Montana State researcher wins NSF grant to improve flood forecasting

A new grant from the National Science Foundation will help a Montana State University researcher improve the ability to predict floods resulting from rain falling on snow, like the 2022 flooding that pushed the Yellowstone River 14 feet over its banks, sweeping houses, highways and bridges into its roiling waters.

Siwei He, an assistant professor of civil engineering in the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering at Montana State University, was recently awarded a $293,492 EPSCoR, or Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, grant from the NSF to enhance rain-on-snow weather foreca...