10th Annual Berkeley River Restoration Symposium
The symposium begins with a keynote talk, ‘Two decades of river restoration in the Central Valley: from the Bay-Delta Accord to the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan’ by John Cain (American Rivers), a timely review of past experience and ongoing efforts to restore ecosystem functions within the Central Valley. This talk will be followed by presentations of post-doctoral and graduate student research.
This year’s symposium features a new element: A policy forum on ‘Managing stormwater in California, our current crisis and a new pathway to sustainability?’ presented by Mitch Avalon (consultant, Contra Costa County Flood Control), with a broad-based, moderated discussion.
Post-doctoral and doctoral research topics include subsurface flow in gravel bars, restoration of Sierran meadows, and concrete channels of the SF Bay region. Graduate student research topics in River Restoration include post-project appraisals of restoration projects on Sausal and Peralta Creeks and the Lake Merritt channel in Oakland, and on Boyle Park in Marin County; effects of WPA-era riprap on fish habitat in Redwood Ck in Muir Woods; and channel evolution in the Upper Truckee River, South Lake Tahoe.
The symposium is free and open to the public, but you must register online at the URL below if you want a program, coffee and light lunch reserved for you.
http://ced.berkeley.edu/courses/fa11/ldarch227/symposium.html