Articles from January 2025

Vanessa Robledo on the IIHR patio overlooking the Iowa River

Weather and Water: Improving Flash Flood Predictions

Thursday, January 23, 2025
Vanessa Robledo, a second-year PhD student in civil and environmental engineering (CEE), is helping improve the Iowa Flood Center’s abilities to better forecast flash flood events. Building on her master’s studies in meteorology from Medellin, Colombia, her research focuses on improving methods for predicting weather patterns to enhance flood forecasting.
A hydrostation out in a field

Lab to Land

Thursday, January 9, 2025
Iowa researchers are working to solve some of our state’s most significant environmental challenges. That includes experts from the UI College of Engineering who are using a living laboratory to conduct innovative sustainability research and scientists who have deployed a vast network of climate sensors to prepare for the growing impact of extreme weather events.