Geography
Culvert Crawlers
When floods hit Vermont’s rivers, the damage to roads, culverts, and infrastructure is scattered and hard to track. Communities had no shared way to report what they were seeing, and no way to see the bigger picture across towns and watersheds. Researchers studying flood impacts were stuck stitching together incomplete records after the fact.
What changed
Anyone in the field can now report flood effects from their phone — even without cell service — and see every report mapped alongside state culvert data and other sources. Researchers get clean, reviewed data. Communities get a shared picture of what’s happening.
Field-ready survey with offline sync
A reporting form built directly into the app: no Qualtrics dependency, no internet required. Submissions queue locally and sync automatically when connectivity returns.
Multi-layer interactive map
Community reports, state culvert surveys, and external datasets visualized as filterable, color-coded layers. Time series and event overlays reveal patterns across floods and watersheds.
Review workflow & role-based access
In-the-field reporters, researchers, and reviewers each see what they need. Submissions go through a review pipeline before publication, keeping the shared dataset clean and trustworthy.