Slate Geotechnical Consultants

Hello members and friends of AEG! Please join us on Tuesday, March 25th from 6-8pm for the AEG National President, Renee Wawczak's talk "Using High Resolution Site Characterization to Expedite Environmental Investigations." The first hour will be a social hour with dinner (Mexican...) and beverages, and the second hour will be the talk. Slate Geotechnical Consultants has been kind enough to host this talk at their office on College Ave in Oakland. Please visit our website and RSVP with the link on the homepage here:

Happy Pi Day from Slate! Today, we celebrate the infinite possibilities of innovation, just like the never-ending digits of π (3.14159…). Whether you're crunching numbers, solving complex problems, or just enjoying a slice of your favorite pie, Pi Day is a great reminder that curiosity and precision drive progress! Stay irrational, stay curious! ??

Congratulations to Slate Staff Engineer Dr. Michael Yust, whose 2023 paper Near-Surface 2D Imaging via FWI of DAS Data: An Examination on the Impacts of FWI Starting Model based on his dissertation work recently won Geosciences Best Paper Award for that year!? https://lnkd.in/g4SqcZH6?

Happy International Women's Day! Today, we celebrate the remarkable achievements of women everywhere—especially those who continue to shape and drive our industry forward. As a proud women-owned company, Slate remains committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have the opportunity to grow, lead, and thrive. We are proud to support and empower the talented women on our team and beyond, whose innovation and dedication continue to drive progress. We are incredibly grateful for the brilliant engineers, geologists, and seismologists on our team who uplift and support one another, making a lasting impact in our field. Your dedication and innovation inspire us all. Here's to the women who lead, break barriers, and create change. We celebrate you today and always!

This Friday, we hosted our 18th Round Table event, welcoming guests from all across industry to learn about our research and forge connections! As with our previous events, our members shared poster presentations and gave several talks to give our guests an in-depth look into the current progress for our projects at UC Davis. Seven of our members gave incredible presentations: - Laura Luna: Numerical Modeling of Cemented Sands: Element and System Level Response - Hyeon Jung Kim: Interface Shear Behavior of Snakeskin-Inspired Surfaces and Piles in Clay - Soomin Ham : Hypergravity Modeling of Permafrost Thawing Process - Hanyu Deng: Investigation of Approaches to Consider Asphalt Mix Fatigue Properties in Routine Practices - Jakob Scheel: Modeling Fluid-Solid Interaction During Mafic Magmatic Enclave Disintegration - Katherine Cheng: Explainable Machine Leaning Models for Soilcrete UCS Predictions - Dora de Melo: Consideration of Environmental Impacts in Probabilistic Design of Driven Piles Our panel discussion this year was on a very hot topic: machine learning’s place in industry and practice.?Panelists Katherine Cheng, Maziar Mivehchi, Tom Westover, PE, MBA, Martin Walker, Steve Verigin, Adam B. Price, Christopher Hunt, and Nathaniel Wagner broke into two groups to debate and discuss a?variety of topics, such as how machine learning will / should be used in industry, how industry would change due to the adoption of machine learning, and what this change might mean for working engineers. The audience also contributed greatly to the conversation, sharing their own insights about how they see machine learning currently being used in practice, and how it may be used in the future. Special thanks to all our panelists, and a big thank you to Alejandro Martinez for moderating this engaging conversation! Also, let’s give a big congratulations to this year’s award winners: - GEI Consultants, Inc. Best Oral Presentation : Katherine Cheng - GEI Consultants, Inc. Best Poster Presentations – Dora de Melo, Soomin Ham, Katherine Cheng - Fugro Graduate Fellowship : Damon Nguyen - Pat Lucia Geotechnical Engineering Scholarship : Maziar Mivehchi - Idriss Award for Excellence in Geotechnical Engineering : Dora de Melo - Professor “CK” Shen Chih-Kang Shen Endowed Fellowship: Jose Luis Caisapanta #UCDavisGeotechnics

Can’t wait to join the conversation and meet fellow professionals. Hope to see you there!

We’re excited to have Nathaniel Wagner, Katrina Watkins, PE, GE, and Barry Zheng representing Slate at the UC Davis Roundtable Discussion this Friday, 2/21! Looking forward to insightful conversations. If you're attending, be sure to come say hello!

Happy Valentine's Day from Slate! We hope you have a gneiss day, filled with lava and appreciation!

We are pleased to announce that Plant has been awarded the contract to seismically retrofit the Crestmont Building at Piedmont Gardens, a nonprofit senior living community in Oakland! The scope of work includes the voluntary seismic retrofit of the residential tower and a facelift to its lobby that will create a café and add restrooms.? ? Though we have delivered dozens of nonprofit projects, this will be Plant’s first partnership with owner HumanGood. Other team members include project manager Beacon Development Group, Degenkolb Engineers, architect Boulder Associates, Slate Geotechnical Consultants, and hygienist Van Brunt Associates. Construction began this week with an anticipated completion date of November of 2025. Congratulations to all involved in this winning effort, including Vice President/Construction Manager Don Libbey, Senior Project Manager Matin Hekmat, P.E., Superintendent Shaun Harris, and a whole host of others: Greg Bonderud, Yadvindra Yoginish Luktuke, LEED GA, Mike Paves, Aaron Betschart, Gerardo Vasquez, Xiaqing (Sia) Wang, EIT, LEED GA, James Elliott, Ryan Alvarez, Peter Lucchese, Ryan Chilton, and many more who helped bring this project to the start line.

We wish you a joyful holiday season and a New Year full of opportunity!