PEI Faculty Seminar: “Strange Floods” with James Smith

 

James Smith, the William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and PEI associated faculty, presented, “Strange Floods: The Upper Tail of Flood Peaks in the U.S.” Smith assessed the nature of extreme floods through analyses of records from more than 8,000 stream gaging stations in the United States, and through close studies of catastrophic events such as the 1903 Heppner flood and the Utah flash floods of 2015.

PEI Faculty Seminar: “Strange Floods” with James Smith

Publish Date

March 6, 2019

Presenter(s)

James Smith

Link to Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSLG8KZ91Js

Video Length

51:55

 

James Smith, the William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and PEI associated faculty, presented, “Strange Floods: The Upper Tail of Flood Peaks in the U.S.” Smith assessed the nature of extreme floods through analyses of records from more than 8,000 stream gaging stations in the United States, and through close studies of catastrophic events such as the 1903 Heppner flood and the Utah flash floods of 2015.