IIHR Director Larry Weber (front, center) with members of IIHR's fish passage research group in the 1/64th-scale Priest Rapids tailrace model.

IIHR Director Larry Weber (right) leads the Iowa Watersheds Project, which is designed to help determine whether farm ponds and other constructed improvements can make a difference in reducing flood damage.

Research Areas
Fish passage facilities
Physical modeling
River hydraulics
Hydropower
Computational hydraulics
Ice mechanics
Water quality
Watershed processes

Students
Elliot Anderson
Adam Weis
Samuel Landsteiner