Get Involved

Join us in our mission to sustain vibrant, healthy riverscapes where thriving ecosystems and human societies can coexist and benefit one another for a more resilient future.

We want to support anyone interested in the health of riverscapes and work collectively to advance the science and build a robust community that is equipped to meet the urgent threats to riverscapes around the world.

How we do that through the The Riverscapes Consortium is by connecting people with the right resources and individuals. We also strongly encourage and facilitate the self-organization of communities that can support each other.

Find RC resources

Find our most common resources so you can get your questions answered quickly.

Check out our Knowledge Base

Our Knowledge Base is a collection of articles, tutorials, and other resources to help you get the most out of the Riverscapes Consortium. It is constantly growing and augmetns individual tool and app website documentation (e.g. Models like BRAT or VBET, or Apps like Riverscapes Studio).

Get Help from our Application Support Specialists

Our Application Support Specialists are available to help answer your questions and direct you to resources or other experts who can help. You can reach them by submitting a support ticket throuh our helpdesk (Note the same form is available in the lower right Help button).

RC Discussion Board

Join the community discussion on Github and ask questions, post ideas, and report bugs.

Application or Model Specific Support

If you seek support for how to use a specific Riverscapes Consortium Application, or a Riverscapes Compliant Model, visit those specific websites. Each application and model have different development teams, different levels of available support.

Find further support for your work

To find more support, our broader Riverscapes Consortium community is available to connect with on our discussions boards. If you can’t find what you need, please connect with one of our experts.

Give Support

The opportunity to effect durable change in riverscape health is now. Here are a few ways you can give support:

1. Share and promote your work Join the RC Data Exchange, contribute a photo or photo series to Phlux, or share your riverscape-related event or workshop.

2. Become a riverscapes champion. Read, learn, and share our impact stories to inspire others who want make a difference in riverscape health. Explore our impact stories.

Ongoing Supporters

The Riverscapes Consortium is grateful for the continued support from various organizations.

Supporters and investors in the development of the Riverscape Consortium Applications, Models and Standards include:

• The US Bureau of Land Management’s Aquatic Resources Program
• The US Natural Resources Conservation Service’s
  • Working Lands for Wildlife Program
  • Conservation Effects Assessment Project
• NASA Ecological Forecasting Program
• The US National Forest Service's Pac-Fish In-Fish Biological Opinion (PIBO) Program

Many other organizations have provided smaller grants and financial support to the various development teams and research groups behind specific Riverscapes Compliant Tools. Visit the tool acknowledgement pages for more information. Similarly, see sponsors of the production of specific Riverscapes Projects hosted in the Data Exchange to see the diversity of support.

If you are interested in learning more about supporting the work we do, please get in touch with the Riverscapes Consortium Management Team or one of the specific model developers, contributors, or scientists.