BIO-SOILS WORKSHOP

Overview | Motivation | Logistics | Agenda | Organizers | Letter to participants

ORGANIZERS

The workshop organizing committee includes faculty members from the University of California Davis and the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US as well as Cambridge University and the University of Sheffield and the Rothamstead Research Station in England. The lead workshop organizers from the US and UK are Professors Jason DeJong and Kenichi Soga, respectively.

The US workshop chairperson:

Jason DeJong
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
USA
Telephone:  001-530-754-8995
Fax: 001-530-752-7872
Email: jdejong@ucdavis.edu

The UK workshop chairperson:

Kenichi Soga
Engineering Department
Cambridge University
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1PZ
England
Telephone:  +44-1223-332713
Fax:  +44-1223-339713
Email: ks@eng.cam.ac.uk

The US workshop co- chairperson:

Klaus Nüsslein
Department of Microbiology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9298
Telephone:  001-413-545-1356
Fax: 001-413-545-1578
Email: nusslein@microbio.umass.edu

The UK workshop co- chairpersons are:

Steven A. Banwart
Dept of Civil & Structural Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
Telephone: +44-114-222-5742
Fax: +44-114-222-5701
Email: S.A.Banwart@sheffield.ac.uk

Richard Whalley
Rothamsted Research
Harpenden, West Common
Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ UK
Telephone :  +44-1582-763133
Fax : +44-1582-469036
Email: richard.whalley@bbsrc.ac.uk

The US workshop advisors:

James K. Mitchell
Virginia Institute of Technology
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Carlos Santamarina
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0355

The workshop is being sponsored by the National Science Foundation (USA) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK). Rick Fragazy, Program Director of Geomechanical and Geotechnical Systems and of GeoEnvironmental Engineering and GeoHazards Mitigation is the lead sponsor at NSF.

NSF Lead Program Director:

Richard Fragaszy
Program Director
Geomechanical and Geotechnical Systems,
GeoEnvironmental Engineering and GeoHazards Mitigation
Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA USA
Phone: (703) 292-7011
E-mail: rfragaszy@nsf.gov

EPSRC Lead Program Director:

Claire Tansley
Program Manager
Ground Engineering, Contaminated Land and Waste Management
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1ET, UK
Phone: +44-1793-444237
E-mail: Claire.Tansley@epsrc.ac.uk

NSF Collaborative Program Directors:

Enriqueta Barrera
Program Director
Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry
Division of Earth Sciences
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA USA
Phone: (703) 292-8551
E-mail: ebarrera@nsf.gov

Patrick L. Brezonik
Program Director
Environmental Engineering
Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA USA
Phone: (703) 292-8320
E-mail: pbrezoni@nsf.go