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This technical session will focus on oral presentations that showcase a broad spectrum of practical examples illustrating how a range of geoscientific methods were creatively and innovatively applied to evaluate potential problems, collect and evaluate data pertinent to those problems, propose solutions to resolve them, and communicate information in a manner that enables all interested stakeholders to understand the geoscientific basis for the proposed solutions.

Conveners: Gerry L. Stirewalt and David F. Fenster

Speaker Bios

Time              Speaker                 Title

9:00-9:20       Gerry Stirewalt        Introduction to the Session on Applied Geoscience Methods for Problem Solving

9:20-9:40       Isaac Pope              Reaching New Heights: The Cascade Volcanoes as Exemplary Laboratories for Applied Geoscience

9:40-10:00     James Arthurs         Post-eruption Transportation Repairs at Hawai’ian Volcanoes National Park

10:00-10:20   Jenise Thompson     The Reactor and the Volcano: A Risk-Informed Approach of the NRC to Assess Volcanic Hazards at New Nuclear Reactor Sites                                                       

10:20-10:40   Patrick Pringle         Tree-Ring Analysis (Dendrochronology), a Tool for Dating of Subfossil Forests—Victim Tree Examples from Mount Rainier lahars and the Bonneville Landslide          

10:40-11:00   Leon van Paassen    Microbially Induced Desaturation (MID), a New Method to Mitigate Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction      

11:00-11:20   Iuliia Tcibulnikova    Permafrost Degradation as Geological Engineering Challenge in Alaska: Application of Remote Sensing Techniques

11:20-11:40   E. Morley Beckman   Finding the American Tunnel: Using Directional Drilling Techniques to Intersect Abandoned Mine Workings

11:40-12:00   Timothy Blackwood   Addressing Geologic Hazards in the Newell Creek Canyon Natural Area through Avoidance, Accommodation, and Mitigation

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