On Water

The spring 2008 schedule for the California Colloquium on Water has been finalized.  All lectures will be held in room 250 of the Goldman School of Public Policy on the UC Berkeley campus (2607 Hearst Ave. at LeRoy) from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. 

The lineup:

February 12: Leading the Way: A Look at the Sonoma County North American Climate Initiative, given by Randy Poole, General Manager/Chief Engineer, Sonoma County Water Agency

March 11: Protecting Watershed Services Through Law, Regulation and Markets, given by Barton H. Thompson, Jr., Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

April 8: Desalination, With a Grain of Salt: A California Perspective, given by Heather Cooley, Senior Researcher, Pacific Institute

May 6: River Migration and the Diversity of Floodplains, given by Thomas Dunne, Professor, Departments of Earth Science and Geography, UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science and Management