To help Iowans prepare for flood season, the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) developed the Iowa Flood Information System (IFIS) to provide real-time information about stream levels, flood alerts and forecasts, and hydrologic conditions for the entire state.
The new Center for Hydrologic Development will leverage the skills and expertise of the Iowa Flood Center to advance the goals of the $360 million NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology to build a more water and weather-ready nation.
Director Krajewski will present significant aspects of his work that has built a more flood-resilient Iowa during the UI’s 40th Presidential Lecture.
University of Iowa and Iowa Flood Center PhD student Riley Post hopes his research changes the way we fight floods.
Read more about IIHR’s Ibrahim Demir and his work in hydroinformatics and on the Iowa Flood Information System (IFIS).
Members of the Iowa Watershed Approach met to celebrate the end of the project with a tour to several project locations in Eastern Iowa.
Kaleb Young may have come to Iowa for wrestling, but he decided to stay as he turns his love for the outdoors into a career in water, flooding, and sustainability.
Iowa Flood Center researchers will play a critical role in the new national center by contributing expertise in hydroinformatics, flood monitoring and mapping, and outreach.
Elliot Anderson is using storms to his advantage as he researches the difference in phosphorus content during base and peak flows of Iowa rivers.
The Iowa Watershed Approach has spent the last five years bringing Iowans together to understand their flood and water resource challenges and to implement flood mitigation projects to build more resilient watershed communities.
