UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 15 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Kaleigh Yost, assistant professor of geotechnical engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, will give the talk "Improving liquefaction modeling for partially saturated soils under fluctuating groundwater conditions" at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept.18, in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building at University Park. The talk will able be available via Zoom.
The event is part of a fall seminar series hosted by TRAnscendIng Natural hazards forecasting (TRAIN). The talk is free and open to the public.
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