Katherine Rowden

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Katherine Rowden is the National Silver Jackets program manager–a program that supports interagency flood and hazard risk reduction, focused on local and regional priorities, and that is housed in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She has partnered with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landslide Hazards Center scientists for many years, mainly in the field of post-fire debris flows. Rowden leads the federal partners Interagency Post-Wildfire Coordination Group and is a participant in the Postfire Subgroup of the federal Interagency Working Group. Prior to her time in USACE, she spent over a decade in the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Hydrology program where she worked on forecasts, warnings, social science, emergency response, interagency coordination, public outreach, planning, policy, research, etc, for floods, droughts, and post-wildfire hazards. She also led the NWS’ Post-Wildfire Hydrology Working Group and was the NWS lead for coordination with the USGS on post-fire debris flow science-to-operations. She was a member of the Department of Interior National Burned Area Emergency Response Team and has been deployed to several wildfire federal disasters to help coordinate interagency post-fire response and recovery on state and private lands.