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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 the Big Sioux River, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe cargo-only railroad bridge between North Sioux City, S.D., and Sioux City, Iowa, partially collapsed at about 11 p.m. June 24.