Bay Protection Agency Announces Winner in Unique Sea Level Rise Competition.Rising Tides Exhibition on Display at San Francisco Ferry Building SAN FRANCISCO -- WHAT: The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) is California State commission dedicated to the protection and enhancement of San Francisco Bay and to the encouragement of the Bay's responsible use. Official Website (BCDC BCDC Bay Conservation and Development Commission (San Francisco, California) BCDC Bureau of Communicable Disease Control (Massachusetts) BCDC Bernalillo County Detention Center ), the California state agency responsible for protecting San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, 50 mi (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 mi (4.8–21 km) wide, W Calif.; entered through the Golden Gate, a strait between two peninsulas. , will announce the $10,000 Grand Prize winner for the Rising Tides Competition, a unique effort spearheaded by the agency to solicit innovative ideas related to future coastal development in light of a predicted four-foot-plus rise in sea level due to global warming. The competition has potentially far-reaching influence for shoreline design along coastal areas in the region and worldwide. More than 130 high-level entries from 18 countries were received in response to the design challenge. WHEN: Tuesday, July 14 - 10 a.m. WHERE: San Francisco Ferry Building (2nd Level) WHO: BCDC Executive Director Will Travis; Jury Chairperson Marcel Stive (Scientific Director for the Water Research Centre in Delft, Holland); and possibly the grand prize award winner, if local VISUALS: Exhibition of entries, display of winning entry, possible ceremonial offering of grand prize (if winner is local resident and present at the event) The Rising Tides Exhibition is a free, public display at the San Francisco Ferry Building through Sunday, July 19, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Major funding for the competition came from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noun 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and (NOAA). Additional sponsors included the AIA San Francisco Chapter, the Port of San Francisco The Port of San Francisco lies on the western edge of the San Francisco Bay at the Golden Gate. It has been called one of the three great natural harbors in the world, but it took two long centuries for navigators from Spain and England to find the anchorage originally called Yerba , Equity Office Management and BPS Reprographics. The competition included an international panel of jurists, including Michael Sorkin (Professor of Architecture and Director of Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York “City College” redirects here. For other uses, see City College (disambiguation). CCNY was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States[3] ), Walter Hood (University of California-Berkeley professor and principal of Hood Design in Oakland), Denise Reed (University of New Orleans History UNO was founded in 1958 as the New Orleans branch of Louisiana State University, originally as "Louisiana State University in New Orleans" or "LSUNO", but became more independent and changed the name to "University of New Orleans" in 1974. professor whose research focuses on coastal marshes and sea-level rise), Marcel Stive (Scientific Director for the Water Research Centre in Delft, Holland) and Tracy Metz (veteran journalist with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad). |
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