NPR – Talk of the Nation Earlier this year, floodwaters rose to record heights in the lower Mississippi. Ira Flatow and guests discuss how engineers have boxed in the river with dams, levees and spillways, and whether human-induced climate change might bring more frequent floods. Talk of the Nation Podcast
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Iowa City Press-Citizen The Iowa Flood Center will host two informational webinars to launch its newly updated Iowa Flood Information System at 10:30 a.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Participants will learn how to use the system’s web tools to “provide Iowans with up-to-the-minute community and watershed-specific information” on rainfall, river and stream levels and [...]
Loebsack Applauds Iowa Flood Center’s Efforts on Flood Education Washington D.C. Congressman Dave Loebsack today applauded the University of Iowa’s Iowa Flood Center for their participation in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Hazards Event on the Hill. The Iowa Flood Center was invited to Washington to highlight their advanced work to help address the needs [...]
UI News Release Representatives of the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) at the University of Iowa will participate in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) “Hazards Event on the Hill,” Wednesday, Sept. 7, in the Senate Hart Office Building, Washington, D.C. Participants will include: Witek Krajewski, director, Iowa Flood Center; Larry Weber, director, IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering; and [...]
Homers—What’s Going Right Cedar Rapids Gazette FLOOD WARNING TOOL: The Iowa Flood Center, created in the aftermath of our state’s devastating 2008 floods and housed in the University of Iowa, is collaborating with the National Weather Service to provide all Iowans and their communities with a new tool: online inundation maps that within seconds illustrate [...]
By Christina Crippes, The Hawk Eye Iowa has had a $1 billion natural disaster at least every other year on average for the past 30 years. … Though its 17 to 24 weather and climate disasters since 1980 put it in the top half among the states, Iowa seems an unlikely place to house a [...]
By Diane Heldt, Cedar Rapids Gazette Residents, business owners, and city leaders around Iowa likely will have a new tool during future floods – inundation maps that show flood risk well beyond the reaches of a community’s 100-year floodplain and can be called up with the click of a mouse. The Iowa City-area flood inundation [...]
By Jason Epner, KWWL-TV News Predicting the impact of flooding in the past brought with it a lot of guesswork. “As the flood was happening it was really difficult for community managers and individuals to really appreciate what the National Weather Service forecast meant,” said Nathan Young, Associate Director of the Iowa Flood Center in [...]
By Diane Heldt, KCRG-TV News Residents, business owners and city leaders around Iowa likely will have a new tool during future floods — inundation maps that show flood risk well beyond the reaches of a community’s 100-year floodplain and can be called up with the click of a mouse. The Iowa City-area flood inundation map [...]
By Christinia Crippes The Hawk Eye Iowa has had a $1 billion natural disaster at least every other year on average for the past 30 years. Its numbers, however, pale in comparison to some Southern and Gulf Coast states that average more than one a year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Though [...]
