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Following the devastating floods in 2008 deemed as “Iowa’s Katrina,” state legislators created the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) in 2009 based at the University of Iowa. IFC is the nation’s only academic research center devoted solely to flooding that puts science-based information in the hands of Iowa’s decision-makers, lawmakers, state and federal agencies, emergency responders, and the public. The IFC has transformed flood resilience in Iowa focused on advancing flood monitoring and prediction, flood inundation mapping, flood mitigation, and education and outreach. The center communicates reliable, real-time flood information through its popular publicly accessible Iowa Flood Information System online web application. The IFC has helped bring more than $100M in funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to the state of Iowa to advance watershed-based flood management efforts. The presentation will introduce some of IFC’s major initiatives and activities that have the potential to be replicated to support flood resilience efforts across the country.
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Daniel Gilles is the Water Resources Engineer for the Iowa Flood Center with a special interest in ecohydraulics. He develops flood models to simulate how flooding occurs in communities. These models are used to create libraries of inundation maps and to identify potential flood mitigation projects, ultimately creating the capacity for communities to evaluate and reduce flood risk. Daniel is also involved in the Iowa Watershed Approach project where he develops digital watershed models that simulate how rainfall is transformed into stream flow. These watershed models are used to develop a hydrologic assessment to better understand where runoff is being created and what practices can be implemented to reduce runoff. He has an M.S. in Hydroscience and Engineering from the University of Iowa and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering also from the University of Iowa.
Breanna Shea is the program manager for communications and outreach for the Iowa Flood Center. She develops and implements communications and outreach programs for IFC projects. This includes serving as an effective and knowledgeable liaison between the Iowa Flood Center staff and external stakeholders, including agency personnel, policy-makers, community leaders, and the general public. She has an M.A. in Strategic Communication from the University of Iowa and a B.S. in Animal Ecology from Iowa State University.
