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WATERWAYS The Official Newsletter of the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute Please click here for a printable view of Waterways. (PDF) FEATURED ARTICLES: Special Hurricane Katrina Coverage
Members Team Up to Assess Hurricane Damage
Hurricane Katrina is sure to be remembered as one of the worst natural disasters the United States has ever seen. The strong winds and record breaking storm surges along the Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana coasts led to devastating circumstances including massive damages and tragic loss of life...
Assessment Teams Release Report on New Orleans COPRI’s New Orleans assessment team joined with teams from ASCE’s Geo-Institute (GI) and the University of California at Berkeley, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). All three teams traveled with an Army data gathering team from the Engineering Research and Development Center to various sites throughout New Orleans to examine and assess damage to the city caused by Hurricane Katrina... Secretary Rumsfeld Authorizes ASCE to Review Hurricane Protection System
In October 2005, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld authorized ASCE to create an external review panel which will conduct a continuing expert review of the performance of the federal government’s Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET). The 12 member panel will provide an objective technical review on IPET’S report findings on the performance of the New Orleans hurricane protection system…
On October 20, 2005 COPRI member Robert A. Dalrymple, Ph.D., P.E. testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Dalrymple spoke regarding “Hurricane and Flood Protection and Water Resources Planning for a Rebuilt Gulf Coast” on behalf of ASCE... Civil Engineers Look at Their Role After Hurricane Katrina
A special session on Hurricane Katrina was held at the ASCE Annual Conference in Los Angeles on October 27, 2005. The session entitled “Recovering from Katrina: Should Civil Engineers Lead?” was moderated by Thomas L. Jackson, P.E., F.ASCE. A panel of speakers including: Marc L. Levitan, Ph.D., Peter Nicholson, Ph.D., P.E., Steven C. McCutcheon, Ph.D., P.E., and COPRI member and assessment team leader Scott Douglass, Ph.D., P.E...
COMMITTEE AND MEMBER UPDATES
It is indeed a pleasure and an honor to serve as the sixth President of COPRI. I have been involved with COPRI and formerly the Waterways Division of ASCE since 1970. During that span of 35 years, I have never seen the members taking such an active role and being so proactive with events as they are today. Earlier this year in a matter of weeks we were able to form a data gathering team of members in response to the December 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia... New Board Members Welcomed to COPRI COPRI is pleased to have Stephen A. Curtis, P.E., David Kriebel, P.E. and James Blanchar, P.E. on the 2005-2006 Board of Governors... Member Spotlight: COPRI President
COPRI is pleased to welcome Billy Edge, Ph.D., P.E. as the 2005-2006 COPRI President. Billy took over on October 31, 2005. He is the W.H. Bauer Professor of Dredging Engineering and Director of the Haynes Coastal Engineering Laboratory at Texas A&M University...
Wetlands Committee Wants Your Input The Wetlands and Sediments Committee is soliciting information for a Resource Guide that is planned as a Web-based resource to... Schwichtenberg to Chair Membership Committee Bradd R. Schwichtenberg, Chief of the Coastal –Navigation Planning Section for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, has been named the new chair of the Membership Committee. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering form California State University Long Beach and a Masters Degree in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University. Anyone interested in becoming involved with the Membership Committee can reach Bradd at Bradd.R.Schwichtenberg@saj02.usace.army.mil San Pedro Bay Ports Receive a Grade “B” in ASCE Infrastructure Report Card for L. A. County:
The Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) requested The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles (San Pedro Bay Ports) participate in a countywide 2005 assessment of infrastructure... Technical Region Director’s Report
All members of the ASCE Board of Direction are expected to communicate effectively with the constituents in their respective regions. The Technical Region is a worldwide, virtual region comprised of ASCE’s seven Technical Institutes. With 91,006 current members, the Technical Region is easily ASCE’S largest region. It will eventually be represented by two ASCE Directors. As a result of the ASCE national election which concluded in August 2005... Meeting Announcement: ASCE/COPRI Seismic Design of Piers & Wharves Standards Committee January 26, 2006, Reston, Virginia
The ASCE/COPRI Seismic Design of Piers & Wharves Standards Committee will meet on January 26, 2006, at the Bechtel Conference Center at ASCE Headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The meeting will be held from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. In addition to administrative items, topics on the agenda include updates from the following task committees: International Codes, Design Approach, Performance Requirements / Risk Criteria, Analysis Methods, Design Considerations, and Non-Structural Elements. For more information on the meeting or the committee, contact Committee Chair Gayle Johnson, P.E., at gjohnson@han-padron.com. CONFERENCES Performace Based Design Discussed at Container Wharf Seismic Code Workshop The Container Wharf Seismic Code Workshop 2005, co-sponsored by the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and COPRI, was conducted on September 13-14, 2005, at the Los Angeles Harbor Hotel in San Pedro, California... Tsunami Data Detailed at Symposium
Last winter when South Asia was struck by an earthquake which led to the massive tsunami, many questions were left unanswered. Experts from around the world traveled to Asia in order to learn what they could to prevent such devastating effects in the future. On October 25, 2005, preceding the ASCE Annual Conference in Los Angeles, COPRI, ASCE’s Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (TCLEE)...
CALL FOR PAPERS Ports™ 2007 “30 years of Sharing Ideas… 1977-2007” March 25-28, 2007 San Diego, CA Deadline to Submit Abstracts is January 22, 2006 http://www.portsconference.org
The conference will offer an all encompassing array of professional/technical papers pertinent to the progress of port and harbor facilities development, inland waterways and navigational improvements. Papers are expected to address the complex, innovative and state-of-the-art technical aspects associated with the planning, design, construction, maintenance and operations of worldwide port and harbor facilities.
CALL FOR PAPERS XIV Pan American Convention of Ocean and Coastal Engineering, UPADI 2006 September 19-22, 2006 Atlanta, GA Deadline to Submit Papers is January 31, 2006 The 2006 Pan American Convention of Ocean and Coastal Engineering will be held in conjunction with UPADI 2006 “Pan American Convention of Engineers,” which ASCE and the National Society of Professional Engineers are hosting in 2006. You are encouraged to submit a paper on the following topics: coastal processes, coastal structures, maritime structures, natural phenomena, and coastal & maritime investigation. CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd National Conference and Expo on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration “Forging the National Imperative” December 9-13, 2006 New Orleans, LA Deadline to Submit Proposals is February 15, 2006
COPRI is pleased to co-sponsor the only national conference that brings together the entire coastal and estuarine habitat community. Abstracts are expected to address all aspects of coastal and estuarine habitat restoration, in all habitats at all scales.
CALL FOR PAPERS Coastal Sediments 2007 “Coastal Engineering and Science in Cascading Spatial and Temporal Scales” May 13-17, 2007 New Orleans, LA Deadline to Submit Papers is May 16, 2006 http://www.asce.org/conferences/cs07/index.cfm
The Coastal Sediments technical specialty conferences provide an international forum for exchange of information among coastal engineers, geologists, marine scientists, shallow-water oceanographers, and others interested in the physical processes of coastal sediment transport and morphology change. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit abstracts of papers dealing with the conference theme and related subjects.
REGISTRATION OPEN Offshore Technology Conference 2006 (OTC) May 1-4, 2006 Houston, TX http://www.otcnet.org/2006/index.html Registration is now open for OTC '06 the world's foremost event for the development of offshore resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production and environmental protection. OF INTEREST
Civil Engineering in the Oceans VI Edited by: Michael J. Briggs and Michael E. McCormick Stock # 40775 Domestic List: $ 145.00 / Members: $108.75 Proceedings from the specialty conference held October 20-22, 2004 in Baltimore, Md. This collection of 42 technical papers with the theme “Meeting the New Challenges of the 21st Century”, is designed to be a comprehensive handbook of state-of-the-art... Offshore Forum Completes Year Focused on Cold Regions The COPRI Deepwater Infrastructure Forum (DIF) continued its yearlong theme “Challenges of the Cold Regions” for their third and final meeting in 2005. Focusing on design issues speakers Chris Langley, Project Manager at Shell E&P Projects in Houston and John Halkyard, Chief Technical Advisor for the Floating and Fixed Facilities Department for Technip USA, Inc addressed the crowd at the October 11 meeting...
ASCE has initiated the Hall of Fame for OTC papers in 2005 to recognize those technical papers, presented in the early years of OTC, which provided our industry with innovation, vision, direction and lasting impact on the design, construction or installation of the offshore infrastructure. The honored papers were presented at OTC conferences thirty or more years ago, yet they still form the core of current practice worldwide. A banquet will be held at OTC 2006 at which time honorees will be recognized publicly. For more information on OTC or the Hall of Fame please contact COPRI at copri@asce.org. Get Your COPRI Merchandise Today!
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