You are invited to the sixth annual Berkeley River Restoration Symposium. The symposium is free and open to the public.

Saturday, December 6, 2008
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Wurster Hall Auditorium (Rm. 112)
University of California, Berkeley

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

For more information, including the schedule of events, see the Berkeley River Restoration Symposium Website.

The symposium 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, 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).

About the Class and Symposium
Restoration of Rivers and Streams (LD ARCH 227) - Taught since 1992 (the longest-running course devoted to river restoration at a major research university), this course emphasizes understanding of underlying goals and assumptions of restoration and integration of science into restoration planning and design. Students review restoration plans and evaluate completed projects. In addition to lectures and discussions by the instructor, students, and an extraordinary set of guest lecturers drawn from the active restoration community, the principal course requirement is an independent term project involving original research and a presentation at this Symposium. The term projects are peer-reviewed, revised, and ultimately added to the permanent, web-searchable collection of the UC Water Resources Center Archives. Restoration of Rivers and Streams is taught by Professor Matt Kondolf. Paul Atwood (Water Resources Center Archives) developed the website and on-line access to class research papers.