The Hydroscience and Engineering unit at the University of Iowa, or the IIHR, is expanding its research on the Mississippi River, to better understand and improve the way fish navigate through ...

In 2008, the University of Iowa suffered a devastating flood. In a changing world, what happened next has lessons that go far beyond the Hawkeye state.

University of Iowa graduate student Federico Antolini proposes small reservoirs like ponds could mitigate flooding better than dams. Cecilia Shearon Flood attenuation and climate change researcher ...

The University of Iowa's world ... Based in the C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory — a 104-year-old five-story brick building on the banks of the Iowa River — IIHR ... dams and spillways ...

Researchers are tracking how much sediment has been excavated since the river cut its new path. They hope to share the information with other communities with aging, at-risk dams.

Alongside the bridge project, the city is considering funding a study that would determine if it should demolish the low-head dam, dating from 1906. directly below the bridge on the Iowa River.

Iowa City Assistant City Manager Ashley Monroe expressed her concerns about such weather events, specifically when it comes to Iowa’s infrastructure. “We still are seeing the very real impacts of the ...

Researchers studying habits of Iowa’s ... dead in a 42-mile section of the Des Moines River, from the dam at Eldon to the ... DNR and Iowa State University began working together ...

DNR River Programs Coordinator Nate Hoogeveen says the Palisades Kepler State Park gets a lot of visitors. “It’s in an urbanized corridor, you know, basically along the Iowa City cedar Cedar ...

On this episode of River to River, Tyler Jett of the Des Moines Register details the latest court filings in the cases of UI and ISU student-athletes and student managers charged with online gambling.

Three men died Sunday after their boat capsized below Lock and Dam No. 12 on the Mississippi River at Bellevue in northeast Iowa, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported. The DNR said in ...

Vicki Hodges and Sharon Kahn died in 2020 after tubing over a hard-to-see dam in Fayette County. Their family's lawsuit has been revived on appeal.