The winter 2011 issue of the Deep Foundations Institute magazine profiles DBA founder Dan Brown, a very prominent figure in the geotechnical industry and one of the most well known experts in deep foundations. The title of the article “Dan Brown: Brilliant Engineer, Great Mentor, Down to Earth Guy” apparently came from John Wolosick of Hayward Baker, a motorcycle buddy of Brown’s. [Source: Dan Brown and Associates, Inc.. Image: Dan Brown and Associates]
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UC Berkley GeoEngineering Lectures on YouTube
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UC Berkley has a bunch of lectures online, including three geoengineering themed ones. It appears that they were all from lectures given as a part of the 27th Annual GeoEngineering Distinguished Lecture Series on May 8, 2009. So if you have an hour plus to kill per lecture (and I haven’t yet), you can check out one of the following.