A paper on “CREST/EF5 capacity building to enhance resilience to hydrodynamic disasters in emerging regions” was published in the African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, providing a history of CREST/EF5 hydrologic modeling and focusing on building capacity for forecasters and decision makers to use EF5 operationally. The paper was co-authored by 2015 SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (AST) PI Yang Hong, Teshome L. Yami, Shang Gao, Mengye Chen, Zhi Li and Laura Labriola, (all of the University of Oklahoma, Norman), Calvince Wara of the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) / SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa, and Feleke Z. Beshah of Addis Ababa University. As a result of co-development activities between the AST project and RCMRD, the Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment is now running EF5 independently and the EF5 model has been used to plan water supply intakes in towns that don’t have stream gauges.
