Berkeley River Restoration Symposium

Sat, Dec 6th 2008, 9:00am - 1:00pm
Berkeley River Restoration Symposium

The symposium (free and open to the public) features:

A keynote talk "The Trinity River, the Peripheral Canal, and the Future of Water in California" by Tom Stokely, Trinity County Planning Department, who draws upon his two decades of experience as an active player in restoration of the Trinity River.

Graduate student research projects on topics including post-project appraisal of the Chorro Flats restoration project (San Luis Obispo County) a decade after construction, assessment of riparian vegetation establishment at the Tassajara Ck compound channel project (Alameda County), potential applications of the geomorphically active flood concept to a reach of the lower San Joaquin River, a survey of the effectiveness of instream structures, monitoring of bed mobility and bank erosion as a basis for defining setbacks on Carneros Ck (Napa County), and assessment of surface-groundwater interactions on San Gregorio Ck (San Mateo County).

A panel discussion of issues raised by student research projects featuring leading professionals in the field, including Stephanie Carlson (Dept Environmental Science, Policy, and Management UCB), HanBin Liang (WRECO Consultants), and Manny DaCosta (Alameda County Public Works).

Presented by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Beatrix Farrand Fund, the California Water Resources Center Archives.

For updated schedule and abstracts (available soon) see:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/227_08.html