The Channel City Club
now including the Committee on Foreign Relations
Santa Barbara’s Window on the World
CCC
The Channel City Club was founded in 1946 in Santa Barbara, California, to provide the community with a local venue for outstanding experts on state, national, and international issues.
CFR
The Committee on Foreign Relations promotes foreign relations dialogue through
lecture-discussions.
You are cordially invited to attend:
Annual Christmas Brunch & Program
Hilton Beachfront Hotel - Reagan Room
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
9:30am – 11:45am
Montecito Union School Chorus performance
Under the Direction of Pam Herzog
Featured speaker: Andrea Donnellan, Ph.D.
Topic: Earthquake faults in California and how we use remote sensing to study them
Andrea Donnellan, PhD is manager of the Instrument Systems Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a JPL Senior Research Scientist. She leads NASA’s Surface Topography and Vegetation Study and is principal investigator of the QUAKES stereoimaging instrument suite. She is on the NISAR Science Team. Donnellan studies earthquakes and crustal deformation combining a variety of geodetic imaging techniques with computational modeling and infrastructure. Donnellan is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The Explorers Club. In 1996 she won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers. Donnellan was a finalist in the astronaut selection process three times. The Donnellan Glacier in Antarctica was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2006 for her work on the Antarctic continent.
Schedule:
9:30AM Check in begins
10:00AM Brunch service
10:30AM Montecito Union School Chorus
10:45AM Andrea Donnellan, Ph.D. Presentation
11:45AM Program concludes
Thank you to our generous anonymous CCC member who sponsored this program!
REGISTRATION for this event is REQUIRED by Friday, November 29th
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From left: Hiroko Benko, Event Sponsor; Dr. James Bailey, Retired Commander U.S. Navy; Jennifer Wistrand PhD, Deputy Director of the Kennan Institute and program speaker, Colleen Graffy, Law professor at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law in Malibu. Photo credit: Robert Ayers
Photo Credit Andrew Walker
In Partnership with Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation
From left: Hiroko Benko, Event Sponsor; Dr. James Bailey, Retired Commander U.S. Navy; Jennifer Wistrand PhD, Deputy Director of the Kennan Institute and program speaker, Colleen Graffy, Law professor at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law in Malibu. Photo credit: Robert Ayers
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Santa Barbara, CA 93120