CONFERENCE REPORT
5th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE-5)
Cathy Avila, Chair ICSE-5
Venue:
ICSE-5 San Francisco, CA USA November 7-10, 2010
Holiday Inn Golden Gateway
Conference: The conference included 7 keynote lectures and 3 concurrent sessions over 4 days with a total of 118 papers presented. The conference included over 200 participants 70 International and 140 domestic. There were 19 countries represented internationally and 31 states represented domestically.
Proceedings: We received 188 abstracts for the conference. 177 were accepted for paper submission and the final proceedings included 113 papers. Proceedings were a bound volume which is available for purchase at the ASCE website http://www.asce.org/Product.aspx?id=12884902526.
Short Courses: We held two ½ day short-courses on Sunday (November 7th) before the conference. The first was led by Dr. George Annandale titled “Scour or Rock” which provided a state-of-the art insight into analyzing scour of rock downstream of overtopping dams and in plunge pools. The second short course was led by Dr. Paul Clopper and Dr. Peter Lagasse titled “the New HEC-23: What’s in it for you?” and provided an overview of significant revisions and additions to the U.S. FHWA’s HEC-23 “Bridge Scour and Stream Instability Countermeasures”.
TC-213 meeting: The TC-213 meeting was attended by 23 individuals.
Bay Bridge Tour: 30 participants toured the new San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
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