Program
The 9th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, which is the premier conference series in Environmental Geotechnics under the auspices of the Technical Committee “Environmental Geotechnics” (TC215) of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), will be held on 25-28 June 2023 on the beautiful island of Crete in Greece. The conference theme “Highlighting the Role of Environmental Geotechnics in Addressing Global Challenges” will bring together international leaders in environmental geotechnics and will cover a wide range of topics that relate to advances in research and practice with a focus on safeguarding the geoenvironment, energy and resource harvesting, combating climate change and responding to natural hazards. See the conference themes below.
Conference Themes
Landfilling
Waste characterization and properties
Stability & deformation of waste
Geotechnical recycling and reuse of waste materials
Construction and demolition wastes
Dredged sediments
Other solid wastes
Contaminant Transport and Fate
Geoenvironmental Land Remediation
Degradation and attenuation
Emerging contaminants
Contaminated land and remediation technology
In-situ remediation
Off site remediation
New remediation technologies
Climate Change Impact & Mitigation
Greenhouse gas emissions and control
Geoenvironmental risk assessment
Sustainability
Risk-based site evaluation and management
Geo-Energy
Nuclear waste
CO2 sequestration
Shallow and deep energy harvesting
Methane hydrates
Underground storage facilities
Resource Mining & Extraction
Coal combustion residues
Tailings and mine wastes
Tailing ponds
Acid mine drainage
Heap leach pads
Geosynthetics for the geoenvironment
Biogeotechnics
Engineering barriers
(covers, liners, vertical barriers, permeable barriers)
Forensic environmental geotechnics
Advances in Geoenvironmental Field Characterization
Advances in Laboratory Testing & Material Characterization
Advances in Numerical Modeling
Coupled Processes in Environmental Geotechnics & Geo-Energy
Human-induced and Natural Disaster Mitigation
Case histories in environmental geotechnics and the geoenvironment
Education in Environmental Geotechnics
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
delivered to all participants by internationally renowned experts/academics.
running daily and in parallel focusing on specific research fields
covering hot topics of Environmental Geotechnics (including theme talks by distinguished lecturers, round-table discussions and paper presentations). The 9ICEG is welcoming the submission of proposals or Special Sessions.
PLENARY LECTURES
PROF. LALOUI LYESSE
EPFL, Switzerland
INVITED LECTURES
ASSOC. PROF. ANDREA DOMINIJANNI
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
SPECIAL SESSIONS
EMERGING CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERN: OCCURRENCE, FATE, MIGRATION AND REMEDIATION
Organizers
Dr. Majid Sedighi, The University of Manchester, UK
Prof. Malek Bouazza, Monash University, Australia
The session aims to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss the geo-environmental aspects of emerging contaminants, including identification methods, site investigations, engineering solutions for tackling and remediation techniques, and assessing the transport and fate of emerging contaminants. Learn more
CHARACTERISATION, REMEDIATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CONTAMINATED SITES AND WASTE MATERIALS
Organizers
Prof. Evan K. Paleologos, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
Prof. Devendra N. Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Prof. Chao-Sheng Tang, Nanjing University, China
Prof. Yan Jun Du, Southeast University, China
Prof. Federica Cotecchia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Assoc. Prof. Claudia Vitone, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
This session will mainly focus on: i) multidisciplinary and multiscale characterisation of contaminated sites aimed to investigate the current state of the system and find experimental evidence of bio-chemo-mechanical coupling processes [..] Learn more
CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF ENHANCED (POLYMERIZED) BENTONITES FOR CHEMICAL CONTAINMENT BARRIERS
Organizer
Prof. Charles Shackelford, Colorado State University, USA
The topic of this discussion session is and has been an active area of research for about a decade now, but there are still several remaining outstanding issues and some controversy on the relevant mechanisms controlling hydraulic behavior and polymer retention/elution. Learn more
ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING AND WASTE: GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
Organizers
Assoc. Prof. Joan M. Larrahondo, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Sebastián Quintero Olaya, The University of Queensland, Australia
This session aims to foster valuable discussions regarding the engineering, environmental, economic, and/or social impacts induced by ASM processes and waste. The session’s papers and presentations are expected to address geotechnical and geoenvironmental aspects of ASM and associated mining waste including [..] Learn more
IN-SITU REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR ORGANICS CONTAMINATED SITES
Organizer
Prof. Liming Hu, Tsinghua University, China
This session aims to investigate the characteristics of organic contaminated sites and to explore the method of efficient remediation technologies. New consensus and solutions to solve problem of organic pollution are expected to be obtained. Learn more
WILDFIRES, GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS
Organizers
Prof. Arvin Farid, Boise State University, USA
Assoc. Prof. Idil D. Akin, North Carolina State University, USA
This technical session will focus on various geotechnical and geoenvironmental implications of wildfires, including wildfire impacts on the soil environment and properties, disasters caused by these impacts, ways to mitigate those, and restoration of soil to its original conditions. Learn more
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNICS EDUCATION – HAND DOWN CHOICE MORSELS OF YOUR TEACHING MATERIALS!
Organizer
Assoc. Prof. Marina Pantazidou, NTUA, Greece
This Special Session on Education aims to facilitate exchanges of teaching materials and practices. In particular, creators of any kind of educational material about which they feel proud about are encouraged to submit small samples – choice morsels of their work and to highlight their special features. Learn more
ADVANCES IN GEOSYNTHETICS FOR WASTE CONTAINMENT APPLICATIONS
Organizers
Asst. Prof. Kuo Tian, George Mason University, Virginia
Dr. Nazli Yesiller, California Polytechnic State Univ., USA
Prof. James Hanson, California Polytechnic State Univ., USA
Geosynthetic materials play an important role in the design and construction of waste containment systems. The session will focus on durability, performance, and sustainability advancements in geosynthetic materials [..] Learn more
Bright Sparks Lectures Award
The Young Member Presidential Group (YMPG) and ISSMGE invite all ISSMGE member societies to nominate their most promising young geotechnical engineers as candidates to speak at a plenary session at the 9th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics. Recipients will be invited to present a keynote lecture as the recipient of the ISSMGE Bright Spark Lecture Award and write an associated paper which will be included in the conference proceedings.
We are currently soliciting nominations for the Bright Sparks Lecture Award. Background information for the award can be found in the ISSGME website: https://www.issmge.org/the-society/awards/bright-spark-lecture-award
Requirements for Nomination
1. Age 36 or under on the last day of the conference (28 June 2023)
2. On-time submission of the nomination (before 15 February 2023)
3. At least one, and no more than three, letters of support explaining the excellence of the candidate and their work
4. Curriculum vitae of the applicant including full contact information at the home institution.