8th Annual Berkeley River Restoration Symposium

Saturday, Dec. 3rd, 9am-3:30pm
112 Wurster Hall, UC, Berkeley

The draft symposium program is now available online.

The program includes a keynote address by Hervé Piégay, well-known fluvial geomorphologist in Lyon, France on “River restoration in human-modified landscapes” and independent graduate student research presentations, whose topics include:

• Parking lot runoff to El Cerrito Creek and restoration opportunities
• Urban creek stewardship, North Fork Strawberry Creek
• Post-project appraisal of Codornices Creek restoration
• Minimum water levels for fish stranding, Russian River basin
• Reconnecting Spring Branch to tidal action
• Post-project appraisal of Dry-Putah Creek restoration
• Response to grazing exclosure, Long Creek, Sycan Marsh, Oregon
• Continued channel evolution post-dam removal, Clear Creek, Shasta County

A panel of professionals (Cathy Avila, Matt Deitch, Hervé Piégay, Karen Rippey and Joe Seto) comment on themes raised by the student presentations.

The symposium is free but please register in advance to receive a program/abstracts and refreshments.

Questions and RSVP: contact Raymond Wong, ucbriverrestoration@gmail.com.

This item originally appeared in the Dec. 2011 SRF e-Newsletter.