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New! IFIS Automatic Text Alerts
By Mikael Mulugeta A new Iowa Flood Information System (IFIS) service will change how Iowans receive important flooding alerts. The automated alert feature, accessible from the front page of IFIS, allows users to receive IFIS alerts via text message, phone call, or social media when sensors record certain flood levels. Users can select an IFIS […]
The Soap Creek Tour
The Iowa Flood Center and local partners organized a tour of the Soap Creek Watershed on Sept. 12 that attracted more than 75 people from around the state.
Artificial Intelligence May Revolutionize Natural Disasters
Thoughts go out to Harvey flood victims
Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with those impacted by the devastating floods caused by Hurricane Harvey. Iowans remember the 2008 floods that wreaked havoc across our state. Through the chaos, we came together and built back a more resilient Iowa. Iowa Flood Center experts reflect on the extreme flooding in Texas: IFC Director Witold Krajewski compares […]
Iowa Flood Center compares Harvey to floods of ’08
Hurricane expert says Houston will help Iowa learn
Summer at the National Water Center
Lauren Grimley, an IFC graduate research assistant, worked with researchers from various universities as part of the National Water Center Innovators Program Summer Institute.
IFC Director Krajewski to Receive Medal
Making a Difference for the River
By Jackie Stolze According to IIHR’s Dan Ceynar, a dedicated river clean-up volunteer, Project AWARE (A Watershed Awareness River Expedition) is like RAGBRAI on the river – minus the partying. It must have been an amazing sight—dozens and dozens of canoes floating down the Upper Cedar River. Every now and then, one of the volunteers […]
