Nathan Young is Associate Director of the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa’s IIHR¬Hydroscience & Engineering and has a joint appointment with The Water Institute of the Gulf as a senior research scientist in engineering. Nathan has worked as a consulting engineer and academic researcher in field of river hydraulics, performing field measurements, laboratory experiments, and numerical simulations for river flows in support of a broad range of applications, including fish passage, aquatic habitat assessment, nutrient transport, and flood risk management.