BAESI Workshop    March 5, 2005
California & Water
Questions? Ask Richard (sedlock@geosun.sjsu.edu 408 924-5020)

 Introductory Stuff

8:40            Introduction, logistics, paperwork; outline day’s goals and agenda
8:50            Summarize relevant standards
8:55            Distribute materials from Santa Clara Valley Water District

Precipitation: Where and When?
9:00            CA Precipitation
9:20            Use WRCC Web site; Statewide precipitation map

 9:45            break

 After the Fall
10:00            Water Cycle (including WEF maps, Porosity/Permeability activity)
10:50            DH 210 for WaterWatch StreamFlow, WEF site, USGS site
11:10            California Water Maps, part 1 (including Water Systems: Natural vs. Built [activity])

 noon:            lunch

 12:35            California Water Maps, part 2

 Uses and Users
1:10            Brainstorming w/California Water Maps
1:30            Taste Test/Water Audit
2:00            break
2:10            Discussion, part 2
2:35            Subsidence
2:55            Discussion, part 3

A Slice of Reality: The Delta

3:15            Chronology: geography, economics, politics
3:45            Seismic hazards (ABAG); Delta levees

4:20            Paperwork

4:30            end