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August 26, 2020
Three years out of my college degree, on my second major data collection project as a geospatial analyst with Dewberry, I found myself in the back of a twin-engine Piper Navajo, wearing a full flight suit and headgear, operating two different lidar sensors aimed at the wetlands below. The Florida…
August 26, 2020
When Hurricane Harvey made landfall just a couple of weeks ago, it came with record-setting numbers. The total 51.88 inches of rain that fell was the most from one storm in continental U.S. history—to put things into perspective, it takes Texas an average of 15 months to accumulate 50 inches of…
August 26, 2020
Seth Bradley, Chris Sliwinski, Tom Moran, Siddharth Pandey, Jeff Gangai and Rebecca Hernandez
More than 50 Dewberry employees from four offices have been involved in assisting FEMA following the Louisiana floods this past summer and Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew in the fall. Responsibilities have included development of critical flood depth grids to determine impacts as well as thousands…
August 26, 2020
Jerri Daniels
On Friday, August 12, I was flying home to Louisiana after working in the Fairfax, Virginia, office that week. I live in Springfield, about 60 miles north of our office in New Orleans. I noticed that my weather apps had been posting storm warnings for southeastern Louisiana, and then I began to get…
August 26, 2020
Laurel McGinley and Juan Nieves
In the past year, major flood events in the U.S. have resulted in $12 to $15 billion in damages to housing and infrastructure, including damage to approximately 175,000 homes. This trend is expected to continue as climate change continues to impact normal weather, making it more extreme. What can…
August 26, 2020
Lt. Col. Cullen Jones
During my Training with Industry fellowship, one of the things I have been most impressed and inspired by is the quality of Dewberry leadership at all levels and how they engage and inspire their teams. This did not come to me as a surprise given the large number of Army alumni currently at…
August 26, 2020
William Massey
It only takes one storm to change your life and community. The theme of this year’s Hurricane Preparedness Week, along with the reminder #ItOnlyTakesOne, underscores the devastating power of tropical cyclones. Scheduled for May 15-21, Hurricane Preparedness Week will focus on encouraging states…
August 26, 2020
Adam Hales
Surveyors who originally crossed the U.S. looked a lot different than the modern surveyor. These frontiersmen carried survival equipment along with their chains, compasses, and theodolites (an instrument used to measure horizontal and vertical angles). They marked territory by notching trees and…
August 26, 2020
Army installations like Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, strive to make the next great contribution to our national defense, medical research knowledge, and worldwide communications tools. When all of the installation's cylinders are running on peak capacity, it demands close to 40 MW of energy…
August 26, 2020
Vikram Shrivastava and Samara Ebinger
We frequently attend local and national conferences that are focused on the topic of flood risk management. During these conferences, we have the opportunity to speak with local community floodplain managers about the challenges they face on a day-to-day basis and the tools and datasets that can be…
August 26, 2020
Shannon Brewer and Duncan Hastie
In the peak of hurricane season, flooding becomes a concern in many communities throughout the country, just as we recently experienced with Hurricane Joaquin that brought major flooding to the southeast. We believe one of the best ways to protect a community from a similar event is to increase…
August 26, 2020
Larry Olinger, Douglas Frost, Laurel McGinley, Ronald Budzinski, Molly Wagner, Ronald Artigues Jr, Mark Montgomery and Johnise Molloy
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina, a storm with 140mph winds and a presence of nearly 400 miles across, made landfall on the Gulf Coast. She left behind destruction of upwards to an estimated $100 billion, with 80 percent of New Orleans underwater, 234,000 homes damaged or destroyed in Mississippi…
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