BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv7.36.4//EN
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://texascecon.org/
X-WR-CALNAME:CECON 2026
X-WR-CALDESC:Revitalizing Resiliency
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Chicago
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20260308T030000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=03;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20261101T010000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-4baf54f36935058bcc696fcef3f4689b@texascecon.org
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T090000
DTSTAMP:20260205T154129Z
CREATED:20260205
LAST-MODIFIED:20260807
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:2
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SUMMARY:Reference Points in Motion: Measuring a Dynamic Earth for Resilient Texas Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Resilient infrastructure begins with a simple assumption: that we know where things are. Yet the ground beneath Texas is anything but still. Portions of the Houston region and the Eagle Ford are subsiding at more than 20 millimeters per year. The North American tectonic plate rotates continuously beneath our feet. Relative sea level along the Gulf Coast is the combined product of a rising ocean and sinking land. For civil engineers designing levees, pipelines, ports, roadways, and drainage systems intended to last decades, these movements are no longer academic; they are design constraints.\nThis keynote draws on more than three decades of continuous coastal and land observation by the Conrad Blucher Institute at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, which operates the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network, maintains every NOAA PORTS® system in Texas, and designated as the Texas Spatial Reference Center. We will examine how modern measurement tools, including Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), are quantifying millimeter-scale surface deformation across the state, and what those measurements mean for infrastructure asset management, flood risk, and long-term planning.\nThe talk will also introduce the modernized National Spatial Reference System scheduled for rollout in the coming year and explain, in practical terms, what changes for the engineering community when horizontal and vertical coordinates carry a timestamp.\n
URL:https://texascecon.org/cecon/keynote-coffee/
CATEGORIES:Keynote
LOCATION:Main Ballroom
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR