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