Planning for Sea Level Rise: Adapting Coastal Infrastructure

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Affiliates

of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine

Invites you to attend the 2012 Fall Quarterly Meeting:

"Planning for Sea Level Rise: Adapting Coastal Infrastructure"

  Friday, November 9, 2012

7:00 to 9:00 a.m.

 UC Irvine University Club

801 E. Peltason Drive

Irvine, California  92697

AGENDA

Registration and Full Buffet Breakfast - 7:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks -7:30 a.m.

Neil Barnsdale – President, CEE Affiliates

Program -7:45 a.m.

Professor Brett Sanders, Ph.D. – Chair, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

"The Rise and Fall of the Ocean: A Story of Tides, Waves and Long Term Trends"

 

Presentations to Include:



"Atlantis is Sinking, Man the Life Boats-Port of Long Beach Plans for Sea Level Rise”

Douglas A. Thiessen, P.E., Managing Director of Engineering, Port of Long Beach

"Newport Beach Plans for Sea Level Rise-Balboa Island Case Study"

Robert Stein, Assistant City Engineer, City of Newport Beach

"A Recipe for Accurate Coastal Flood Mapping in Urbanized Coastal Lowlands"

Timu Gallien, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine

 



Admission $30 at the door - Includes Full Breakfast Buffet

Please R.S.V.P. to April Heath by Monday, November 5, 2012 at 949.824.0584 or heatha@uci.edu

Complimentary parking available. Free admission for UCI Students.