Description: This presentation will describe the June 2024 flooding in northwest Iowa, including reviewing the conditions leading to flooding, the field campaign for collecting high-water marks, and the updated peak-flow frequency analysis.

Authors: Padraic O’Shea

Author Bio: Padraic O’Shea is a Statistician with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Central Midwest Water Science Center, in the Iowa City, Iowa office. Padraic has worked in the Center (formerly the Iowa Water Science Center) since 2014. His area of expertise with the USGS is in statistical surface-water hydrology. His current work includes the prediction of peak streamflow in ungaged basins by statistical regionalization, the development of regional skew for use in regional peak streamflow studies, and the investigation of potential trends in peak streamflow in the Midwest, among other projects. He holds a Bachelor’s in Statistics and a Bachelor’s in Marketing from the University of Iowa