This year, visitors to the University of Iowa’s Mobile Museum will get a glimpse of Iowa history that might look like something from a horror movie — a six-foot giant sea scorpion!
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A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Flooding
Undergraduate researcher Yibing Su traveled halfway around the world to study water resources, right after a major flood struck her hometown of Beijing.
Modernizing London’s Sewers
As rain pours down onto a London street, umbrellas pop open and pedestrians scatter. Small fast-moving rivers race down the street, eventually flowing into sewers beneath the city. The storm runoff quickly overtaxes the Victorian-era combined sewer system, parts of which are the “lost rivers of London” that were covered over as the city grew. […]
Unsteady Aerodynamics
When James Buchholz arrived for a Summer Faculty Fellowship at the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colo., last May, he was so excited to be back in the mountains, he immediately set out on a hike. The Assistant IIHR Research Engineer drove to the Florissant Fossil Beds, where he walked among the fossilized […]
Beda Luitel: Finding a Way
by Shianne Gruss In 2009, Beda Luitel left a refugee camp in Nepal with his family, headed for Boise, Idaho. They had spent a total of 18 years in the camp, between their deportation from Bhutan and their resettlement in the western United States. After living in the camp for seven years, Luitel and his […]
Electronics & Instrumentation
Check out the new IIHR Engineering Services website! The Electronics Shop (part of the IIHR Engineering Services team) is staffed by three full-time engineers who assist researchers in the selection, use, calibration, and care of data-acquisition equipment and systems for a broad range of model and field research. Several levels of instruments to measure a […]
Construction and Fabrication
Check out the new IIHR Engineering Services website! IIHR has a long tradition of success in experimental laboratory studies. A crucial factor in this success has been and continues to be the well-equipped Mechanical Shop and its dedicated, highly-competent technical staff. In addition to providing precision fabrication skills, the IIHR Engineering Services (IES) team specializes […]
IIHR Engineering Services
Visit the new IIHR Engineering Services website IIHR Engineering Services has the experience, expertise, and cutting-edge techniques to successfully complete your hydraulic modeling projects. Contact us today to find out how IIHR can help! About IES: IIHR Engineering Services is dedicated to advancing the institute’s mission of research, education, and service, and to helping clients worldwide […]
PCBs: A Disturbing Legacy and Ongoing Threat
PCBs were outlawed in the 1970s — so why don’t levels keep going down? Unfortunately, PCBs are almost everywhere. IIHR Research Engineer Keri Hornbuckle is well aware of how thoroughly PCBs have permeated our environment. What she wasn’t expecting to find was PCB11 — which had rarely before been reported — in the air near […]
