This transdisciplinary curriculum is present as a field guide that uses the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 to connect science, history, engineering, ecology, policy, music, migration, and social systems while helping students understand how disasters emerge from interactions between people and the environment. Through maps, experiments, decision-making activities, primary sources, and comparative flood case studies, students investigate how evidence from multiple disciplines can be combined to explain complex events and their long-term consequences. The modules also introduce students to archival research and collection-building, teaching them how to locate, evaluate, contextualize, preserve, describe, and interpret photographs, letters, oral histories, documents, and other primary sources as part of constructing the historical record.
HILAB provides resources and information on latest developments in Hydroinformatics (HI) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their applications on many science and engineering areas.
About HILAB
HILAB is established by Dr. Ibrahim Demir (team) with many collaborators from around the world. HILAB is a collaborative community platform bringing researcher and educators together to work on Hydroinformatics projects. HILAB provides a one-stop resource library on Hydroinformatics.
Hydroinformatics recognizes the inherently social nature of the problems of water management and of decision making processes, and strives to understand the social processes by which technologies are brought into use. Hydroinformatics has a growing world-wide community of researchers and practitioners, and postgraduate programs in Hydroinformatics are offered by many leading institutions. Recent application areas in our lab includes hydrology, water resources and quality, environmental engineering, disaster preparedness, recovery and response.
Created by Heather Redmon, this interactive river map documents historical events that transpired along the 2,350 mile stretch of the Mississippi River. Explore different points to expand your knowledge on the documented effort to preserve communities, history, and culture following events of mass flooding on the second largest river in the North America.
This is a map of the 1927 Great Mississippi River Flood. It is from Records of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. RG 23. The Coast and Geodetic Survey eventually became present-day National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
