{"id":3648,"date":"2019-07-22T14:13:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/school-of-informatics-computing-and-cyber-systems\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2019-07-22T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:13:48","slug":"what-data-teaches-about-flood-forecasting-nau-researcher-co-leading-crowdsourced-app-to-gauge-flood-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/what-data-teaches-about-flood-forecasting-nau-researcher-co-leading-crowdsourced-app-to-gauge-flood-water\/","title":{"rendered":"What data teaches about flood forecasting: NAU researcher co-leading crowdsourced app to gauge flood water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-orleans-81669_1920-1024x681-464x348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-landscape-image wp-image-3649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/new-orleans-81669_1920-1024x681-464x348.jpg 464w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/new-orleans-81669_1920-1024x681-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/new-orleans-81669_1920-1024x681-232x174.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), flooding is the most damaging natural hazard in the world, and most flood damage occurs in cities. As exemplified by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, this damage is projected to rapidly increase, both due to increasing extreme precipitation events and urban sprawl into marshes and floodplains\u2014so it is critical that cities learn to adapt and respond more quickly to floods to save lives and prevent damage to infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future of our nation\u2019s stormwater infrastructure is threatened by a simple irony,\u201d said NAU civil engineer Ben Ruddell, associate professor of the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems. \u201cA city\u2019s engineers, first responders, weather professionals and citizens are not connected to enough flood information where we need it the most: in our own backyards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nau.edu\/ruddell-flood-forecasting\/#.XTYmIi2ZNZ1\">&#8230;continue reading<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), flooding is the most damaging natural hazard in the world, and most flood damage occurs in cities. As exemplified by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, this damage is projected to rapidly increase, both due to increasing extreme precipitation events and urban sprawl into marshes and floodplains\u2014so it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,29,13],"tags":[46,57,25,56,58,31,28,54,55],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grant","category-project","category-research","category-scholarly","tag-asu","tag-cuahsi","tag-fewsion","tag-floods","tag-infrastructure","tag-nsf","tag-siccs","tag-u-of-a","tag-usgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}