Chien.

The interdisciplinary Mississippi River Team has program areas in fisheries and freshwater mussels, water quality monitoring and assessment, Mississippi River habitat restoration, and wildlife management. More from the WDNR-Mississippi River Initiative.

The River Team also includes the Mississippi River Monitoring Station which is located at the U.S.Geological Survey (USGS) Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. A separate web site has been developed for the Mississippi River Monitoring Station [exit DNR] ) in cooperation with the USGS Environmental Sciences Center.


This interdisciplinary team has expertise in fisheries, aquatic vegetation, wildlife, water quality, freshwater mussels and restoring Mississippi River habitat.

Mississippi River Contacts

To find out more about the Upper Mississippi River you may contact us by phone or click on a name to reach us by email. If you have a question or comment about a web page, please describe the page by its title and/or its web address (URL). If you have a request for more information please focus on a specific question. Your questions are important to us and we will reply as quickly as possible.

Mississippi River Team Leader:
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608-785-9982

Mississippi River Planner:
Jim Fischer

608-785-9004

Mississippi River Water Quality Specialist:
John Sullivan

608-785-9995

Mississippi River Wildlife Biologist:
Mark Andersen

608-785-9994

Wildlife Technician:
John Nelson

608-785-9987

Mississippi River Fisheries Supervisor:
Ron Benjamin

608-785-9012

Alma Fisheries Biologist:
Brian Brecka

608-685-6221

Alma Fisheries Technician:
Michelle Marron

608-685-6221

La Crosse Fisheries Biologist:
David Heath

608-785-9993

La Crosse Fisheries Technician:
Ken Von Ruden

608-785-9988

Prairie du Chien Fisheries Biologist:
Patrick Short

608-326-8818

Mississippi River Habitat Specialist:
Jeff Janvrin

608-785-9005

Mississippi River Monitoring Station

Monitoring Station Team Leader:
Terry Dukerschein

608-781-6360

Fisheries Specialist:
Andrew Bartels

608-781-6361

Fisheries Technician:

608-781-6367

Vegetation Specialist:
Heidi Langrehr

608-781-6362

Water Quality Specialist:
Shawn Giblin

608-781-6363

Water Quality Technician:
Kraig Hoff

608-781-6368

Last Revised: December 15, 2008