




4/3/22 – We had a fantastic time attending the CBBG Midyear Meeting at NMSU in Las Cruces, NM! Was great to have the team back together in-person again!
3/23/22 – GeoCongress 2022 in Charlotte, NC was a fantastic conference and Bruna Ribeiro gave an excellent poster presentation on the dissolution behavior of biocementation! Great work Bruna!
3/10/22 – Many thanks to the University of Southern California CEE department for hosting Dr. Mike Gomez who presented on “Bio-cementation Soil Improvement for the Mitigation of Earthquake-induced Soil Liquefaction” during their Astani CEE Department Seminar Series! It was a great event!
10/21/21 – Congratulations to Minyong Lee who just had a paper accepted in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering entitled “Effect of Light Biocementation on the Liquefaction Triggering and Post-Triggering Behavior of Loose Sands”. This can be found here: https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GT.1943-5606.0002707. Many thanks also to our collaborators, Dr. Ziotopoulou and Maya El Kortbawi, who helped tremendously!
6/11/21 – Congratulations to Sam Muchongwe for completing her M.S. thesis and a fantastic presentation! Sam, you did an incredible amount of work during a very challenging time and will be sorely missed!
2/10/21 – Many thanks to the Vancouver Geotechnical Society (http://v-g-s.ca/) for hosting Dr. Mike Gomez who presented on “Bio-cementation Soil Improvement for the Mitigation of Earthquake-induced Soil Liquefaction”. You may find a recording of the talk above!
12/17/21 – Congratulations to Bruna Ribeiro for her paper “Investigating the Dissolution Behavior of Calcium Carbonate Bio-cemented Sands” being accepted in Geocongress 2022! Looking forward to the presentation in Charlotte, NC!








12/2/19 – Minyong Lee and Bob Burdalski have both been selected to give oral presentations at GeoCongress 2020 in Minneapolis, MN! Congratulations!