Other Research Initiatives

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) equipment has important applications in monitoring air pollution.
IIHR nurtures and facilitates a host of diverse research initiatives every year, which provide opportunities for researchers and students to develop innovations in a variety of areas, including water and air resources, environmental hydraulics, fluid mechanics, and more. Here’s a sample of the recent research at IIHR:
- Bioremediation
- Wind energy research
- Mussels as water-quality sensors
- Social vulnerability and flooding
- Looking inside a glacier with ground-penetrating radar
- Combining flows at an open channel junction
- Effects of oil on coastal plants
- Historical studies
- LiDAR applications in air pollution monitoring
- Living snow fences
- Measurement of aerosols emitted from hog confinements
- Mitigating corrosion of steel bridges
- Phytoremediation
- Self-cleaning culverts
- Studying ice to improve Iowa’s winter road conditions
- Understanding PCBs
- Unsteady aerodynamics
- Water resources management
- Others