Keynote
Monday, September 9 | 9:00 - 9:45 am
"Research to Action: Partnership for Informed Policy Making"
Jonna Papefthemiou, B.S., State Resilience Officer, the Office of the Governor of the State of Oregon
Monday, September 9 | 9:45 - 10:30 am
"Physical-Chemical Properties Affecting the Performance of Bentonite-Based Chemical Containment Barriers"
Chuck Schakleford, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University at Fort Colins
State of the Practice
Monday, September 9 | 4:00 - 4:45 pm
"Moving Mountains: Waste Containment Engineering Challenges in an Era of Dwindling Capacity"
Kevin C. Foye, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, CTI and Associates, Inc.
Monday, September 9 | 4:45 - 5:30 pm
"PFAS Disposal: Long-Term Leachate Data and Advanced Sequestration Strategies"
Milind V. Khire, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, M.ASCE, Professor of Civil Engineering at UNC Charlotte
State of the Art
Tuesday, September 10 | 9:00 - 9:45 am
"Autonomous Characterization of Full-Scale Field Response of Municipal Solid Waste"
Dimitrios Zekkos, P.E., M.ASCE, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, September 10 | 9:45 - 10:30 am
"Beyond Geophysics: Electromagnetic Waves for Geoenvironmental Applications"
Arvin Farid, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Professor of the Civil Engineering Department at Boise State University
Keynote
Tuesday, September 10 | 4:00 - 4:45 pm
"CPCCo - At the Center of Hanford Cleanup"
Jeremy Wall, MBA, Environmental Protection Manager, Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo)
Tuesday, September 10 | 4:45 - 5:30 pm
"Resilient and Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Sites: A Case Study on Using Integrated Assessment Frameworks for Effective Decision Making"
Krishna Reddy, Ph.D., P.E., DGE, F.ASCE, ENV SP, Professor of Civil, Materials, & Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago
Rising Stars
Wednesday, September 11 | 9:00 - 9:30 am
"Geoenvironmental Engineering Practices in a Changing Environment: A Focus on Cold Regions"
Tugce Baser, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Geotechnical Engineering
Wednesday, September 11 | 9:30 - 10:00 am
"Predicting the Hydraulic Properties of Compacted Soil Barriers in Landfills Using Artificial Intelligence"
Nick Chen, Ph.D., AM.ASCE, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, & Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida