2009

 

• Urban Waterfront Competition Underway

The Waterfront Center is currently accepting entries for its 23rd Annual Waterfront Awards Program. Entries must be postmarked by June 22, 2009. To learn more about the Waterfront Awards Program, and to obtain entry information and award program guidelines, please visit www.waterfrontcenter.org.

• Rising Tides Ideas Competition Offers Cash for Coastal Solutions

The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) recently announced a competition for ideas on responding to sea level rise. The competition seeks responses to various design challenges, such as: building in an area that is dry now, but that may be wet in the future. The first-place winner will recieve $10,000.

 

• Submit Your Project by June 1, 2009, for the COPRI Project Excellence Award

Rather than project size, this award is designed to recognize innovation, through both  research methodologies and techniques which decrease negative environmental impacts. Projects nominated for this award should demonstrate significant achievement through design or construction concepts, use of new or existing analytical techniques, use of new or existing technology, adaptive reuse of existing features or infrastructure, or methods to minimize environmental impacts within the affected region or area.

• Make Plans to Join COPRI in Honoring New Hall of Fame Members

. What: ASCE OTC Hall of Fame Gala When: May 5, 2009 Where: Houston Petroleum Club | map Why: To honor our 2009 Hall of Fame Inductees

 

• Scott Hagen Elected Treasurer COPRI Governing Board

COPRI is pleased to announce the election of a new Treasurer for its Board of Governors. Scott C. Hagen, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, is an associate professor in the University of Central Florida's Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering. Hagen received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Joannes J. Westerink. ...

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• COPRI Raffle Winner Goes to San Francisco Ocean Film Festival Feb. 19-22nd

• Ports and Harbors Committee to Present First Kenneth M. Childs, Jr. Practitioner’s Award at Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section Waterways Technical Group Dinner January 29, 2009.

Register to attend this meeting and pay by credit card online at www.bsces.org. You can also register by contacting Greg Robbins at 781-749-2530 ext. 205 or at grobbins@vineassociates.net. The event will include a presentation by David Porter of Childs Engineering and Bryan Jones of Ocean & Coastal Consultants, "Underwater Inspection: What Lurks Beanth the Surface?"

• Jennifer Irish Elected Secretary COPRI Governing Board

COPRI is pleased to announce the election of a new Secretary for its Board of Governors. Jennifer L. Irish, Ph.D, P.E., M.ASCE, an assistant professor of civil engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, will serve a four-year term as COPRI Secretary beginning immediately. Irish has been an assistant professor at Texas A&M University at College Station since August 2006.

• Read the recently released Wetlands Regulatory Workshop Report | Website

• Organizational Member Spotlight
  • Collins Engineering, Inc.
  • W.J. Castle, Inc.

 

 

2008

 

• Gulf Coast Hurricanes Conference to Feature COPRI Assessment of Ike Damage

• ASCE OTC Hall of Fame welcomes 2008 winners

• COPRI offers Project Excellence Award this year
• ASCE Technical Region Update - November 14, 2008
• ASCE Technical Region Update - October 31, 2008

• 2007

• Gordon H. Sterling, COPRI Past-President, Receives OTC Heritage Award

• COPRI Introduces GIS Publication for Ports Facilities