http://www.mygeoworld.comAdda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos Postsen-usGreatly enjoyed presenting at the Annual Southwest Arizona G-I chapter Symposium on October 25, 2021, on the Lessons learned from past levee failures and the challenges these complex systems will face in the future due to extreme events! https://lnkd.in/eqMuEJRQTue, 16 Nov 2021 20:52:42 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/149203Join us for interesting and insightful discussions on the challenges of Urban Sustainability at the 2021 Urban Sustainability Symposium hosted by Cal State LA this Thursday, November 18, 2021 (register at https://www.calstatela.edu/academic/sikand/2021-urban-sustainability-symposium)Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:40:14 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/149202I had a great conversation with CNN's John Vause, on his show last week, on the impact of #climatechange and the need for continued investment in #infrastructure.Sun, 05 Sep 2021 17:04:11 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/149047We welcome the incoming MS class of 2021-2022! 36 new Master's students joining us this year! So exciting to be back on the beautiful UC Berkeley campus!Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:12:12 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/149034Check out the new ASCE Special Publication on the 2020 Edenville and Sanford Dam failures in Michigan. The report is available by ASCE at: https://sp360.asce.org/PersonifyEbusiness/Merchandise/Product-Details/productId/274480464Fri, 06 Aug 2021 21:00:15 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148983Our GEER report on the 2020 M6.4 Petrinja earthquake was just published. Great collaboration among many professionals! It is available at: http://www.geerassociation.org/administrator/components/com_geer_reports/geerfiles/2020%20Croatia%20Report%20-%20GEER.pdfFri, 06 Aug 2021 20:58:27 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148982Check out my presentation on "Performance of Levees: Learning from the Past-Looking to the Future" for the Vancouver Geotechnical Society Lecture Series (1/12/2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrOpQHyhp30&feature=emb_logoSat, 30 Jan 2021 01:16:17 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148780Excited for our research project on "Liquefaction Evaluation of Gravels" to be among those funded by PEER in 2021! More info here: https://peer.berkeley.edu/news/projects-awarded-peer-tsrp-rfp-20-02-and-peer-bridge-program?utm_source=PEER+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=6848f1f779-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_June_12_2019_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_07f631cf22-6848f1f779-460052389Sat, 30 Jan 2021 01:10:18 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148779It was a lot of fun to appear on the Director's Cut Series with Brad Keelor! We talk all thing geotech and not. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/qF-h-7LrxDkWed, 13 Jan 2021 22:58:00 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148757Presenting on levee performance following hurricanes and earthquakes for the Vancouver Geotechnical Society this Tuesday (1/12) at 5:30pm PST! See link for details: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6752775038686027776/Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:38:47 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148748Honored to deliver the 30th Annual Mueser Rutledge Memorial Lecture on "Liquefaction of Gravelly Soil and the Impact on Critical Infrastructure" https://www.ascemetsection.org/images/files/geotech/2020_seminar/2020-11-11_Lecture_Announcement_-_30th_Annual_MRCE_Lecture.pdfSat, 31 Oct 2020 21:53:54 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148667Excited to share insights and lessons learned on levee response from past natural disasters as well as some of our ongoing research! Use this link to register for the ND ASCE Annual Meeting on October 23 (12pm CT): https://lnkd.in/gSkCsiiThu, 08 Oct 2020 21:17:54 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148642Looking forward to discussing "Pile driving induced vibrations and their effects on nearby structures" tomorrow at the ASCE WI Section Annual Meeting! https://lnkd.in/gBeAHejThu, 17 Sep 2020 21:01:52 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148619Feeling very honored and excited to receive the 2020 TC203 Young Researcher Award! https://ce.berkeley.edu/news/2405Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:39:01 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148425I'm honored to have been elected President of the USUCGER (www.usucger.org). I look forward to working with the members of our Board and the University Members towards our goals for continued development and expansion of high quality geomechanical, geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering research and education!Fri, 13 Mar 2020 01:28:34 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148358Looking forward to seeing colleagues and friends next week during GeoCongress 2020 in Minneapolis! Make sure you check out the Special Session on Advances in Geomechanics and Geocomputing where Nina Zabihi will be presenting our DEM work, and Michelle Basham's poster in the Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics section (48B). Both presenting on 2/26!!! https://www.geocongress.org/programWed, 19 Feb 2020 21:56:17 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148328Excited to be presenting some of our work on the liquefaction of gravels this Friday (1/17) at the 2020 PEER Annual Meeting in Berkeley, CA! https://peer.berkeley.edu/news-and-events/2020-peer-annual-meeting/programTue, 14 Jan 2020 03:46:20 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148257Prof. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos has joined the CEE faculty at the University of California, Berkeley starting January 2020! https://ce.berkeley.edu/news/2287Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:47:21 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148253Tune in for the upcoming Geo-Institute 4th Live Annual Webinars to hear Dr. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos present on the Performance of Levees https://www.geoinstitute.org/index.php/events/web-conferences-2019Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:55:44 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/148218Join us at the DFI Superpile '19 pre-conference workshop on Impact Testing for Site Characterization in Seattle on May 1st!!! Excited to share our work on gravelly soils assessment using the DPT!! https://events.american-tradeshow.com/superpile/workshopMon, 15 Apr 2019 23:08:58 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/147932Looking forward to presenting at the Purdue Geotechnical Society Workshop on April 26th and then listening to Prof. Steve Kramer deliver the 17th Leonards Lecture! https://engineering.purdue.edu/PGS/PGS-2019-Workshop-Program-v3-18-19.pdfMon, 15 Apr 2019 23:03:55 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/147931Check out our paper on "Monotonic and cyclic simple shear response of gravel-sand mixtures" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0267726117309855?via%3DihubMon, 18 Feb 2019 19:30:33 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/147862Looking forward to serving on the USUCGER Board of Directors!!!Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:33:43 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/147861Excited to moderate the Levees Session at the 2019 US Society on Dams conference in Chicago! See you 8-11 April!Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:25:13 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/147860Presenting at the 4th annual ACEC NY Geotechnical Symposium! http://www.acecny.org/uploads/events/1492450967_Symposium%20Agenda%20Invitation%202017.pdfTue, 09 May 2017 18:28:27 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/147486At the National Science Foundation for the Workshop on Networking for Geotechnical Women Faculty: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1536542Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:41:14 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/147480Looking forward to the "2017 GeoEngineering Distinguished Lecture Series – A Day for Ray", http://peer.berkeley.edu/geoengineering_lecture/Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:38:24 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/147470Great experience documenting landslides, fault rupture and liquefaction from the New Zealand November 13, 2016 Kaikoura earthquake with the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) team. http://cee.umich.edu/adda-athanasopoulos-zekkos-new-zealandMon, 12 Dec 2016 21:45:36 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/133790The GEER report on the 2016 Muisne, Ecuador Earthquake is available at: http://www.geerassociation.org/component/geer_reports/?view=geerreports&id=77&layout=defaultSat, 15 Oct 2016 19:29:03 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/129970Associate Professor Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos is part of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) team that has been mobilized to investigate the potential impacts of the widespread earthquake-induced geotechnical and subsurface infrastructure failures as a result of the April 16, 2016 M7.8 earthquake that occurred offshore of the west coast of northern Ecuador. read more at: http://cee.engin.umich.edu/professor-athanasopoulos-zekkos-investigates-ecuadorian-earthquakeMon, 02 May 2016 08:49:08 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/117866Featured in the Member Profile Article in the March/April 2016 Issue of "Deep Foundations", the magazine of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI)! read at: http://dfi.epaperflip.com/v/March-April-2016/#?page=64Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:42:10 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/117574Excited to be part of this great video promoting engineering for the University of Michigan Campus Day!!! Go Blue!!! https://youtu.be/6JtvLuA8ccsSat, 06 Feb 2016 10:50:54 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/109534Professor Athanasopoulos-Zekkos selected for the 2016 Chi Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award for the Great Lakes District http://cee.engin.umich.edu/professor-athanasopoulos-zekkos-selected-excellence-teaching-awardWed, 13 Jan 2016 13:24:57 -0500https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/107785check out a short video on our MDOT-sponsored research on pile-driving induced vibrations! http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/about/news/stories/2015/may/sensors The final project report can be downloaded at: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/RC1600_451885_7.pdfFri, 15 May 2015 14:47:44 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/87127Women Faculty in geotechnical engineering are invited to join the: International Network for Women Faculty in Geotechnical Engineering: http://www.mygeoworld.info/groups/profile/52124/international-network-for-women-faculty-in-geotechnical-engineeringFri, 17 May 2013 21:02:38 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/52148participating at the Second PRC-US Earthquake Engineering Young Researchers Forum in Harbin and Beijing from May 18-24!!!Mon, 14 May 2012 20:40:40 -0400https://www.mygeoworld.com/posts/32123