Workshop on California Delta and Levee Risk

Invitation to the SCEC Community from Arthur Rodgers, LLNL:

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We are very pleased to invite you to a Workshop on California Delta and Levee Risk, Now and in the Future: Identifying the Research Needs. The Workshop is being sponsored by the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM) and the California Center for Environmental Law & Policy (CCELP) at UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

The workshop, which will be held in Sacramento on September 28-29, 2006 at the at the University of California Center Sacramento, 1130 K Street, Lower Level (LL22) will provide a forum to:
• Identify current vulnerabilities facing the levees, such as structural failure, seismic loading, flooding, terrorism;
• Consider longer term challenges such as climate change, sea level rise and water supply implications; and
• Define research requirements to fill gaps in knowledge and reduce uncertainties in hazard assessments.

Further details and registration form are contained in the attached pdf. Feel free to distribute this invitation to interested colleagues.

We hope you will be able to join us and look forward to seeing you in Sacramento. Please RSVP.

Robin Newmark and Arthur Rodgers
Energy and Environment Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Michael Hanemann
Co-Chair Center for Catastrophic Risk Management
Chancellor's Professor, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
207 Giannini Hall
University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Farber
Sho Sato Professor of Law
Director, Environmental Law Program
University of California, Berkeley