ICE! Ice Jam Hazard Mobile-Friendly Website

Ice jams are a major hazard. The project team worked with the US Army Corps of Engineers, National Weather Service, Silver Jackets, and USGS stakeholders to develop a mobile-friendly prototype of an Ice Jam Hazard website and reporting system.  The prototype shows how ice jam conditions can be recorded nationwide. The public can view and download ice jam information. Historic ice jam locations and frequencies, as well as potentially hazardous developing ice jams, are valuable data. Given the science, modeling, and hazard warning potential provided by this data, continued development of this system is widely supported.

The prototype system consists of an Angular-Material framework javascript client hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service, .Net Core web services deployed using containerization on AWS Fargate, and an AWS Relational Database Service PostgreSQL instance. This cloud-first system enriches the collective USGS experience in working with the latest cloud technologies.

Principal Investigator : Katherine J Chase
Co-Investigator : Hans W Vraga, Lauren M Privette, Jeremy K Newson
Cooperator/Partner : Tony Krause, Arin Peters