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1. Fully Grouted Vibrating Wire Piezometer Installations in Artesian and Karst Conditions at Mosul Dam  
2. Practical Aspects of the Use of Synthetic Aperture Radar for Dam Safety Monitoring Based on Three Years of Ground Truth  
3. Failure Emergency Response Mitigation and Engineering Geology of Guajataca Dam Spillway Puerto Rico  
4. Guajataca Dam: Spillway Failure Emergency Response and Spillway Failure Assessment  
5. Interim Risk Reduction Measures (IRRM) for Guajataca Dam Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (2017)

Gregg Batchelder Adams

Lead Civil Engineer

US Army Corps of Engineers

Georgette Hlepas, PhD, PE

National Geotechnical Policy Advisor

US Army Corps of Engineers

Dr. Georgette Hlepas is the National Geotechnical Policy Advisor for the US Army Corps of Engineers and is located in the Headquarters office in DC.  She is also the lead for the USACE Instrumentation and Performance Monitoring Community of Practice and the Chairperson for the USSD Monitoring of Dams and Their Foundations Committee.  She has ~13 years of experience in geotechnical engineering and instrumentation with USACE and has been an instructor of several instrumentation courses.  She has a PhD in Civil and Materials Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois.

Sam Hutsell

Chief, Dams & Levees Section

US Army Corps of Engineers

Todd Loar

Senior Geological Engineer

USACE-RMC

William Empson

Senior Dam and Levee Safety Risk Advisor Risk Management Center Institute for Water Resources

USACE

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