Dallas Little of Texas A&M University delivered the 2016 Carl L. Monismith Lecture at Geo-Chicago in Chicago, IL on August 17, 2016. His lecture was titled "Sustainable Pavements: The Impact of Geo-Mechanics and Geo-Chemistry." The ASCE Geo-Institute (G-I) has established a Lecture in recognition of Professor Carl L. Monismith's contribution to Pavement Engineering. Professor Monismith's teaching and research career in pavement technology, at the University of California, Berkeley, spans more than 50 years. Throughout this period, he has mentored numerous graduate students who have disseminated advances in pavement technology around the world. The C. L. Monismith Lecture will be awarded annually for outstanding research contributions in Pavement Engineering. Dallas Little’s research iresearch during his academic career and has chaired the doctoral committees of a number of nationally and internationally prominent leaders in academia. Little has been a senior research fellow at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, where he was the first researcher to hold that position. He is a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), one of about 200 to hold that rank out of over 150,000 members. Little has published over 230 refereed journal publications, over 80 refereed proceedings, has contributed to five books and has given over 420 invited lectures. He has served on many advisory and executive committees and remains a widely sought-after consultant and expert witness on projects related to infrastructure performance and forensic studies. He is the Snead Chair Professor and Regents Professor, and University Professor of the Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M. He earned a BCSE in civil engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, an MS in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a PhD in civil engineering from Texas A&M. To learn more about the Monismith Award and Lecture, visit https://www.asce.org/career-growth/awards-and-honors/carl-l-monismith-lecture-on-pavement-engineering. Want to learn more about the Geo-Institute? We're a technical society with about 12,000 members - mostly geotechnical engineers and geologists. Visit geoinstitute.org to get to know us! #geotechnicalengineering #geotech #civilengineering #monismithlecture Show more