Keynote Presentations with Published Abstracts

Application of Case Histories in Education, Distinguished Speaker - Session 11: 6th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, Arlington, VA, August 11-16, 2008, Abstract Volume, Session 11.

Recent Geotechnical Developments in Geospatial Information Systems Technology (with Ronaldo Luna), State-of-the-Practice presentation Session SOAP 5,  6th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, Arlington, VA, August 16, 2008, Paper No. SOAP 5, 17 p.

Consequences Resulting from a Major Earthquake in the Central US: for the opening session of the New Madrid Seismic Zone Conference: Preparing for a Significant Central U.S. Earthquake, sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey Mid-Continent Geographic Science Center, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Geology and Land Survey Division of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Missouri Emergency Management Agency, and the Society of American Military Engineers, August 13-14, 2008, Rolla, MO.   

Evolution of Engineering Geology in Southern California, Keynote Presentation for the Plenary Session 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the  Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists, Los Angeles, CA, September 24, 2007.

Hoover Dam: How it changed America and the World, Keynote Presentation for the AEG Outstanding Project Award Program, Plenary Session 48th Annual Meeting of the Association of Engineering Geologists, Las Vegas, NV, September 21, 2005.

Overview of the Seismic Threat Posed by the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Keynote presentation for the Geotechnical and Bridge Design Workshop: New Madrid Seismic Zone Experience, Cape Girardeau, MO, Oct 28-29, 2004, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, Missouri Department of Transportation, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, University Transportation Center and University of Missouri-Rolla.

Impact of Geographical Information Systems on Geotechnical Engineering, State-of-the-Practice presentation Session OSP 3, Abstract Volume, 5th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, New York, April 11-17, 2004, Paper No. OSP-3.
 
State-of-the-Practice in Characterization of Landslide Prone Terrain Using Remote Sensing Platforms, Global Positioning Satellites and Geographical Information Systems Technology, Keynote  presentation for topical session on "Characterizing Complexity in Geomechanics, Engineering Geology, and Hydrogeology", Abstracts with Program, Annual Meeting Geological Society of America, v. 35:6, Seattle, Nov., 2003, pp. 42.
Reassessment of the St. Francis Dam Failure (2003): Lecture series commemorating 75th anniversary of St. Francis Dam failure. Sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles, Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society, California Oil Museum, Ventura County Museum of History & Art, and the Huntington Library. March 8-13, 2003.    

Dams and Disasters: A Brief Overview of Dam Building in California (2002-03): California Colloquium on Water Lectures sponsored by the University of California Water Resources Center Archives, the Center for California Studies at U.C. Berkeley, Department of Civil Engineering at U.C. Berkeley, State of California Department of Water Resources, Division of Safety of Dams, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the California Academy of Sciences.  California Colloquium on Water Lectures were given in Berkeley (November 2002), Sacramento (January 2003) and Los Angeles (January 2003).

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 Paradigm of Change, School of Science Commencement Address, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Sat June 9, 2001.

The 1928 St. Francis Dam Failure: Its impact on California History and the Civil Engineering Profession: 2001 Trent Dames Civil Engineering Heritage Lecture, Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA on April 10, 2001.

Mentors, failures and the future of engineering geology: Shlemon Applied Geology Luncheon speaker, Geological Society of America Centennial Cordilleran Section Meeting, Berkeley, CA on June 4, 1999.

Evolution of Uplift and Effective Stress Theories, Keynote Presentation, ASCE GeoExpo, Los Angeles Section American Society of Civil Engineers, RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA  May 26, 1999 (with Ralph B. Peck and Richard E. Goodman).

Honoring the Fallen, Keynote Memorial Day Address, Rededication of the Contra Costa County Soldiers Monument, Pleasant Hill, CA on May 25, 1998.

Reassessment of the St. Francis Dam Failure, Banquet Lecture, Association of Engineering Geologists Texas Section Spring Banquet, College Station, TX on April 5, 1997. 

Reassessment of the St. Francis Dam Failure, Banquet Lecture, 32nd Engineering Geology & Geotechnical Engineering Symposium, Boise, ID  on March 27, 1997.

Looking Back at the St. Francis Dam Failure and the Birth of Engineering Geology in America, special presentation of the EGD/AEG 1996 R.H. Jahns Distinguished Lecture in Engineering Geology, (1996), Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Vol. 28, Issue 7, p. 282, Denver, CO, Oct. 28, 1996.