Geotechnical Frontiers 2025 occurs every six years and is the merging of the Geosynthetics Conference and the annual Geo-Congress replacing both events in 2025. This popular event is where the geotechnical, civil and geo-professional communities unite to share developments in geotechnical engineering and technologies. To prepare for the 2025 conference in Lousiville, we bring you a series of live streams featuring case histories from the Ohio River Valley region! Our second in the series will be presented Thursday, November 21, at 2pm ET. Mike Kalinski of the Unviersity of Kentucky will present Ohio River Valley seismicity. Seismic hazard assessment involves calculation of the response of a layered soil/rock site to earthquake strong ground motion. The Ohio River valley is in close proxisign safe structures and systems. The presentation will cover the current state of practice for seismic hazard assessment and site response analysis to provide guidance for performing similar investigations at typical sites in the Ohio River Valley. Michael E. Kalinski has over 40 years of experience in the geosciences and education field as a geologist, geophysicist, engineer and professor. Kalinski earned his B.Sc. in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1985. From 1986 to 1991, he worked as an exploration geophysicist for Tenneco Oil in Lafayette, Louisiana and Shell Oil in Houston, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin from 1992 until 1998, where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering. After earning his Ph.D., he spent one year at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute in Oslo as a research fellow and two years with GeoSyntec Consultants in Huntington Beach, California as an engineering geophysicist and geotechnical engineer. Kalinski joined the University of Kentucky Department of Civil Engineering in 2002 where he currently holds the rank of Professor. His research interests include engineering geophysics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil dynamics, landfill geotechnology and humanitarian engineering. Doctor Kalinski teaches an undergraduate course in soil mechanics and graduate courses in foundation design, landfill design, geotechnical earthquake engineering and dam design. To register for FREE for this event and get reminders, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/geotechnical-frontiers-preview-2-kalinski-on-ohio-river-valley-seismicity-tickets-1038672225587 The Geo-Institute is a technical society with about 12,000 geotechnical engineers and geologists as members. Find out more or join at http://www.geoinstitute.org. #geotechnicalengineering #civilengineering #geotech #geotechnicalfrontiers Show more