Upcoming Events

11/20/2024 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Lawrence M. Magura, P.E., Principal Water Resources Engineer at Black & Veatch, Lake Oswego | Topic: Crystal Springs Dam: The Oldest Mass Concrete Dam in the World | Portland, OR

Recent Past Events

4/13/2023 - Oregon Geotechnical Group / YMF Joint Dinner Meeting | Joe O’Carroll, P.E., Senior Vice President | Topic: Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknowns Unknowns: Managing Geotechnical Risk using a combination of GBRs and Quantitative Risk Analysis | Portland, OR

3/9/2023 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Scott M. Olson, Associate Head, Professor, and Faculty Excellence Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. | Topic: Ground Deflection Walls to Mitigate Lateral Spreading Forces on Large Foundation Systems | Portland, OR

2/9/2023 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Stephen Dickenson, President, New Albion Geotechnical, Inc. | Topic: Characterizing the Cyclic Behavior of Unique Soils for Performance Based Design | Portland, OR

2/3/2023 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Short Course | Dr. Michael Beaty, President, Beaty Engineering LLC; Dr. Arash Khosravifar, Dr. Diane Moug, Assistant Professors, Portland State University; Dr. Armin Stuedlein, Professor, Oregon State University | Topic: Recent Perspectives and Practices for Seismic Design in Pacific NW Silts | Portland, OR

12/12/2022 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Bob Holtz, Professor Emeritus University of Washington | Topic: Lessons Learned from Three Geosynthetic Failures | Portland, OR

11/17/2022 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Doug Schwarm, Atlas Geotechnical | Topic: Problem Solving with the Observational Method | Portland, OR

10/18/2022 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Joseph Gildner, Sound Transit | Topic: Owner’s Perspective on Geotechnical Risk in Heavy Civil Construction | Portland, OR

9/15/2022 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Nason McCullough, Jacobs | Topic: PacWave South Underground Construction for Wave Energy Research | Portland, OR

5/4/2022 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Wade Osborne, P.E. (Cornforth Consultants), Curtis Loeb, P.E. (Wolf Water Resources) | Topic: Steigerwald Restoration Project | Portland, OR

4/13/2022 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Silas Nichols, US Federal Highway Administration | Topic: Challenges with Large Diameter Foundation Elements | Portland, OR

3/2/2022 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Jason Kelly (DOWL) and Allison Pyrch (Hart Crowser) | Topic: Geotechnical Challenges, Risks and Mitigation in the City of Oregon City | Portland, OR

1/25/2022 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Orion George (FHWA), Scott Anderson (BGC Engineering), and Denny Capps (Denali National Park Geologist) | Topic: Pretty Rocks Landslide in Denali National Park | Portland, OR

12/8/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Annual Short Course | Emeritus Dr. Dov Leschinsky & Dr. Ben Leschinsky | Topic: Geosynthetic Reinforced Walls and Slopes | Portland, OR

12/1/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Keith Mills, Oregon Water Resources Department | Topic: Improving Geotechnical Resiliency of Dams in Oregon | Portland, OR

11/3/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Ali Khosravi, Oregon State University | Topic: Bio-Inspired Self-Burrowing and Site Investigation: Feasibility Study and Preliminary Results | Portland, OR

10/6/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Ben Leshchinsky, Oregon State University | Topic: Will it Stay or Will it Go? Use of LiDAR to Assess Slope Instability | Portland, OR

9/1/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Daniel Pradel, Ohio State University | Topic: The Failures of Edenville and Sanford Dams on May 19th, 2020 near Midland, MI | Portland, OR

6/30/2021 - Summer BBQ | Portland, OR

6/2/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | John Lowe, Lowe Consulting, LLC | Topic: Managing Professional Liability Claims | Portland, OR

5/5/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Arash Khosravifar, Portland State University | Topic: Microbially Induced Desaturation for Liquefaction Mitigation | Portland, OR

4/7/2021 - Joint Oregon ASCE General and GI Virtual Meeting | Seth Thomas, KPFF | Topic: Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Studies Initiative Building | Portland, OR

3/3/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Armin Stuedlein, Oregon State University | Topic: Blast-Liquefaction Tests to Evaluate the Deep, In Situ, Nonlinear-Inelastic Dynamic Response of Medium Dense Sands at PDX | Portland, OR

2/3/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Michael Beaty, Beaty Engineering | Topic: Challenges in Non-Linear Seismic Deformation Analyses and Case History Example | Portland, OR

1/6/2021 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Tom Westover, Cornforth Consultants | Topic: Accommodating Ancient Landslide Movement with a Compressible Inclusion | Portland, OR

12/3/2020 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Duncan Wyllie, Wyllie & Norrish Rock Engineers| Topic: Seismic Stability of Soil and Rock Slopes | Portland, OR

11/4/2020 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Keith Brown, In Situ Engineering| Topic: In Situ Geotechnical Testing Methods: CPT, PMT and P-S Suspension Logging | Portland, OR

10/7/2020 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Rene’ Renteria, US Forest Service | Topic: Mount St. Helens Geohazards - 40 Years Later | Portland, OR

9/16/2020 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Virtual Meeting | Garrett Fountain, Tensar | Topic: Simplified Bearing Capacity for TriAx Geogrid | Portland, OR

3/5/2020 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Nick O’Riordan, ARUP | Topic: Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction - Understanding the Holocene, Instrumenting the Anthropocene | Portland, OR

2/4/2020 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Shideh Dashti, University of Colorado Boulder | Physics-Informed Semi-Empirical Probablistic Models for Predicting Building Settlement and Tilt on Liquefied Ground | Portland, OR

1/8/2020 - Joint AEG - Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Stuart Albright, PE and Max Gummer, PE, ODOT | Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Disciplines at ODOT | Portland, OR

12/5/2019 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Arash Khosravifar, Portland State Univ. | Seismic Performance of Pile-Supported Piers and Wharves Subjected to Foundation Deformations | Portland, OR

11/19/2019 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Robert Bachus, Geosyntec | Topic: Lessons and Challenges from Rehabilitation of a Major Landslide in Colluvium | Portland, OR

11/4/2019 - Fall Short Course | Dr. Kenichi Soga and Andrew Yeskoo, PE, University of California, Berkeley | Instrumentation and Monitoring: Current State of Practice and Emerging Technologies | ODOT Region 1 Headquarters, Portland, OR

10/2/2019 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Mike Frink, Ideal Group | Topic: Drilled-In Displacement Micropiles: Design Concepts and Case Histories | Portland, OR

9/4/2019 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Scott Brandenberg, UCLA | Topic: A Case History of Adjacent Bridges Exposed to Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading Demands | Portland, OR

5/15/2019 - Joint ASCE Oregon - Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Robb Moss, Cal Poly | Topic: Infrastructure Lifeline Systems: Risk and Reliability | Portland, OR

4/3/2019 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Tim Stark, Univ. of Illinois | Topic: Dynamic Analysis of Fundao Tailing Dam Failure | Portland, OR

3/6/2019 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Max Gummer, ODOT | Topic: OR213 MP 10 Spangler Hill Emergency Slide Mitigation & Monitoring | Portland, OR

2/6/2019 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Don Anderson and Dr. Deepak Rayamaghi, Jacobs | Topic: Geotechnical Considerations for the Seismic Design of the Port of Alaska | Portland, OR

1/16/2019 - Joint AEG - Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Doug Boyer, FERC | Topic: Oroville Spillways Incident and Overview of Re-Construction | Portland, OR

12/12/2018 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Steve Kramer, University of Washington | Topic: Performance-Based Design for Soil Liquefaction | Portland, OR

11/7/2018 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Josh Kolz, Hayward Baker | Topic: Liquefaction Mitigation Techniques | Portland, OR

10/10/2018 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Paul Mayne, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology | Topic: Seismic Piezocone Testing - The Versatile and Complete Means for Geotechnical Site Exploration in 2019 | Portland, OR

9/5/2018 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Armin Stuedlein, Associate Professor, Oregon State Univ. | Topic: Axial and Lateral Performance of Drilled Shaft Foundations with High-Strength Reinforcement and Permanent Casing | Portland, OR

5/31/2018 - Joint ASCE Oregon - Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Mark Havekost, McMillen Jacobs, and Joshua Yacknowitz, ARUP | Topic: Design and Construction of the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility | Portland, OR

4/4/2018 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Stephen Hay, ODOT and Ryan Cole, USFS | Topic: Eagle Creek Fire Geohazard Assessment and Mitigation Measures | Portland, OR

3/7/2018 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Rob Jameson, Malcolm Drilling | Topic: Compression Ring Support of Excavation:  Concept and Practice | Portland, OR

2/21/2018 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Tom O'Rourke, Cornell | Topic: Ground Deformation Effects on Subsurface Pipelines and Infrastructure Systems | Portland, OR

1/24/2018 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Andrew Whittle, MIT | Topic: Advanced Prediction and Control of Ground Deformation | Portland, OR

1/3/2018 - Joint AEG - Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Keith Mills, Oregon Water Resources Department | Topic: The Geotechnical State of Oregon Dams | Portland, OR

12/6/2017 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Diane Moug, Portland State Univ. | Topic: A Direct Cone Penetration Model for Development of Engineering Correlations | Portland, OR

11/1/2017 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Ken Green, PE, CH2M | Topic: Swift No. 2 Dam Failure | Portland, OR

10/30/2017 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | Dr. Kirk Ellison, ARUP | Topic: Numerical Modeling to Support Total Design of Critical Intrastructure | 4:30 pm Kearney Hall, RM 311, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR

10/20/2017 - Fall Short Course | Dr. Timothy Stark, University of Illinois-Champaign, and Dr. Farshid Vahedifard, Mississippi State University | Stability of Natural and Man-Made Slopes: Shear Strengths, Testing, Stability Methods, and Stabilization | ODOT Region 1 Headquarters, Portland, OR

10/5/2017 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | Dr. George Filz, Virginia Tech | Topic: Geotechnical Engineering at the Kennedy Space Center | 4:30 pm Kearney Hall, RM 311, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR

10/4/2017 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. George Filz, Virginia Tech | Topic: Column-supported Embankments | Portland, OR

9/6/2017 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. D.V. Griffiths, PE, CEng, D.Sc, FICE, D.GE, F.ASCE, Professor, Colorado School of Mines | Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering | Portland, OR

5/23/2017 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | Dr. David Frost, PE, F.ASCE, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology | The Evolving Role of Materials in Infrastructure Engineering | Corvallis, OR

5/17/2017 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | James Walters, PE and Stephen McLandrich, PE, Shannon & Wilson | Geotechnical Aspect of the Burnside Bridge Retrofit Study | Corvallis, OR

5/16/2017 - Joint ASCE Oregon - Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Steve Klein, GE, PE, Parsons Brinckerhoff | California High-Speed Rail - Design Considerations for Tunnel Sections | Portland, OR

4/21-22/2017 - Spring Short Course and 34th Annual Spring Seminar | Ground Improvement | Seattle, WA

4/18/2017 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | Dr. Matthew Gibson, PE, Shannon & Wilson | Seismic Analysis of Rock Slopes: Failure Modes and Displacements | Corvallis, OR

4/5/2017 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Marv Pyles, PE, Prof. Emeritus, Oregon State Univ. and Dr. Gunnar Schlieder, RG, CEG, Geoscience, Inc.  | The Oso Landslide: Technical and Legal Issues | Portland, OR

3/23/2017 - Stanley D. Wilson Memorial Lecture | Dr. Steve Kramer, Professor, Univ. of Washington | Time and Soil Liquefaction | Seattle, WA

3/16/2017 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | Daniel Mageau, PE, SoilFreeze, Inc. | Innovative Earth Retention: Frozen Soil Shoring | Corvallis, OR

3/1/2017 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Dov Leshchinsky, PE, ADAMA Engineering and Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Delaware| Limit Equilibrium Design Framework for MSE Structures with Extensible Reinforcement | Portland, OR

2/23/2017 - Portland State University Infrastructure Seminar Series | Ivan Wong, Lettis Consultants International | Predicting Earthquake Hazards and Developing Seismic Design Ground Motions in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: What We Know, Don't Know, and the Challenges Ahead | Portland, OR

2/1/2017 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Kirk Ellison, PE, ARUP | Structure-Soil-Structure-Interaction in a Highly Seismic, Dense, Urban Regeneration Zone in Downtown San Francisco | Portland, OR

1/19/2017 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | Dr. Deepak Rayamajhi, CH2M | Application of Numerical Methods to Evaluate Seismic Response of Soil-Structure-Interaction Systems | Corvallis, OR

1/17/2017 - Joint AEG - Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Scott Anderson, PE, FHWA  | Solid as a Rock: How Engineering Geology Relates to Transportation Asset Management | Portland, OR

12/7/2016 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. T. Matthew Evans, Associate Prof., Oregon State Univ. | Bio-Cementation of Sands:  A Granular Perspective | Lake Oswego, OR

11/9/2016 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | Scott Anderson, PE, FHWA | Natural Hazards, Risk, and the Resilience of Transportation Infrastructure | Corvallis, OR

11/3/2016 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | Frank Pita, PE, GE, F.ASCE, Frank W. Pita Consulting, LLC | An Introduction to Geotechnical Railroad Track Bed Stabilization Engineering using a Multi-Year Case Study | Corvallis, OR

11/2/2016 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Arash Khosravifar, Assistant Prof., Portland State Univ. | Effects of Long-Duration Motions on Inelastic Demands of Bridge Pile Foundations Subjected to Combined Inertia and Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading | Lake Oswego, OR

10/21/2016 - Short Course | Dimitrios Konstantakos, PE, Deep Excavation, LLC | Deep Excavations | Portland, OR

10/13-15/2016 - Conference | GBA Fall Conference | Seattle, WA

10/6/2016 - OSU Geotechnical Lecture Series | Dr. Tom O'Rourke, PE, Professor, Cornell Univ. | Terzaghi Lecture: Ground Deformation Effects on Subsurface Pipelines and Infrastructure Systems | Corvallis, OR

10/5/2016 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Richard Smith, PE, McMillen Jacobs Associates | Client-Focused Contract Negotiations | Lake Oswego, OR

9/29/2016 - Oregon Geo-Institute Chapter | Dr. John McCartney, PE, Associate Prof., Univ. of California, San Diego | Seismic Response of MSE Bridge Abutments | Portland, OR

9/7/2016 - Oregon Geotechnical Group Dinner Meeting | Dr. Sri Rajah, PE, GE, F.ASCE, CDM Smith | Nexus of Pipeline Design and Geotechnical Engineering | Lake Oswego, OR