Joseph Scalia IV
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Site Director, Tailings Center
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joseph.scalia at colostate.edu
1372 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA
Bio
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University specializing in geoenvironmental engineering. I am the CSU Site Director of the Tailings Center and a Principal Investigator of the University Consortium for Field Focused Groundwater Research.
I am an associate editor of the Journal of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering and Geotextiles & Geomembranes, and on the editorial board of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal and Geosynthetics International.
Prior to joining CSU, I was a Senior Associate in the Environmental & Earth Sciences Practice at Exponent in Bellevue WA and Natick, MA.
Ph.D., Geological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S., Geological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
Research Interests
Tailings & mine waste - covers and liners, filtered tailings, commingled tailings, unsaturated behavior, coupled hydrogeochemical processes, sensor based monitoring, and education
Groundwater stewardship - contaminant transport, sensor based monitoring, barrier systems
Geo-hydrotechnics - canal seepage reduction
Terramechanics - unsaturated soil strength from remote sensing