Good article. I believe the portion about UC Davis being a fire risk is a typo or mistake. Santa Cruz and Berkeley are definitely part of the WUI, but Davis is a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by irrigated agricultural land. I am familiar with the campus and it should not be in the same sentence as Santa Cruz when discussing fire hazard.
As a Harvard faculty member, have you given any thought to Harvard's ever-increasing exposure to sea-level rise risk in its massive Allston expansion? At some point Boston Harbor will overtop the Charles River Dam and high tides will start to flood that area, as well as MIT and Harvard's River Houses. You might think that Harvard, with 350 plus years under its belt, would be able to plan 50 years into the future.
Good article. I believe the portion about UC Davis being a fire risk is a typo or mistake. Santa Cruz and Berkeley are definitely part of the WUI, but Davis is a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by irrigated agricultural land. I am familiar with the campus and it should not be in the same sentence as Santa Cruz when discussing fire hazard.
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As a Harvard faculty member, have you given any thought to Harvard's ever-increasing exposure to sea-level rise risk in its massive Allston expansion? At some point Boston Harbor will overtop the Charles River Dam and high tides will start to flood that area, as well as MIT and Harvard's River Houses. You might think that Harvard, with 350 plus years under its belt, would be able to plan 50 years into the future.