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New publication simplifies compound flood modeling for resilience applications
In a new paper published last month in AGU’s Water Resources Research, IRIS affiliates Felix Santiago-Collazo, Matt Bilskie and experts from Louisiana State University describe how they attempted to make compound flooding easier to understand. Instead of creating a large framework that accounts for any number of the small factors that influence flooding events, the…
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IRIS affiliate Matt Bilskie examines the gaps in the natural infrastructure research and implementation
In a recent literature review, IRIS affiliate Dr. Matthew Bilskie and a team of colleagues from universities around the country investigated the roadblocks and knowledge gaps in the pathway to natural infrastructure implementation. The analysis included 141 publications on natural infrastructure for coastal flood mitigation. Most of the studies (61%) were at local scales, and…
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Predicting Uncertainty: IRIS researchers develop models to more accurately predict and map flood zones
Flooding in urban areas cost Americans over $106 billion dollars from 1960 through 2016 in damage, and took lives and livelihoods. Predicting which areas are most likely to flood amid changing land use and rainfall can be expensive and complicated—and past methods of drawing flood maps fail to capture the inherent uncertainty in flood predictions.…
