Hazus Flood Modelling

Hazus Flood Modelling

I led a team of people using FEMA’s Hazus-MH (Multi-Hazard) software to model flood risk to 2 dozen Illinois communities as part of a larger project to measure perceived vs actual risk of flood in those communities. Hazus can be finicky software, so we tried...
Baton Rouge Flooding Static Map

Baton Rouge Flooding Static Map

I created this static map as part of Nicholas Pinter’s Natural Hazards Mitigation Group’s analysis of flood inundation in the 2016 flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The corresponding interactive map can be found here.
Baton Rouge Flooding Detection

Baton Rouge Flooding Detection

In response to flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as a result of storms in August 2016, we detected flooding using satellite imagery to determine the extent of inundation as it compared to mapped floodplains. The darker blue shows flood inundation on Aug. 14, 2016,...

Flood Mitigation and Suitability Modelling

I did all of the programming, GIS, and statistical modelling for a multi-phase National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project to determine mitigation potential for flooding in small midwestern towns. The picture above is from a mockup of an interface we designed to...

PISCES and arcpy_metadata at SCGIS 2016

. In this presentation from the Society for Conservation GIS Conference in 2016, I presented on some of the work I’ve done at the Center for Watershed Sciences. I discuss PISCES, our software to manage, analyze, and display fish species range information, as...