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Year 5 Kick-Off Briefing

6 September 2019

We Welcome

New and Returning Students

• Graduate Research Assistants and Associates
• Graduate and Undergraduate hourly workers

New and Returning Visiting Scholars Faculty and Staff

CBBG BG Objec ectives es

CBBG Objectives

• Develop bio-based or bio–inspired technologies for

sustainable and resilient infrastructure development and rehabilitation

• Establish biogeotechnics as a recognized sub-discipline
• Inspire a new, diverse generation of geo-professionals

NSF NSF / ERC Objec ectives es

ERC Mandate: “Use-inspired research”

• Engage/collaborate with industry to develop

technologies that meet industry needs

Other ERC Goals

• Facilitate Inter-disciplinary (Transdisciplinary or

Convergent) research

• Train a cadre of “ERC Graduates” schooled in

Innovation/Entrepreneurship, Diversity, Mentorship, and Team Science

• Memorialized in the MOU

NSF NSF / ERC Objec ectives es

ERC Mandate: “Use-inspired research”

• Engage/collaborate with industry to develop

technologies that meet industry needs

Other ERC Goals

• Facilitate Inter-disciplinary (Transdisciplinary or

Convergent) research

• Train a cadre of “ERC Graduates” schooled in

Innovation/Entrepreneurship, Diversity, Mentorship, and Team Science

• Memorialized in the “MOU”

The Big Pi Picture

Entering final year of initial 5-yr grant (collaborative agreement) Proposal for Years 6-10 funding goes in with annual report Year 5 Site Visit Team makes recommendation to NSF

• Site Visit October 28-30 (at ASU)

Notification by mid-year (early 2020):

• Successful: Extended for 5 more years
• Unsuccessful: One more year of funding
• Purgatory: Two or three more years with

resubmission in one or two years

The Big Pi Picture

Entering final year of initial 5-yr grant (collaborative agreement) Proposal for Years 6-10 funding goes in with annual report Year 5 Site Visit Team makes recommendation to NSF

• Site Visit October 28-30 (at ASU)

Notification by mid-year (early 2020):

• Successful: Extended for 5 more years
• Unsuccessful: One more year of funding
• Purgatory: Two or three more years with

resubmission in one or two years

The Big Pi Picture

Entering final year of initial 5-yr grant (collaborative agreement) Proposal for Years 6-10 funding goes in with annual report Year 5 Site Visit Team makes recommendation to NSF

• Site Visit October 28-30 (at ASU)

Notification by mid-year (early 2020):

• Successful: Extended for 5 more years
• Unsuccessful: One more year of funding
• Purgatory: Two or three more years with

resubmission in one or two years

Ongoing P g Prot

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MIDP

• MIDP - Toronto (last year)
• MIDP – Portland (ongoing)

EICP

• Bio-cemented columns
• Dust control
• Dune stabilization

Self-anchoring CPT Removal of Phosphate and Nitrogen Robotic tunneling

• Peristalic tunneler
• “Razor clam” tunneler

Dune stabilization in NHERI@OSU Flume

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e / Field S Scale e Work i in Developmen ent

MICP: Western US test site MICP/MIDP: British Columbia: Fraser River area EICP

• Netherlands (Foundation excavation stabilization)
• Bureau of Reclamation: Salton Sea dust control

Rainfall Simulator / Surface Water Erosion Electro-Kinetic – assisted Bio-cementation

• GOALI project with Geosyntec

Laterally expansive pile system Self-anchoring CPT Root-inspired anchors “Earthworm” inspired tunneller “Eddy Current” Landfill Monitoring

Indu dustry E Engagement

Industry engagement

• Toronto MIDP: Groundwater Technologies (NV)
• Portland MID: Geosyntec
• Western US MICP – Hayward Baker and Geosyntec
• British Columbia MICP/MIDP – Municipality of Richmond, Golder
• Dust Control: Salt River Landfill, Republic Industries, Freeport

McMoRan, Bureau of Reclamation

• Removal of Phosphorus and Nitrogen: Geologic/Kunkel Assoc.
• Treating mine-impacted waters: Freeport McMoRan

Form rmal C Collaborations

NEHRI@UTEXAS (Ken Stokoe): MIDP in Toronto, MID in Portland Portland State University: MID NEHRI@OSU (Wave Basin): Dune stabilization, with Matt Evans (OSU) and Brina Montoya (NCSU) Sharjah University (UAE): EICP for Dust Control Universite Grenoble Alpes: Peristaltic motion iCRAG (University College, Dublin) and EEM (Queens U., Belfast)

• Pending C-2-C proposal on biocementation of

carbonate bearing materials

Other r Collaborations

Other Collaborations

• Ben Gurion University of the Negev
• Delft Technical University
• Chuo University
• Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
• Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology
• Strathclyde University
• Toyama Prefecture University
• University of Central Lancashire
• University of Dundee
• University of Waterloo

Disseminati tion

First International Symposium on Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics – September 2018

• 30 papers, 6 keynote addresses, 80 participants

CBBG Mid-Year Meeting

• Hosted 11 PUIs (Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions)

NSF Workshop on Bio-Inspired Geotechnics – May 2019

• 60 participants, 40 posters, 10 countries

2020 ASCE GeoCongress – February 2020

• 45 abstracts received for mini-symposium
• 8 hour “almost free” Biogeotechnics short course

for new investigators

Year 5 r 5 Objectives

Strengthen Student Engagement program

• Facilitate SLC engagement with Industry and Community Outreach

Continue field deployment and prototype development

• Increase collaboration with Industry partners

Increase dissemination of information

• More refereed journal articles

Broaden research portfolio

• Iron precipitation
• Bio-inspired scour protection
• Mollusk-inspired rock drilling

Step up curriculum development Increase international collaboration

• Irish partners (iCRAG, EEM)
• EU Center for BIOGEOS (BIO-mediated

GEO-material Strengthening)

Ye Years 6 6-10 S 10 Strategic P c Plan

Expand focus to abiotic natural processes

• Consider all natural processes in the bio-sphere

Wean CBBG off of NSF ERC support

• Other NSF-sponsored work
• “Signals in the Soil”
• “Mentoring Effectiveness”
• Other government agencies
• NASA: (“Bio-bricks on Mars”)
• DOE/DOD, US EPA
• Increased industrial support
• Short courses, webinars, summer program

Other ideas?

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