Dr. Charles D. Shackelford is Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. He has 35 years of experience pertaining to the geoenvironmental engineering aspects of waste management and environmental remediation, is a licensed professional (civil) engineer (P.E.) in California and Colorado and has served as an expert on waste disposal issues on numerous occasions for private companies and federal and international agencies (e.g., International Atomic Energy Agency). Dr. Shackelford's research is focused primarily on evaluating flow (seepage) and transport of liquids and contaminants through engineered soil and geosynthetic containment barriers used for liquid and solid waste containment.
Dr. Shackelford will start his 12-city tour in St. John’s, NL on Tuesday, May 21 for a lunch seminar and finish in Vancouver on June 6 with a dinner presentation. Times and venues are being confirmed and a full schedule will be posted soon to www.cgs.ca under ‘Upcoming Events’ and ‘Cross-Canada Lecture Tour’.
The CCLT lecture series is generously sponsored by the Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique – corporate sponsors of the spring lecture include Klohn Crippen Berger, Clifton Associates, Thurber Engineering, and BGC Engineering.
Planning is underway for a live webcast of Dr. Shackelford’s Tuesday, May 21 lecture from St. John’s on ‘Membrane Behavior and Chemico-Osmosis in Clays’. Full details will be provided in the May CGS E-news.