{"id":5330,"date":"2018-06-02T00:11:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2018-06-02T00:14:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T05:14:47","slug":"flooding-in-se-texas-the-science-behind-the-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=5330","title":{"rendered":"Flooding in SE Texas: The Science Behind the Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Hear What Scientists Have to Say About Flooding in the Region<\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>June 1, 2018<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gmail-tribe-events-single-event-description gmail-tribe-events-content\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hgs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Geological Society<\/a>, in cooperation with local universities and agencies, has organized a two-day educational conference bringing together stakeholders, including business, scientists, engineers, citizens coalitions, and government agencies to exchange current knowledge and ideas for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include representatives from Rice University, University of Houston, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Harris County Flood Control District, the City of Houston, and others. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hgs.org\/sites\/default\/files\/civicrm\/persist\/contribute\/files\/speaker%20table%202018-5-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The list is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hgs.org\/civicrm\/event\/info?id=1958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registration is required.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The conference takes place next week, Wednesday and Thursday, June 6 and 7, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the University of Houston, Student Center, 4455 University Drive, Houston 77204. Cost is $200.<\/p>\n<p>Save Buffalo Bayou is a sponsor of this event.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5331\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Downtown-BB-Shepherd-Bridge-8.28.17-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Downtown-BB-Shepherd-Bridge-8.28.17-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Downtown-BB-Shepherd-Bridge-8.28.17-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Downtown-BB-Shepherd-Bridge-8.28.17-1-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Houston from the Shepherd Bridge over Buffalo Bayou on Aug. 28, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear What Scientists Have to Say About Flooding in the Region June 1, 2018 &nbsp; The Houston Geological Society, in cooperation with local universities and agencies, has organized a two-day educational conference bringing together stakeholders, including business, scientists, engineers, citizens coalitions, and government agencies to exchange current knowledge and ideas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5342,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions\/5342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}