A professor at Northeastern University hopes his team’s research will build lead time into warnings about river flooding in New England, such as the one that devastated Vermont this month.
The stakes are high, says Samuel Munoz, an associate professor at Northeastern’s Coastal Sustainability Institute in Nahant, Massachusetts.
President Joe Biden declared Vermont a major disaster after July 7-12 floods washed out roads, damaged houses, businesses and farm fields and drowned a 63-year-old Barre man in his home.
Vermonters only had an advance warning of a day or two, Munoz says. “There was no sense of a high risk,” he says.
A grant from the Water Resources Research Center is funding a study by Munoz and…
