Current Projects
IIHR research staff and students surveyed the Iowa River with a multibeam echosounder just one month after the June 2008 flood. Data from this survey are used to create detailed images of the river bottom.
The Iowa Flood Center hosts a range of research projects at The University of Iowa and Iowa State University. Most of these are funded directly by the Center; others are funded by the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies.
Current Projects
- A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008
- River Stage Sensors
- Underwater Stream Sensors
- Mapping Upstream Basin Boundaries for Iowa Communities
- River Modeling as a Tool for Public Flood Preparedness
- Flood Inundation Maps of the Iowa River
- Applications of the Distributed Flood Forecasting System
- Accuracy of Long-Range Probability Flood Forecasts for Iowa Rivers
- Improved Precipitation Forecasting for Iowa
- The Impact of the 2008 Midwest Flood on the Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone”
