Room 112 Wurster Hall, approximately 9am-3pm.
Author: riverlab
The Associate Director of River Restoration will support American Rivers’ efforts to restore rivers and floodplains and advance equitable nature-based flood management solutions. We are looking for candidates who can work with our national Floodplain Restoration program to support organizational goals to restore 20,000 acres of floodplains by 2026, and foster a national community of practice of floodplain restoration professionals; at a regional level to develop and launch a campaign to enable equitable and nature-based floodplain management within the Mississippi River states; and are committed to reducing flood risk for the most vulnerable communities by advancing community-led solutions. (Source: American Rivers)
Read more about this job listing here.
Daniel Iacofano, MIG, Berkeley
A river floods. A flood control channel is built. Problem solved. Except that everyone hates it. Even the best river restoration plan or flood control plan won’t work if you don’t have the right people at the table before it’s a plan. You’ll need to draw diverse community members into an authentic conversation from the outset, to frame the problem, develop potential solutions, and agree on next steps—in person or in virtual meetings. Your key messages, outreach methods, languages and educational materials need to match your target audiences. Depending on where the waterway is, that can include environmentalists, the Army Corps, land developers, agricultural interests, recreationists, homeowners, nearby residents, businesses, unions and tribal representatives. How well you reach out to and engage those diverse interests will determine whether your river plan succeeds.
Event took place Tuesday 24 October.
Talk given by Daniel Iacofano, followed by a panel discussion with John Hart, Juliet Lamont, and Daniela Peña Corvillon
The Napa River in Napa, California. Photo courtesy of MIG, Inc.
Speaker bio:
Daniel Iacofano (Ph.D., FAICP, FASLA) is internationally recognized as an innovator and thought leader in urban planning and design, facilitation, and consensus building. Co-founder of the firm MIG, Daniel has worked with hundreds of communities and organizations around the world to think strategically and critically about achieving desired change. His projects have included a number of river projects, in which his team helped communities identify solutions to flooding problems that also restore ecological processes in rivers and human access to them. Notable among these was the Napa River project, which has been celebrated as a project that successfully reduced flood risk while restoring river processes.
Panelist bios:
Poet and environmental journalist John Hart is author of sixteen books and several hundred other published works, notably San Francisco Bay: portrait of an estuary (UC Press 2003). Winner of the James D. Phelan Award, the Commonwealth Club Medal in Californiana, and the David R. Brower Award for Service in the Field of Conservation.
Dr. Juliet Lamont is a founder and partner of the environmental consulting practice, Creekcats Environmental Partners LLC, and holds an MS in Wildland Resource Science and a PhD in Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley. She focuses on advancing ecosystem-based strategies for biodiversity restoration, climate resilience, and sustainable development. She advocates for the use of nature-based and “nature positive” solutions as a cornerstone for multi-benefit protection and restoration strategies.
Daniela Peña Corvillon is a Chilean Architect who holds an MLA in Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley (2013). She focuses on design and restoration of natural ecological functions at the interface of human and wild spaces. Daniela works at John Northmore Roberts & Associates in Berkeley, where she plans, designs, and manages various-scale projects that integrate human uses into natural areas, and restore natural functions in the urban environment, in California and elsewhere in the US and abroad.
Trout Unlimited is hiring 2 Conservation Hydrology Interns for our upcoming field season. This internship is a unique, paid opportunity for students, recent grads or someone new to the conservation field to learn skills that will serve them in any conservation career they choose to pursue.
Terje Tvedt, University of Bergen, Norway
Terje Tvedt, a Norwegian professor in global history, political science and geography, presented a lecture on The Nile: River of history and conflict, on Wednesday 15 March, in Bauer Wuster Hall, to an audience students, faculty, and researchers drawn from across the campus. Professor Tvedt has published numerous books on general water-society issues and on the river Nile in particular. Among them are a bibliography on the Nile in three volumes, “The River Nile in the Age of the British”, “Water and Society. Changing Perceptions on Societal and Historical Developments” (2020), and “The Nile. History’s Greatest River” (2021, translated into German, Chinese, Italian, Dutch, Italian, Serbian and Arabic). He has also made several TV-documentaries shown by among others National Geographic, Discovery Channels, Documentary Channel and Netflix. For the films, see his YouTube channel.
Tvedt’s lecture on the Nile was a multidisciplinary overview of the geography, hydrology and historical role of the river now running through 11 countries with about half a billion inhabitants, and through the heart of cities such as Cairo and Khartoum. The focus was on the background to current hydropolitics, especially the tense conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia regarding the Renaissance dam on the Blue Nile. Tvedt also discussed the role of Southern Sudan in Nile geopolitics. The talk was sponsored by the Sather Center, Global Metropolitan Studies, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and Center for African Studies, UC Berkeley. A video of the talk (beginning after the first several minutes) is available online here.
A recording of the lecture (unfortunately missing the first five minutes of the lecture) is available below:
WORKSHOP:
A Water-Systems Approach to
Understanding Rivers and Urban Form
14 March 2023
UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix
Rincon Consultants Water Resources Internship
Rincon Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Water Resources Intern who will assist professional environmental scientists, planners, and engineers. We are seeking an enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, and motivated individual who excels in working in a fast-paced, evolving practice to grow our water resources planning and watershed management services across California. Please see the following for more information:…
American Rivers is hiring a new Associate Director of CA Central Valley River Restoration. The Associate Director will help American Rivers develop and implement exciting and inspiring projects to protect and restore rivers and floodplains in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River watersheds and Delta.
Please see the attached job description or visit https://www.americanrivers.org/about-us/careers/associate-director-of-california-central-valley-river-restoration/.
Applications will be considered immediately.
In this project, two faculty and five students each from Jackson State University (JSU) and UC Berkeley (UCB) will collaboratively assess sites along the Mississippi currently with public access, some of the riverfront without public access, and make recommendations for improving public access in light of current land use, flood control constraints, and evolving opportunities. Read more →
Hear Prof Matt Kondolf’s interview on the BBC’s Science in Action:
