The Purdue Geotechnical Society is pleased to announce the 11th edition of the Purdue Geotechnical Workshop and 11th G.A. Leonards Lecture that will take place on Friday April 19, 2013 on the Purdue campus in West Lafayette, Indiana.

The 2013 PGS workshop is entitled “Soilmakers: Engineering Soil for Geoenvironmental Applications”. The theme of the workshop is inspired by the topic of this year’s Leonards Lecture, in honor of Professor G.A. Leonards, a Purdue geotech faculty member from 1946 to 1991 and a great of the geotechnical engineering profession.

The 11th G.A. Leonards Lecture entitled “ORGANOCLAYS: NOVEL BARRIER MEDIA FOR MANAGING GROUNDWATER FLOW AND TRANSPORT AT NAPL-SITES” will be delivered by Dr. Craig Benson, P.E., DGE, NAE, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a world-known expert, researcher and educator in the field of environmental geotechnics. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Krannert Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. The PGS is thrilled that Prof. Benson has agreed to present this year’s Leonards lecture as he embodies many of the qualities that made G.A. Leonards a legend as a professor and an engineer.

The workshop will precede the Leonards Lecture, starting at 8 a.m. in the Purdue Memorial Union. The program includes two keynote lectures: one by Prof. Krishna Reddy of the University of Illinois at Chicago, on modifying cover soil for controlling methane in landfills; the second by Dr. David Espinoza of Geosyntec Consulants who will tell us a tale of sludge lagoons. Other nine shorter presentations complete the program and cover a variety of exciting topics.

More detail on the Leonards Lecture is attached, as well as the PGS workshop program and registration form. Information can also be found at https://eng.purdue.edu/PGS or by contacting Philippe Bourdeau at [email protected]

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