Mid-Year Meeting 2021

Year 6 Mid-Year Meeting

April 11 – 13, 2021

CBBG is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and partners to our 2021 Mid-Year Meeting! This website will house all information related to the event. Visit frequently for updated information.

This meeting will be in person with select sessions will be also available in ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/2502945270; PASSWORD: Soilrocks!

Sunday, April 11, 2021– Mid-Year Meeting

ASU / UCD	NMSU	GT	Topic	Location
11:00AM	12:00PM	2:00PM	CBBG Student Retreat – CBBG Student Leadership Council

Monday, April 12, 2021 – Mid-Year Meeting

ASU / UCD	NMSU	GT	Topic	Videos	Slides [PDF]
8:00AM	9:00AM	11:00AM	Welcome and Meeting Overview – David Frost (Georgia Tech)	Welcome and Strategic Plan Rollout
8:30AM	9:30AM	11:30AM	Strategic Plan Rollout – Ed Kavazanjian (ASU)
9:30AM	10:30AM	12:30PM	Break / Lunch (30 mins)
10:00AM	11:00AM	1:00PM	Creativity & Bio-geotechnics – Carlos Santamarina	Creativity & Bio-geotechnics - Carlos Santamarina
11:00AM	12:00PM	2:00PM	Student Presentations Peter Zelkowski PhD student NMSU (Advisor: Paola Bandini) “Development and prototype testing of laterally expansive piles” Michael Edgar, PhD student ASU (Advisor: Treavor Boyer) “Nutrient removal and recycling from agricultural run-off” YuYan Chen, PhD student UCD (Advisor: Alejandro Martinez) “Bio-Inspired strategies for a self-burrowing in-situ testing probe” Shaivan Shivaprakash, PhD student GT (Advisor: Susan Burns) “Exploring MICP in carbonate bearing silty sands”	Student Presentations	Michael Edgar
12:00PM	1:00PM	3:00PM	Break / Lunch (30 mins)
12:30PM	1:30PM	3:30PM	IAB Academic Debate Motion: Industry has a more important role to play than academia in developing the field of bio-geotechnics For the Motion Michael Basel, Ph.D., P.E. – Market Segment Leader, Haley & Aldrich Chris Hunt, Ph.D., P.E., G.E. – Senior Principal, Geosyntec Consultants Against the Motion Susan E. Burns, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE – Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Alejandro Martinez, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, University of California Davis	IAB Academic Debate Motion
1:30PM	2:30PM	4:30PM	Student Presentations Ishani Kulasekara MS student NMSU (Advisor: Lambis Papelis) “Selenium removal in a hybrid microbial physicochemical system” Yong Tang, PhD student ASU (Advisor: Julian Tao) “Multiscale Analysis of Bio-inspired Rotational Penetration in Sand” Maya El Kortbawi, PhD student UCD (Advisor: Katerina Ziotopoulou) “Bounding surface plasticity modeling for bio-cemented sands” Rodrigo Borela, PhD student GT (Advisor: David Frost) “Effect of penetrometer tip shape in granular beds”	Student Presentations + Closing	Ishani Kulasekara Yong Tang
2:30PM	3:30PM	5:30PM	Closing – Ed Kavazanjian (ASU)

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 – Mid-Year Meeting

ASU / UCD	NMSU	GT	Topic	Videos	Slides [PDF]
8:00AM	9:00AM	11:00AM	Effective Strategies to Combat Racism in Ourselves and Our Workplaces – Yvette Upton	Strategies to combat racism
9:30AM	10:30AM	12:30PM	Break / Lunch
11:00AM	12:00PM	2:00PM	SAB Presentations (Facilitator: David Frost) W. Allen Marr, Ph.D., P.E., NAE, D.GE, F.ASCE Chief Executive Officer, Geocomp & GeoTesting Express Vernon Schaefer, Ph.D., P.E. James M. Hoover Professor in Geotechnical Engineering, Iowa State University R. Kerry Rowe, Ph.D., DEng., DSc(hc), FRS, NAE, FREng, FRSC, FCAE, FEIC, ASCE, FIE(Aust), FCSCE, P.Eng, CP.Eng. Barrington Batchelor Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair, Queen’s University	SAB Presentations	Vernon Schaefer
12:00PM	1:00PM	3:00PM	Break / Lunch
12:30PM	1:30PM	3:30PM	Senior Investigator Sessions (15 mins each) Leon van Paassen, Associate Professor, ASU “How burping bacteria mitigate earthquake liquefaction, mesoscale tank tests” Douglas Cortes Associate Professor, NMSU. “Utilitarian subterranean annelid-inspired geo-probe” Anca Delgado, Assistant Professor, ASU “New bioremediation strategies for impacted groundwater” Jackie Pena, Assistant Professor, UCD “Optimizing manganese bio-mineralization in granular media” Sheng Dai, Assistant Professor, GT, “Angel-wing inspired hard rock drilling’” Paola Bandini Associate Professor, NMSU. “Enzyme induced carbonate precipitation (EICP) for erosion control in sands” Mike Gomez, Assistant Professor UW “Liquefaction behavior of bio-cemented sands: A path forward from Element to Systems-level Response" Susan Burns, Professor, GT “Extending carbonate precipitation technology usage through international C2C collaboration”.	Senior Investigator Session + Closing	Douglas Cortes Anca Delgado Mike Gomez
2:30PM	3:30PM	5:30PM	Closing – Ed Kavazanjian (ASU)