Weber is former director of the University of Iowa's IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering. He also is former executive associate dean of the College of Engineering. His areas of research include:

• Large-river restoration
• Coupling first principles computational fluid dynamics with water quality and individual-based ecological models
• Laboratory and computational modeling of hydraulic structures
• Modeling and design of fish passage facilities
• Open-channel hydraulics and flood inundation modeling
• Linking large-scale watershed models to flood response and resiliency
• Ice mechanics and cold regions engineering

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