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Presents

Rich Bernknopf and Herman Karl

Science for Decision Making

The Benefits to Society of Reducing Uncertainty

Current pressures for balanced land and water management, concerns about recovery from natural disaster and protection of environmental quality, and desires to restore and preserve ecosystems demand a new role for scientific information. Such issues may involve diverse and apparently conflicting economic, political, social, and aesthetic interests and values. Under these conditions interdisciplinary research and information derived from natural and social science data can provide tools that contribute to both policy analysis and decision making.

This will be the 314th meeting since 1954.

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  • DINNER MEETING - Tuesday, June 9, 1998

    • Location: Stanford University

  • 5:30 PM-Wine Tasting: Mitchell Bldg., first floor
  • 6:15 PM-Dinner: . . . Mitchell Bldg., first floor
  • 7:30 PM-Meeting: . . . Skilling Auditorium
    see map

    Anyone wishing to attend the tour and lecture only is welcome at no cost.

    This will be the 313th meeting since 1954.

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    Reservations: The easiest way to make reservations is simply to email Willie Lee at lee@andreas.wr.usgs.gov, tell him you will attend, commit to pay, and bring your payment to the meeting.

    If you want to pay in advance:

    Stanford faculty and students: Please make dinner reservations by Friday, June 5. Contact Dr. Juhn Liou via his mailbox (and leave check), Geological and Environmental Sciences Office, Mitchell Bldg. (Rm. 138). Make checks out to "PGS."

    All others, including faculty and students from other Bay Area universities and colleges and USGS: Please make dinner reservations by Friday, June 5. Contact Willie Lee, at USGS, MS-977, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025, phone 650-329-4781. Send check made out to "PGS" to Willie.

    Dinner is $23.00. Includes wine (5:30 to 6:15 PM.), dinner (6:15-7:30 PM.), tax, and tip.

  • Please note: Because dinners are contracted with our caterer, no-shows will be billed.

    For students from all universities and colleges, the dinner, including the social half-hour, is $8.00 and is partially subsidized thanks to the Associates of School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University (Note, no-show reservations owe the full price).

    Dues for Academic Year 1998-99 ($5.00) should be sent to Willie Lee, USGS, MS-977, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025. Willie's phone: 650-329-4781.

    Officers: Gary Ernst, President; Mike Diggles, Vice President; Vicki Langenheim, Secretary; Willie Lee, Treasurer

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    Date created: 05/29/98
    Last modified: 06/04/98
    Created by: Mike Diggles, Vice President, PGS.

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