The Armstead Lab is gaining national attention for its work to improve flood monitoring and prediction in Appalachian headwater streams. Ongoing research led by Dr. Mindy Yeager-Armstead, professor in Natural Resources & the Environment (NRE), was recently featured in Environmental Monitor as part of a story highlighting the multi-state FLASH and CLIMBS research efforts in Eastern Kentucky.
The FLASH project, The Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters Initiative, is a collaborative NSF RII Track-2 FEC grant (Award No. OIA-2418789) led by the University of Louisville. Dr. Yeager-Armstead’s team is contributing to the grant by developing better flood-prediction tools for small, flood-prone watersheds. Their work links traditional hydrologic models with real-time remote sensing data to better capture changing watershed conditions.
The group’s field site, the Fourpole Creek watershed, experiences frequent and often severe flooding, making it an ideal location to test new monitoring strategies that could strengthen early-warning systems across the region.
Read the full feature at Environmental Monitor.