The Iowa Geological Survey is undertaking a comprehensive five-year project to survey and assess Iowa's 900 miles of levees using cutting-edge geophysical technology, an important precautionary measure to ensure flood protection is ready for the next natural disaster.

A $500,000 NASA grant led by Xi Chen, principal investigator, and Jun Wang, co-investigator, will leverage state-of-the-art satellite-based measurements of aerosol optical centroid height (AOCH) — a key indicator of smoke layer altitude.

Tyler Bell, engineering associate professor, and Ali Hasan, philosophy associate professor and department chair, will co-teach the core class for University of Iowa's new artificial intelligence certificate.

Tyler Bell, a University of Iowa associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, contributed to studies of AI-integrated virtual reality training for teacher preparation, which won the Thomas N. Urban Research Award.

George Barrera is a third year graduate student in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering.

River to River host Ben Kieffer spoke with Aislinn Conrad, a former child welfare investigator, and mechanical engineer Karim Abdel-Malek. The two are developing an AI system that monitors physical behaviors to detect violence as it happens.

Pranev Karthik, a finance and business analytics information systems major, and Lane Neshiem, a mechanical engineering major, won the $500 People’s Choice award at the fall IdeaStorm competition for SmartStack Systems, an all-in-one stacked washer and dryer system.

Host Ben Kieffer speaks with director of IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering Larry Weber about the implications if we no longer track water quality and the effort to fund the network of 60 sensors across the state.

Elliot Anderson, Jerald Schnoor, and Larry Weber participated in an event called Our Water, Our Future. It provided an in-depth look at the Central Iowa Source Water Research Assessment, which studied central Iowa’s Des Moines and Raccoon watersheds.

Larry Weber from the UI Center for Hydrologic Development said residents felt the impact of increased pollution this summer. “This summer, the nitrate levels were above 20 milligrams per liter, more than double the safe water drinking levels,” Weber said. “When we go back 50 years, the nitrate levels were one to 3 milligrams per liter.”