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SUMMARY:Energy Geotechnology – Enabling New Insights Into Soil Behavior 
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. J. Carlos Santamarina\, KAUST (King Abdullah University 
 of Science and Technology) Saudi Arabia\nEnergy is critical to life. The c
 oming decades will see worldwide population growth and associated economic
  development that will result in a pronounced increase in energy demand. H
 istorically\, geotechnical engineering has been crucial to projects that h
 ave sustained societal transformations. Once again\, geotechnical engineer
 ing has a central role to play in the evolving energy challenge\, from res
 ource recovery and infrastructure development\, to energy storage and wast
 e management. Examples during this lecture show that the emerging field of
  energy geotechnology drives us to reconsider the basic tenets of geotechn
 ical engineering (such as soil formation\, index properties\, and classifi
 cation)\, to extend our understanding of geomaterials (at high pressure an
 d temperature\, long time scales\, and large number of repetitions)\, to r
 ecognize new phenomena (most often couplings between hydraulic\, thermal\,
  chemical\, biological and mechanical processes\, and various forms of loc
 alization)\, and to advance technological innovations for characterization
  (in situ\, sampling\, and laboratory) and monitoring.\nBio: J. Carlos San
 tamarina graduated from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Ingeniero Civil)
 \, and completed graduate studies at the University of Maryland (MSc) and 
 Purdue University (Ph.D.). He taught at NYU-Polytechnic\, the University o
 f Waterloo (Canada)\, and Georgia Tech. Two books and 300 publications sum
 marize salient concepts and research results. His former students are facu
 lty members at more than two dozen universities\, researchers at national 
 laboratories\, or practicing engineers at leading organizations worldwide.
  Dr. Santamarina is a frequent keynote speaker at international events\, a
  member of both Argentinean National Academies (Sciences and Engineering)\
 , and has participated in several Committees at the USA National Academies
 . He is a recipient of the ASTM Hogentogler Award\; he was the 2012 Britis
 h Geotechnical Association Touring Lecturer\; and he delivered the 50th Te
 rzaghi Lecture in 2014.
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