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| C. Warren Campbell, Ph.D., P.E., C.F.M. Ogden College of Science and Engineering
Brief Bio Warren Campbell came to Western Kentucky University as a karst (cave and limestone area) researcher. He now resides in a Mecca for karst research and has been busy applying his expertise to help the City of Bowling Green improve the city’s s flood maps. Currently accepted methods for developing sinkhole flood maps have proved inadequate because of flooding and overflow of uphill sinkholes. He has developed a new method using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to find overflowing sinkholes and provide input data to watershed models. The floodplain manager for Bowling Green and Warren County said, “He and his students have done more for us in a term than FEMA has done in 20 years.” Before major hurricanes struck the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas coasts, he had begun developing a floodplain minor at Western Kentucky. Students receiving the minor will be nationally certified as floodplain managers and will be able to provide help and support for major disasters like hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Kentucky Association of Mitigation Managers has adopted his suggested goal of trying to double the number of certified floodplain managers (CFMs) in Kentucky each year for the next five years. If this goal is successful, Kentucky will be among the leaders of the states in the number of floodplain managers and in flood readiness. When he arrived in Kentucky one year ago, the state had only 7 CFMs; Kentucky now has 18. Education
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