Topics
Representative Congress topics include:
Track I: Geo-hazards and Mitigation
- Floods and flood control
- Landslides
- Marine geotechnics
- Earthquakes and tsunamis
- Expansive soils and collapsible soils
- Soil and sediment erosion
- Soil physicochemical interactions/improvement
- Unsaturated soil
- Others
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Track II: Waste Management
- Landfill and surface impoundment design and performance
- Geosynthetics
- Alternative covers
- Bioreactor landfills
- Subsurface barriers (walls)
- Waste mechanics
- Materials reuse and recycling
- Mine tailings, sludges and sediments
- Nuclear waste disposal/containment
- Others
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Track III: Remediation
- Remediation of soil, sediment, sludge, groundwater,&
- Biological
- Chemical
- Physicochemical
- Integrated
- PRBs
- Emerging technologies (Nanotechnologies)
- Emerging contaminants
- Others
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Track IV: Modeling
- Contaminant transport modeling
- NAPLs fate and behavior
- Scaling
- Coupled processes
- Reactivity and kinetics
- Environmental geomechanics
- Advances in numerical methods
- Others
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Track V: Testing, Characterization and Monitoring
- Soil and waste testing (lab and field)
- Site assessment
- Subsurface characterization and monitoring
- Imaging
- Remote sensing
- GIS
- Sensors
- Others
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Track VI: Sustainability
- Land and water management
- Watershed and groundwater protection
- Geo-Hazard preparedness and resiliency
- Risk assessment
- Brownfields
- Soil and sediment conservation
- Sustainable underground
- Lifecycle analysis
- Climate Change Impacts
- Legal/Regulatory/Policy
- Education
- Others
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Papers can address any of the following aspects:
- Adaptive management strategies
- Analysis and design
- Applications of geophysics
- Applications of geosynthetics
- Case studies
- Coupled flow and transport processes
- Economic and societal issues
- Educational activities
- Material properties (soil, waste, geosynthetics, composites)
- Modeling and computational methods
- Optimization
- Regulations and policy making
- Risk assessment and management
- Site characterization and in situ testing and monitoring (invasive and noninvasive methods and sensing systems)
- Sustainability, indicators, drivers, deliverables
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