Boase Geotechnical Engineering & Geomechanics Seminar Series

Oct. 6
Presenters: Graduate Student Researchers
Seminar: TBA

Oct. 20
Presenter: Anne Voigtlaender, Earth & Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), Postdoctoral Researcher in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) – Geosciences program with Professor Yida Zhang
Seminar:  Why firn quakes - a continuum mechanics theory with granular legacy

Nov. 3
Speaker: Professor Xiong Zhang, geotechnical engineering, Center for Intelligent Infrastructure, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Seminar: Indefinability of Effective Stress in Unsaturated Soils

Sept. 6
Presenter: Mohammad Amin Hariri-Ardebili, PREP researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Oct. 11
Presenter: Miguel Mánica Malcom, associated researcher, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Oct. 18
Speaker: Eric Thompson, PhD, research geophysicist, earthquakes hazard program, US Geological Survey
Topic:  Recent Advances to USGS Near-Real-Time Earthquake Information Products

Oct. 25
Presenter: Kyle Rollins, professor, Brigham Young University
Topic: Insights on Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction for Bridges from Large-Scale Field Tests

Nov. 8
Presenter: Kane Bennett, research scientist, Los Alamos National Library

Nov. 15
Presenter: Alejandro Mota, research scientist, Sandia National Laboratories

Nov. 22
Presenter: Zhou Lei, research scientist III, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Presenters
Mike Mooney, Grewcock Distinguished Chair Professor of Underground Construction & Tunneling;
professor, civil and environmental engineering, Colorado School of Mines

Erin Nebel, director, HR communications, BGC Engineering 

Oct. 13
Presenter: David Wald, supervisory research geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey

Oct. 20
Presenter: Robb Moss, professor, civil and environmental engineering, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Oct. 27
Presenter: Jeff Coffin, PhD, principal engineer; Zach Fox, senior engineer; Nicholas Sianta, staff engineer; and Stefan Pauley, staff engineer, Knight Piésold
Title: Engineering Consulting in the Mining Industry

Nov. 3
Presenter: Andrew Makdisi, research civil engineer, U.S. Geological Survey

Nov. 10
Presenter: Todd Schlittenhart, principal engineer, Yeh and Associates

Nov. 17
Presenter: Christian Ledezma, associate professor and department head, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Dec. 8
Presenter: Asaad Faramarzi, associate professor and head of civil engineering, University of Birmingham

Presenters
Ben Mason, research civil engineer with the Earthquake Hazards Program, US Geological Survey

Farshid Vahedifard, professor, Richard A. Rula School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mississippi State University

Aaron Leopold, professional engineer, Dan Brown and Associates

Ian Moore, faculty, civil engineering Queen's University

Kevin Franke, associate professor, Brigham Young University

Nicholas Brinke, geotechnical and mining engineer, Stantec

Trevor Carey, assistant professor, The University of British Columbia