Flood talk

   Iowa Flood Center Director Witold Krajewski will present “River Networks and Floods” at 5 pm Thursday, Dec. 3, at Cafe Scientifique at T-Spoons (on the corner of Linn and Market Streets in downtown Iowa City.)

    The event is free - just buy some coffee - and open to the public.

Dr. Krajewski is the Rose & Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Iowa and professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Research Engineer at IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering. Earlier this year, he was appointed director of the Iowa Flood Center.  

    Dr. Krajewski will talk about the hydrologic genesis of floods - “small” and “big” ones.  He will discuss the role of rainfall, soil moisture, land cover, and in particular, the role of the stream and river drainage network.  He will illustrate the talk with results of his studies of the Iowa 2008 floods.

 For more information about Cafe Scientifique, go to: http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/cafe/

The web site for the Iowa Flood Center is: 

www.iowafloodcenter.org