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 otot otype e / Field Scale W e Work 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
Prot otot otype 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 S trengthening)
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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