SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

Major Field Advisor – Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows

Niklas Putnam, Ph.D. candidate geological engineering, expected graduation December 2008, studying Determination of tunnel detection limits using MASW method in a comparative study

Conor M. Watkins, Ph. D. candidate geological engineering, expected graduation in May 2009, Mechanisms and genesis of Megalandslides in the Grand Canyon Region of northern Arizona

Dr. Jae-won Chung, Post-doctoral fellow working on developing a front end interactive GIS map custom coded with ArcIMS, which could be used to generate the map images in HTML, which can be used to access any virtual geotechnical database.  January thru December 2008.
 
Dr. Ahmed M. Youssef, of Sohag University in Egypt.  Came to UMR on a post-doctoral appointment from Egyptian Ministry of Education, May thru June 2007.

Dr. Ganesh Dhakal, Post-doctoral fellow working with me during 2004-05 to evaluate: Impacts of strain softening in clay shales on gross slope instability