{"id":7,"date":"2013-09-18T20:49:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T20:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/flood\/?p=6"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:27:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:27:05","slug":"cires-noaa-and-cu-flood-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/2013\/09\/18\/cires-noaa-and-cu-flood-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"CIRES, NOAA and CU flood contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Journalists, please contact Katy Human, CIRES Communications Director, for information about reaching these scientists. kathleen.human@colorado.edu, 303-735-0196<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kristen Averyt<\/strong>
\nDirector of the Western Water Assessment, a program of NOAA and CIRES<\/em>
\nDr. Averyt can speak to drought, drought-flood cycles, and the impact of the recent rains on Colorado’s drought situation.<\/p>\n

Brian Ebel<\/strong>
\nCIRES Visiting Fellow, CU-Boulder<\/em>
\nDr. Ebel is a hydrologist who has been working closely with the U.S. Geological Survey on the impact of forest fires on hydrology, from the water quantity (not quality) angle. He can discuss the kinds of impacts that fire is known to have, what\u2019s not known, and why it\u2019s important to understand these impacts.<\/p>\n

Martin Hoerling<\/strong>
\nNOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory<\/em>
\nDr. Hoerling is a research meteorologist who specializes in diagnosing the proximate and ultimate causes behind extreme weather events, such as floods, heat waves, tornado outbreaks, and more. He can also discuss the recent storm and flood events in context of historic events and statistics.<\/p>\n

Kelly Mahoney<\/strong>
\nCIRES scientist at NOAA\u2019s Earth System Research Laboratory<\/em>
\nDr. Mahoney can compare this flood with the Big Thompson and other historical floods. She can also discuss the future of this kind of extreme event, given climate change.<\/p>\n

James Meldrum<\/strong>
\nThe Western Water Assessment, a program of NOAA and CIRES, and CU-Boulder\u2019s Institute of Behavioral Science<\/em>
\nDr. Meldrum researches individuals’ decisions about natural hazard risks. Part of his Ph.D. addressed flood insurance and whether being in a floodplain influenced people’s willingness to pay for housing in Boulder County, Colorado.<\/p>\n

Klaus Wolter<\/strong>
\nCIRES scientist at NOAA\u2019s Earth System Research Laboratory<\/em>
\nDr. Wolter, who lives near Jamestown, is limited in his availability for interviews. He is is occasionally able to discuss, primarily through email: the meteorological situation leading up to the recent storms and flooding, the history of disastrous floods in Colorado, and the impact of wildfire on flood events.<\/p>\n

Photo of Boulder Creek by David Oonk, CIRES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Journalists, please contact Katy Human, CIRES Communications Director, for information about reaching these scientists. kathleen.human@colorado.edu, 303-735-0196 Kristen Averyt Director of the Western Water Assessment, a program of NOAA and CIRES Dr. Averyt can speak to drought, drought-flood cycles, and the impact of the recent rains on Colorado’s drought situation. Brian Ebel CIRES Visiting Fellow, CU-Boulder… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,11,13,16,19,22,23,25,28,32,36],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-resources","tag-climate-change","tag-contacts","tag-drought","tag-extremes","tag-floods","tag-history","tag-hydrology","tag-meteorology","tag-natural-variability","tag-precipitation","tag-rainfall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 23:38:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/flood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}