Time
: October 22, 2015Lecturer: Peter Goodwin (President, IAHR; Lead Scientist, California Delta Science Program; DeVlieg Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Idaho)
Report: The Delta: Challenges for water resources in California
Contents:
- Bay Delta Conservation Plan
- California precipitation and polulation
- Water demand in California
- Special problem: Climate change will diminish California snowpack
- Moving water through the Delta
- Challenges for science and engineering
- Scaling science to magnitude of problem
- A collapse in delta smelt protected by Endangered Species Act
- Role of science
- Delta Science Plan: A framework for collaborative science
- A transformed culture: One Delta, One Science
- Challenges in performance assessment monitoring
- Consequences of climate change
- Examples of the need for systems approaches
- Fundamental question
- A possible mechanism for pool sustainability