Proceedings of GeoCongress 2008, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 9-12, 2008. Sponsored by Geo-Institute of ASCE. This Geotechnical Special Publication contains 136 papers covering mechanical and chemical soil behavior, testing, and modeling. Topics include: innovations on subsurface characterization and monitoring; characterization of rocks, problematic soils and waste materials; sensor technologies; recent developments in numerical and computational geotechnics; emerging technologies; fate and transport modeling; uncertainty modeling; and micro- and environmental geomechanics.

Proceedings of GeoCongress 2008, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 9-12, 2008. Sponsored by Geo-Institute of ASCE. This Geotechnical Special Publication contains 148 papers on the challenges of sustainability in geotechnics. Topics include: education; sustainable materials and infrastructure; risk-based analysis and design; and impacts and mitigation of geohazards.