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This unique event celebrates the Institute's and Water
Resouces Education Center's shared 20th anniversaries and remembers
the historic flood of 1996 that occurred mere weeks before the Water
Center's opening! Attendees are also encourage to view the Vanport
and Columbia River floods exhibit on the first floor of the Water
Center. Food and beverages (non-alcoholic and beer) will be available
for purchase.
Lecture Description
The Portland-Vancouver area has been shaped by many
floods over several million years. The majority of the landforms were
formed in a series of 40 floods that brought water into the area at
velocities over 50 mph and shaped the area. Major erosional valleys,
pendant bars of sediments, and deposits owe their origin to these
floods called the Missoula Floods. Much of the talk will be about
these events which are some of the greatest geological happenings in
North America's history. In 1948, an incredible flood caused the
flooding of Oregon's second largest city, Vanport, which was in the
Columbia River Flood Plain. And finally, in 1996, the area had
another rain on snow event that caused a huge set of floods in the
area. Come hear Prof. Scott Burns of Portland State University talk
about these three major floods.
Scott Burns Biography
Scott is a Professor Emeritus of Geology and
Past-Chair of the Dept. of Geology at Portland State University where
he just finished his 25th year of teaching. He was also Associate
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at P.S.U. from
1997-1999. He has been teaching for 45 years, with past positions in
Switzerland, New Zealand, Washington, Colorado and Louisiana. He is a
6th generation Oregonian who grew up in Beaverton. Scott specializes
in environmental and engineering geology, geomorphology, soils, and
Quaternary geology. In Oregon, he has assisted with projects
involving landslides and land use, environmental cleanup of service
stations, slope stability, earthquake hazard mapping, Missoula
Floods, paleosols, loess soil stratigraphy, radon generation from
soils, the distribution of heavy metals and trace elements in Oregon
soils and alpine soil development. He has been active in mapping
landslides in the Pacific Northwest since his return to Portland. He
has authored over 100 publications, including "Cataclysms on the
Columbia, the Great Missoula Floods." He is also well known for
his long history studying wine and terroir - the relationship between
wine, soils, geology and climate.
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