Searching for answers

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/science/06sfbriefs.html

Nov 05, 2009

Among the hundreds of current research projects in the Bay Area, some may solve problems crucial to local industries, like clean tech and bio-tech. Others focus on possible disaster, like the collapse of the Sacramento Delta levees in an earthquake. From Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to the flood that inundated the Midwest last year, Robert Bea, a civil engineer at UC Berkeley, has crossed the country to study levee failures. But when he looked closer to home he found the signs of a looming disaster.