The Ardaman-Wissa Lecture series is named in the honor of the late Dr. Anwar Wissa, the longtime President of Ardaman & Associates and an internationally recognized expert in geotechnical engineering. The University of Florida hosts this lecture annually. The 2024 lecture is the 12th in the series. It was titled "Turning Disaster into Knowledge" and was delivered by Jon Bray of the University of California, Berkeley in September 2024 at the University of Florida campus. Jonathan Bray is a Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence and a Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Bray’s research focuses on the seismic performance of earth structures, seismic site response, liquefaction, and ground failure and its effects on structures, earthqua Show more
