A University of Iowa researcher is working toward commercializing a new method to estimate river flow, which will provide more accurate real-time data and improve water engineering and public safety.
Marian Muste, a research engineer in the UI College of Engineering and the inventor of the method HyGage, said his team received a patent for the project in January.
The project, Muste said, has been supported by more than $1.5 million in funding from the National Science Foundation, and the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology, a national research partnership led by the University of Alabama that turns advanced water science into real-world tools…