OCC proudly announces one of its engineers has joined the third and fourth disaster assessment teams assembled by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) deployed for Japan to study the effects of the March 11, 2011, 9.0 magnitude earthquake and the resulting tsunami, which wrought massive destruction along that nation’s Pacific coastline. The tsunami inundated approximately 292 square miles, or 470 square kilometers.
Members of the Coastal Structures Team include: Lesley Ewing, Sr. Coastal Engineer, California Coastal Commissioner, San Francisco; James Marino, Director of Engineering, Coastal Technology Corp., Debary, Florida; Ronald Noble, Noble Consultants, Inc., Ignacio, Calif., Bryan Jones, Regional Director/Chief Project Manager, Ocean and Coastal Consultants of COWI, Marshfield, MA, and Catherine Petroff, LP4 Associates LLC, Affiliate Researcher, UW, Seattle.
