Seminar Series at Peer Institutions & Companies

  • The 2021 Hwy-1 Embankment Failure at Rat Creek in Big Sur & Lessons Learned, August 18 2021, Caltrans
  • Waste Settlement Measurements using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on MSW Landfills, June 9 2022, Fabricated Geomembrane Institute.
  • The 2021 Hwy-1 Embankment Failure at Rat Creek, Big Sur, CA & Lessons Learned, June 8 2022, Vancouver geotechnical society
  • Towards Community-level Co-Seismic Landslide Resiliency: The Case of the 2015 Lefkada Earthquake, March 3 2022, UC Davis Geotechnical Seminar Series.
  • “Emerging Opportunities from Autonomous Multi-Scale Monitoring and Assessment of Geo-Infrastructure”, National Academies Fall Meeting of the Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering, October 14 2021.
  • “Integrated Satellite, UAV and ground-based assessment of landslides: The 2015 Mw 6.5 Lefkada earthquake in Greece”, Berkeley-San Francisco Geo-Institute Distinguished Lecture Series, May 7 2021.
  • “Emerging Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geotechnical Engineering Practice”, ASCEFloridaSection, West Coast Chapter, May 13 2021.
  • “Integrated Satellite, UAV and ground-based assessment & back-calculation of landslides in Lefkada, Greece, following the November 17 2015 Mw 6.5 earthquake”, November 17 2020, UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Guest Seminar Speaker.
  • “Emerging Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geotechnical Engineering Practice”, San Francisco Geo-Institute Chapter, January 23 2020.
  • “Characterization of large populations of landslides caused by earthquakes: The example of the November 17th 2015 Mw 6.5 earthquake in Lefkada, Greece”, January 21 2020 Bentley (virtually).
  • “Multi-Scale Assessment of Landsliding caused by earthquakes”, NASA GSFC Disaster Working Group, May 23 2019 (with Marin Clark).
  • “Recent Advances in Infrastructure and Geosystems Resiliency empowered by Autonomy”, University of California at Berkeley, April 29 2019.
  • “Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Infrastructure and Geosystem Resiliency”, Nanyang Technological University, NTU-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Centre, March 12 2019.
  • “Applications of Aerial and Land-Based Robotic Platforms in Landfills.” CTI Associates, Novi, August 29 2018.
  • “Robot-enabled Research Efforts to Promote Resiliency and Sustainability of Geo-Systems.” Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Michigan, January 27 2017.
  • “Evaluation of the mechanical properties of Municipal Solid Waste.” Hellenic Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, June 15 2016, Athens.
  • “From Waste Containment to Energy Harvesting: Experimental Assessment of Coupled Physico-Biochemical & Mechanical Processes of Municipal Solid Waste Undergoing Biodegradation.” February 19 2016, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.
  • “Seismic Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills,” University of Illinois, Chicago, Civil and Materials Departmental Lecture, April 10, 2014.
  • “Recent Advances on the Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” Queen’s University and RMC Geoengineering Centre, Kingston, Canada, February 15, 2012.
  • “Stability of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills: Fundamentals and Recent Advances,” Waste and Hazardous Materials Division, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), Lansing, MI, June 17, 2010.
  • “Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, April 28, 2008.
  • “Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, April 7, 2008.
  • “Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 2, 2008.
  • “Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, February 22, 2008.
  • “Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” ASCE-Geo-Institute Chapter of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, November 14, 2006.
  • “Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” webinar presented to all offices of Geosyntec Consultants, June 30, 2006.
  • “Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” Berkeley Geoengineering Society, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, September 7, 2005.
  • “Evaluation of Static and Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” ASCE San Francisco Geotechnical Group, Oakland, CA, August 23, 2005.
  • “Recent Advances in the Properties of Municipal Solid Waste,” Fugro West, Oakland, CA, July 11, 2005.
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