The authors would also like to acknowledge Jonathan (JP) Traylor, Moussa Guira and Wade Kress (of the U.S. Geological Survey [USGS]) for technical discussions that shaped the model development. Martha Nielsen (USGS) and Daniel Abrams (Illinois State Water Survey) provided thoughtful review comments that greatly improved the quality of the report. Sam Rendon (USGS) worked on a Hydrologic Engineering Center River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) simulation of interior streams in the Mississippi Delta as a potential alternative method for simulating stream stage. Aaron Heldmyer (USGS) selected and compiled the downscaled General Circulation Model outputs for the future climate scenarios. Steve Westenbroek (USGS) ran a version of the Soil-Water-Balance code model with each set of downscaled climate output and provided us with the results.