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‘Under LA’ conference at USC dives into some of the least visible areas of Los Angeles

By AirTalk Staff
Published Nov 9, 2017
LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 16: Workers put final touches to a support structure, as ?Lola?, one of two massive Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) creating tunnels for the Light Rail Eastside Extension, after it broke through from burrowing a 1.7-mile tunnel segment for the Metro Gold Line eastward on November 16, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. ?Lola? and its twin sister ?Vicki?, which is a few weeks behind in the westward tunnel, each weigh more than 2 million pounds, stretch 344 feet underground, and create tunnels 21 feet in diameter. The giant machines were custom-built for Metro in Germany by Herrenknecht at a cost of $10 million each. The tunnels are part of the six-mile extension of the Gold Line Metro to link Union Station in downtown Los Angeles with the Little Tokyo/Arts District, Boyle Heights, and East Los Angeles by late 2009. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Workers put final touches to a support structure, as ‘Lola’, one of two massive Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) creating tunnels for the Light Rail Eastside Extension, after it broke through from burrowing a 1.7-mile tunnel segment for the Metro Gold Line eastward on November 16, 2006 in Los Angeles, California.
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‘Under LA’ conference at USC dives into some of the least visible areas of Los Angeles

USC is hosting scientists, researchers, writers, artists and historians in a day of conversation on what lies beneath Los Angeles: earthquakes, tunnels, fossils and oil, and more.

Speakers and panels will cover LA’s underground science and ecosystem, the city’s subterranean infrastructure, local military history, and its edgy arts and culture.

The conference is called “Under L.A.: Subterranean Stories,” and it’s open to the public Saturday, 9am-4:30pm at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library.

Guests:

William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW) and co-curator of the “Under LA” conference this Saturday, Nov. 11, at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library

Robert-Michael deGroot, staff scientist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena and a panelist at the “Under LA” conference

Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum; a panelist at the “Under LA” conference

M.G. Lord, assistant professor of English at USC and a panelist at the “Under LA”  conference