{"id":4890,"date":"2025-12-08T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:47:56","slug":"nre-research-spotlighted-for-advancing-flood-protection-in-appalachia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2025\/12\/08\/nre-research-spotlighted-for-advancing-flood-protection-in-appalachia\/","title":{"rendered":"NRE research spotlighted for advancing flood protection in Appalachia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full feature at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/improving-flood-monitoring-and-prediction-in-eastern-kentucky-through-real-time-data.htm\">Environmental Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; the Environment (NRE), was recently featured in Environmental Monitor as part of a story highlighting the multi-state FLASH and CLIMBS research efforts in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":4891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,54,75,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nres","category-nre","category-research","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/nre-armstead-flash-climbs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}