A lot of science goes into the management and planning of our local water resources to ensure that our community has a reliable water supply. This includes the effort to make sure water transferred from the City of Santa Cruz is compatible with the District’s system and how recycled treated wastewater will be purified to replenish the overdrafted groundwater basin to prevent further seawater intrusion.
Monitoring, detecting and mapping seawater intrusion, climate change, hydrology, groundwater modeling, conventional potable water treatment, advanced recycled purification water treatment processes are some of the topics that will be covered in this presentation.
Presented by the Soquel Creek Water District at the Downtown Library, 224 Church St. on Thursday May 2, from 6:30- 8 p.m.
Dr. Bruce Daniels is the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Soquel Creek Water District and has been on the board since 2000. He has a Ph.D. in Hydroclimatology from UCSC, which is the science of how climate change impacts water resources.
He is also a former governor-appointed member and chair of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (1999-2005). Bruce also serves as the District representative on the Santa Cruz Mid-County Groundwater Agency (MGA) and the Water Resources Management and Infrastructure Committee and the Finance and Administrative Services Committee.
Ron Duncan is the General Manager at Soquel Creek Water District. He worked in the private sector as a consultant for half his career and the public sector for the last 17 years. Involved with water the entire time.
Ron holds a BS in Geology, an MS in Hydrology, an MBA and completed a fellowship in an Executive Master’s program titled “Positive Leadership and Strategy.” He is passionate about helping individuals and teams at the District and the organization flourish. He also loves learning and sharing information.
Citizen Science is collaboration between the Santa Cruz Public Libraries; the Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery (SCCMOD), and the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).
We invite you to join us every first Thursday of the month for a presentation and Q&A with local experts and researchers in the field discussing life science, ecology, geology, genetics, climatology and more. Let’s connect, inspire and inform each other!
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For more information contact [email protected] • 831-427-7717