This month’s Eastern Branch meeting (social hour: 5:30 to 6:00, dinner and business meeting: 6:00 to 7:00, presentation: 7:00 to 8:00 pm) will be held on Thursday, January 21, 2009 at Spezia Restaurant, 57th St. & Louise Ave., Sioux Falls.

Dr. Francis Ting from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at South Dakota State University will give a presentation on: "SRICOS - A New Approach to Bridge Scour Prediction" after the business meeting.