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Sponsored by ASCE's Geo-Institute's Technical Committees

INSTRUCTORS: 
Arvin Farid, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Sahba Azad, A.M.ASCE
Jim Browning, M.ASCE
Elisa Barney Smith, M.ASCE
Idil D. Akin, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Jongwan Eun, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Joe Scalia, IV, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE

Purpose and Background

The geo-environmental engineering field deals with a broad range of environmental issues impacting the natural and manmade soil-based environment, ranging from mitigation of, contamination by, and restoration post-natural-hazards to sustainability, performance monitoring, and other emerging issues. This session will focus on emerging issues and innovative solutions. The session will start with a focus on natural hazards, specifically wildfires, and their impact on soil properties, compromising soil integrity and slope stability, and an innovative way to restore soil integrity. Sustainability will be the next topic covered where, first, reduction of methane gas emissions off landfills is discussed in order to address sustainability within the context of climate change. Then monitoring the performance of landfill barriers (e.g., clay, geosynthetic clay liners, GCL) to maintain their performance, improve their sustainability, and reduce their hazards using innovative tools such as the internet of things (IoT) is discussed. Another aspect of sustainable stewardship is to understand unforeseen impacts of using innovative tools such as geophysical or communication technologies, to ensure there is no secondary deteriorating impact on soil properties; thus, the impact of EM waves on clay properties is discussed at the end.

Benefits and Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Apply lessons learned from wildfires’ negative impacts on soil properties and slope stability along with mitigation and restoration
• Use sustainable design, make improvements, and monitor landfill barriers and covers
• Explain innovative monitoring and characterization tools and their impact on measurement
• Explain wildfire impacts on soil properties and resulting implications as well as advances in their mitigation and remediation.
• Explain aspects of and advances in sustainable landfill design and monitoring.
• Explain the unforeseen impacts of using various technologies used for monitoring, characterization, or remediation.

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed through a short post-test (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Who Should Attend

Environmental Engineers, Geologists, Geotechnical Engineers, Hydrologist

Outline

• Impact of Electromagnetic Waves on Clay Properties
• Surficial stabilization of wildfire-burnt hillslopes using xanthan gum and polyacrylamide
• Effective Reduction of Landfill Gas Emission through Intermediate Covers with Innovative Geomembranes
• Internet of Things Monitoring of Biogeochemical Conditions Within an Oleophilic Bio-Barrier

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]