Welcome to River Continuum Concepts

Welcome to River Continuum Concepts! This organization was started by Brett Marshall to help small organizations plan and conduct aquatic environmental monitoring. The name, "River Continuum Concepts" is a play on words--referring to the River Continuum Concept (Vannote et al. 1980)--one of the keystone synthesis papers on river and stream ecology.

We use applied statistical know-how with scientific knowledge (like the River Continuum Concept, intermediate disturbance hypothesis, serial discontinuity theory and others) to design custom, goal oriented monitoring programs for aquatic ecosystems.

What We Do

There are many companies and institutions involved with aquatic ecological monitoring. My team specializes in helping small organizations, like conservation districts, make sense out of monitoring protocols to ensure that monitoring efforts are able to address resource management needs.

Our team is lead by Brett Marshall, an aquatic ecologist that began designing aquatic ecology studies in Wisconsin in 1987. During these 20+ years of experience, Brett's work has been recognized by academia, government, and industry as cutting edge. One of the benefits of this experience is contacts; we have connections with researchers around the country and can bring in expertise as needed for especially complicated or large monitoring programs.