C&EE Professor Scott Brandenberg is featured in Robin Meadow’s piece, Feature: First Field-based Assessment of Levee Risk in the Delta. In the article, Professor Brandenberg offers knowledge about the levee that surrounds Bacon Island in the central Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: “All it takes is one bad spot in a levee to flood an island… This is a really hard problem to solve for sudden shocks like floods and earthquakes.”
Read more about his new Delta levee risk assessment in the full article: Feature: First Field-based Assessment of Levee Risk in the Delta