Marie Darling, Coordinator
Thursday 2:30 – 4:30 PM
February 16, 23, and March 2, 2006
Hanover Senior Center
This three-week course will be lecture format. There will be no required reading though there may be handouts. Listed below are the names of speakers and a description of the topic that they will cover.
February 16: Dr. Kate White is a hydraulic engineer researching ice and its properties and effects. Among her many other activities she is a Program Manager in the Flood and Coastal Storm Reduction research program.
The destructive power of ice causes annual damage in the order of $120 million in the U.S. alone. She will examine in detail how and where this occurs and CRREL's data collection activity to aid in emergency response and formulate creative design solutions to ice jam flooding.
February 23: Dr. Jim Lever, a former engineering professor, has research interests that include development of low cost ice control methods for small streams, avoiding expensive and intrusive dams or levees in an effort to control floods. He will describe the design and placement of local structures to accomplish this.
March 2: Mr. Andy Bruzewicz directs the Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Systems Center whose mission is to provide the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with expertise to reduce flood and storm damage and emergency management in crises. He will describe how the Center works with The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when disaster strikes, using Remote Sensing and GIS tools. Included will be examples of how imagery and GIS models have been used in recent hurricane seasons.
