GeoEngineering
Faculty
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ALEX
BECKER, Professor
Exploration geophysics, electrical
and magnetic exploration, gravimetry
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JONATHAN BRAY,
Professor
Geotechnical and earthquake
engineering; numerical and physical modeling; fault rupture; geosynthetics;
and waste fills.
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GEORGE A.
COOPER, Professor
3D real-time simulation of
drilling and logging with measurement while drilling; Web distributed simulations
and data acquisition; cryogenic drilling; diamond tooth wear; electro-osmosis
to reduce bit balling.
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STEVEN GLASER,
Associate Professor
Active and passive monitoring
of propagation; in situ characterization of soils by System Identification;
rock mechanics; engineering geophysics and wave propagation.
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H.
FRANK MORRISON, Professor, Malozemoff Chair
Applied geophysics, electromagnetic
methods, electrical properties of rocks and soils, field surveys and interpretation.
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TAD
W. PATZEK, Associate Professor
Reservoir engineering; quasi-static
and dynamic pore network simulators; pore networks from depositional models
and rock images; finite element simulators of multiphase flow of fluids
and energy with embedded arbitrary fractures and deviated wells; satellite
InSAR images and tiltmeters in large-scale oilfield control
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JUAN M.
PESTANA, Assistant Professor
Constitutive modeling of stress-strain-strength
properties of soils; numerical modeling of soil-structure interaction using
advanced material models; drained and undrained cyclic response of cohesionless
soils; time dependent behavior of cohesive soils; soil property characterization
and environmental geotechnics.
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JAMES
W. RECTOR, Associate Professor
Exploration geophysics, applied
seismology
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YORAM RUBIN,
Professor
Hydrogeologic modeling of
flow and contaminant transport in soils and rocks; geostatistics and stochastic
methods; and geophysical characterization of heterogeneous geologic media.
Developer of GEOGEN to simulate geology using stochastic methods.
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RAYMOND B.
SEED, Professor
Soil/structure interaction;
slope stability and performance of dams and waste fills; environmental
geotechnics; and geotechnical earthquake engineering including seismic
safety issues.
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NICHOLAS SITAR,
Chancellor's Professor
Characterization of weakly
cemented soils and weak, porous rocks under static and dynamic loading;
development of techniques for stochastic modeling of groundwater contaminant
transport; movement of nonaqueous liquids in groundwater and development
of cleanup methods; discontinuous deformation analysis of stability in
soils and rocks.
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Adjunct
Faculty
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MICHAEL F.
RIEMER, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Director of Geotechnical Laboratories
Static and dynamic evaluation
of soil properties; constitutive behavior of sands; effects of non-uniformity
of samples on measurement of properties; and liquefaction of unusual soils,
including clayey and micaceous sands. Consultant on advanced laboratory
and field testing.
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J.
DAVID ROGERS, Lecturer
Engineering geologic characterization
of landslides, embankments, and sediments; long- term behavior of urban
embankments, including effects of seismic loading, hydrocompression, creep,
long-term strength loss; emergency repair methodologies with geomembranes;
engineering law. Active consulting engineer and geologist.
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Affiliated
Faculty
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| JOHN HARVEY, |
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Emeriti
Faculty
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TOR
L. BREKKE, Professor Emeritus
Rock and soil tunneling; engineering
of underground openings; pressure tunnels and shafts; water and subway
tunnels. Member of the Norwegian and Swedish Academies of Engineering.
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RICHARD
E. GOODMAN, Edward G. and John
R. Cahill Professor Emeritus
Characterization and analysis
of discontinuous rocks, and of melange, decomposed granites, and other
rock materials approximated as binary mixtures; and foundations of dams
and penstocks. Author of books on geological engineering, rock mechanics,
block theory (with Gen-hua Shi), and engineering geology.
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