2020 was a roller coaster year for the storage industry. It began with overcapacity, which then spiraled unexpectedly into the biggest oil shock in history due to the pandemic and collapsed OPEC discussions, with many traders opting for floating storage. One year into the pandemic, are there signs of recovery, and what is the future outlook for oil storage? S&P Global Platts 14th annual Oil Storage conference will be taking place virtually...

The need to effectively manage wildfires is obvious. California’s 2018 wildfire season resulted in the deaths of 104 people and $24 billion dollars in damage alone. The numerous wildfires that have ravaged Australia during the country’s 2019-20 wildfire season continue to show that effective wildfire management is a principal issue for governments, companies and the public at large. Since 1970, wildfires have increased in frequency...

About BECC 2020–we are going virtual this year! Mitigating climate change is more urgent than ever, and we need major leaps in systems and behaviors to address this critical issue. For more than a decade, BECC has presented behavioral research on nudging people and organizations to make these changes. Now is the time to move from nudges to leaps. For us specifically, the time has come to explore the world of virtual conference production...

The Public sector Coffee Hour series is a bi-weekly videocast featuring luminaries from technology, society and the world of STEM. Topics for discussion will include governmental and societal impacts of technology, open source in Sci/Tech/Med., as well as the role of technology and work/life balance. George Takei features in the Star Trek TV series and movies as Hikaru Sulu, and George is also an accomplished author, public speaker and activis...

Together Paul and Dean have offered this seminar 19 times in 17 states and it has been attended by more than 1,000 students. The seminar provides comprehensive instruction in inspection and evaluation techniques for dams. The principles, concepts and procedures taught will be readily adaptable to any organization conducting dam inspections and evaluating their compliance with current design standards. Participants learn about a variety of dam...

GSA’s Enterprise Infrastructure Services Path to the Future Online Event will enable government agencies to learn more about best practices that will help agencies prepare for EIS transition activities. Who should attend? CIO/IT Staff, Telecom Staff, Transition Executives & Managers, Contracting Officers & Specialists, Program/Project Managers, Financial Staff. Each of the six sessions will earn you 1 Continuous Learning Point (C...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. This 2.5-day introductory course is designed to be a participatory, interactive workshop, which will cover the basic elements required to understand and evaluate seepage-related issues for earth dams. The first day begins with providing an understanding of why seepage mechanisms in earth dams are important to dam safety. Discussion...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. The objective of this course will be to provide a comprehensive presentation of the significant principles and concepts of soil mechanics to the participants. The material will be presented with emphasis on the basic soil mechanics principles prerequisite to further study for design or rehabilitation of earth embankment dams. This...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. This course provides broad coverage of stability analysis for embankment dams. Topics addressed in the course include soil stress-strain behavior, shear strength selection, field and laboratory testing methods, slope stability analysis methods, slope stability analysis loading cases, seepage as related to stability analysis, and st...