Join us on June 11, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Construction Quality Control / Information Data Systems for Dam Rehabilitation. We live in an information age. A huge variety of digital tools and methods are in use to assure quality in dam construction. These tools can be leveraged to verify compliance with specifications, excavation limits, production rates, construction limits, structure size, geotechnical instrumentation trends, and...

Foreign nation state-sponsored cyber group and threat actors affiliated with the Iranian Government have carried out malicious cyber-attacks against multiple critical infrastructure entities; this and other nation state “bad actors” have their eyes on this precious resource. In one case, hackers targeted and disabled a common operational technology (OT) used at water facilities. Unfortunately, these facilities often lack the resour...

States’ voter registration systems and voter access have undergone a host of changes over the past five years, thanks in large part to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many states expanded vote-by-mail options, stepped up automatic voter registration programs, or both. Cities took action, as well – Los Angeles, for instance, has overhauled its voting system infrastructure, using open source, the cloud, and cybersecurity partnerships to updat...

Join us on August 13, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Using the Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) for Evaluation of Dams and Levees. This webinar will comprehensively cover the Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) from the most basic ideas to advanced topics. It will be engaging, interesting, and enjoyable to watch. The most important concepts will be fully described. There will be numerous examples of state-of-the-art evaluations. Stratigraphy evaluat...

The 2020 election and its aftermath provided a vivid demonstration of many of the risks faced by election officials across the country – and new dangers have emerged in 2024. Physical threats to poll workers have proliferated, AI-generated disinformation showed up in one state’s primary contest, and other AI threats, whether from partisan interests, corporate disinterest or hostile nation-states, loom large. The landscape is so dan...

This course serves as an introduction and guidance on construction oversight and inspections associated with the construction or modification of a dam and appurtenant structures. Learning objectives attendees will receive from this course: Organization, communication, and the roles, responsibilities, and authority of project team members. Emergency operations for dam and levee failures and incidents. Importance of dam construction documentatio...

California may be the home of Silicon Valley and the birthplace of many innovative technologies, but as the biggest state (by population) and the fifth-largest economy in the world (more than 14% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product), it faces nation-sized challenges. The human issues include everything from making health care and insurance more affordable to investing in expanded internet access, to name just two. The state government has embarked...

This course is intended as an introductory course for persons who have had at least one course in reinforced concrete design. The course will provide a thorough overview of the fundamentals of specifying the fresh and hardened properties of concrete mixes; the review of applicable codes for concrete hydraulic structures; the design philosophy and methodology of reinforced concrete hydraulic structures; and issues associated with the constructi...