RileyPost, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering and graduate research assistant at IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering, describes how well-managed dams and smart forecasting can limit flooding in our future.

As extreme storms become more frequent in a warming world, well-managed dams and improved forecasting are crucial for limiting flooding.

Lithium, a mineral often used for electric car batteries, has been in high demand across the world for years. Researchers at University of Iowa are doing their part to prevent a shortage and reduce outsourcing to other countries.

Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa’s Karl Kammermeyer Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, will lead a new international initiative of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) called the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W).

Emily Shull recently graduated from the University of Iowa College of Engineering with a PhD in industrial and systems engineering. Soon she will begin her professional career as a general engineer at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

The Iowa Geologic Site and Sample Tracking Program, a University of Iowa repository of 10 million feet of drilling samples, has rock chips from more than 40,000 wells and nearly 60,000 driller’s logs from across the state.

Synthetic chemicals that persist indefinitely in the environment have been detected in the water of several deep wells in parts of Iowa with porous bedrock, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.