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Programme
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
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2:00 – 4:30 pm :
4:30 pm :
5:30 pm :
7:00 pm :
8:30 – 10:00 pm : |
Arrival & check-in at MIT Endicott House Facility
Welcome reception (EH - Gun Room)
Dinner, Vision & Scope, Introductions (EH - Living Room)
Evening Lecture: “Current Boundaries and Needs of Our Disciplines” (EH - Living Room)
Moderators Jason DeJong & Kenichi Soga
Lecturers: Ed Kavazanjian on behalf of Jim Mitchell
Cash Bar (EH - Gun Room)
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Monday, April 2, 2007
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8:00 am :
9:00 am :
10:30 am : |
Breakfast (EH - Dining Room)
Geotechnical Engineering Lectures (BC – Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Julio Valdez
Lecturers: Stephan Jefferis, Carlos Santamarina, Willem van der Zon
Geotechnical Engineering Poster Presentations (BC – Seminar A & B)
Poster Presenters: Scott Brandenburg, Jason DeJong, Michael Harbottle, Ed Kavazanjian, John McDougall, Waldo Molendijk, Mary Roth, Kenichi Soga, Julio Valdez,
Other participants consider the following questions:
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- What have I seen/learned that is of relevance to what I do?
- What do I do that is of relevance to what I have seen/learned?
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11:30 am :
12:00 pm :
2:00 pm : |
Geotechnical Engineering Workshop Discussion (BC – Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Julio Valdez & Carlos Santamarina
Lunch (Dining Room)
Microbiology & Geochemistry Lectures (BC – Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Jon Lloyd
Lecturers: Thomas Kieft, Sookie Bang, Ian Thompson
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3:30 pm : |
Microbiology & Geochemistry Poster Presentations (BC – Seminar A & B)
Poster Presenters: Steven Banwart, Philip Bennett, Simon Bottrell, Laurie Caslake, Jon Lloyd, Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Doug Nelson, Klaus Nüsslein, Patricia Sobecky
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4:30 pm :
5:00 pm :
6:00 pm :
7.00 pm : |
Microbiology & Geochemistry Workshop Discussion (BC – Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Jon Lloyd
Break
Dinner (EH - Living Room)
Evening Lecture: “Current Boundaries and Needs of Our Disciplines” (EH - Living Room)
Moderators Jason DeJong & Kenichi Soga
Lecturer: Iain Young
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8:00 – 10:00 pm : |
Cash Bar (EH - Living Room)
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007
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8:00 am :
9:00 am : |
Breakfast (EH – Dining Room)
Soil Science & Geoenvironmental Lectures (BC – Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Robert Smith
Lecturers: Dave Manning, Akram Alshawabkeh, Bob Kalin |
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10:30 am : |
Soil Science & Geoenvironmental Poster Presentations (BC – Seminar A & B)
Poster Presenters: Glyn Bengough, Susan Burns, April Gu, Phil Haygarth, Mike Humpherys, Steve McGrath, George Redden, Jane Rickson, Robert Smith, Doug Stewart, Richard Whalley
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11:30 am :
12:00 pm :
2:00 pm :
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Soil Science & Geoenvironmental Workshop Discussion (BC – Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Robert Smith
Lunch (EH – Dining Room)
Process Monitoring & Measurements – the Interdisciplinary Toolbox (BC – Lecture Hall)
Moderator: Susan Burns
Lecturers: Mike Humpherys & all participants with 3-5 minute “nugget” presentation
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4:00 pm :
6:00 pm :
8:00 – 10:00 pm : |
Brainstorming Sessions in Research Interest Groups (BC – Lecture Hall, Seminar A, B, & C)
Discussion Facilitators: TBD
Dinner (EH – Living Room)
Discussion Sessions
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
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8:00 am :
9:00 am : |
Breakfast (EH – Dining Room)
Synthesis of Research Opportunities (BC – Lecture Hall)
Moderators: Jason DeJong & Kenichi Soga
Lecturer: Richard Fragaszy |
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10:30 am :
11:00 am : |
Refreshment break
Synthesis of Educational Opportunities (BC – Lecture Hall)
Moderators: Mary Roth & Steve Banwart
Discussion Points: |
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- Overview of IGERT Education Program at Virginia Tech
- Education needs by discipline
- Education needs at K-12, undergrad, and graduate levels
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12:30 pm :
1:30 - 2:00 pm : |
Lunch & Closing Remarks (BC – Dining Hall)
Check-out & Depart |
Discipline Presenatations
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Geotechnical Lectures:
James K. Mitchell (given by Ed Kavazanjian), “New Frontiers in Geotechnical Engineering, Challenges and Opportunities”
Stephan Jefferis, “A problem derived perspective to promote pro-active management”
J. Carlos Santamarina, “Biological Considerations in Geotechnical Engineering”
Willem van der Zon, “BioGrout, Past-Present-Future”
Geotechnical Presentations:
Scott Brandenburg, “A Bender Element System for Measuring Shear Wave Velocities in Centrifuge Models”
Jason DeJong, “Microbially Induced Calcite Cementation to Improve Soil Behavior”
Michael Harbottle, “Biodegradation of stabilized/solidified (S/S) organic contaminants, and Electrokinetic enhancement of biodegradation.”
Michael Harbottle, “Recent Research Projects Related to Bio-Soils Interactions”
Ed Kavazanjian, “Biological Improvement of Soils”
John McDougall, “Hydro-bio-mechanical (HBM) modeling”
Waldo Molendijk, “SmartSoils, Soils on Demand”
Mary Roth, “Increasing Sand Strength with Bacteria… the engineer’s perspective”
Kenichi Soga, Matthew Kuo, “Living Organisms: Are they the Original Ground Engineers”
Julio Valdez, “Stress – Controlled Filtration”
Stephan Jefferis, “ROTAS – A new field analytical tool to measure the total toxicity of soil”
J. Carlos Santamarina, “Influence of Microorganisms in Soil Behavior”
Ning Liu, “Soil & Site Characterization using Electromagnetic Waves”
Microbiology & Geochemistry Lectures:
Iain Young, “Bioengineering Soils”
Thomas Kieft, “Assessing Abundance, Activities, and Biodiversity in Engineered Soils”
Sookie Bang, “Selective Cementation Induced by Microbial Activities”
Ian Thompson, “Sustainable Clean-up of Contaminated Soils”
Microbiology & Geochemistry Posters:
Steven Banwart, “FTIR micro-spectroscopy and potentiometric titrations to characterize the interactions occurring at the bacterial cell – solid interface”
Steven Banwart, “The Cell-Mineral Interface Research Programme”
Steven Banwart, “Quantitative Measurement of Colloid & Microbe Transport in Unsaturated Sand at Meso-Scale using UV-Fluorescence Imaging”
Steven Banwart, “The Multi-Factorial Analysis of Cell-Mineral Interactions in Diverse Systems”
Simon Bottrell, “Stable Isotopes and other Tracers in Contaminant Hydrogeology and Biodegradation”
Laurie Caslake, “Increasing Sand Strength with Bacteria… the biologist’s perpective”
Jon Lloyd, “Solid-state Biotechnology: Nano-spinel synthesis by FE(III)-reducing bacteria”
Jon Lloyd, “Experimental studies of FE(III) mineral reduction by Geobacter”
Klaus Nüsslein
Patricia Sobecky, “Aerobic Uranium U(VI) Bioprecipitation by Metal Resistant Bacteria Isolated from Radionuclide – and Metal – Contaminated Subsurface Soils”
Soil Science & Geoenvironmental Lectures:
Dave Manning, “Engineering Soils to Capture Carbon”
Akram Alshawabkeh, “Electrochemical Methods for Enhanced Bioremediation”
Bob Kalin, “Engineering Soil/Bio Interaction, The soft touch…”
Soil Science & Geoenvironmental Posters:
Glen Bengough, “Mechanical stabilization of slopes by plant root systems”
Susan Burns, “Coupled Mechanical and Chemical Behavior of Bentonite Engineered with a Controlled Organic Phase”
Ferran Garcia-Pichel, “Rope-building microbes as erosion-control engineers”
April Gu, “A VC-Mineralizing Consortium is Dominated by Novel Flixibacter Species”
Phil Haygarth, “Biological effects on catchment scale processes”
Phil Haygarth, “A conceptual model describing the effects of soil wetting and drying on phosphorus biogeochemistry”
Phil Haygarth, “Evidence for diurnal fluctuations in dissolved phosphorus concentration in a small moorland river”
Mike Humphreys, “Grass Roots to Improve the Management of Soil-Water”
Bob Kalin, “In-Situ Enhanced Soil Treatment for Biodegradation”
Davis Manning, “Multidimensional characterization of soil carbon pools using stable isotope and quadrupole mass spectrometry couple to thermal analysis”
Steve McGrath, “Soil Pollution Assessment and Remediation”
George Redden, “BSSC-1042: Calcium carbonate precipitation along solution-solution interfaces in porous media”
Jane Rickson
Robert Smith, “Microbially Facilitated Calcite Precipitation for Remediation of Strontium-90 (EMSP Project 87016)”
Robert Smith, “In situ stabilization of 90Sr by microbially facilitated calcite precipitation”
Doug Stewart, “Stimulation of microbially-mediated chromate reduction in alkaline COPR contaminated soils”
Richard Whalley, “Soil-root Interactions”
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Photo Gallery
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