Time History Evaluation of Piezometers for Seepage Characterization of Levees and Earth Dams: Instructor

Richard Olsen
TrustDirt.com
Consultant

Dr. Olsen is an expert in evaluating CPT data, seepage failure for dams (and levees), and rapid field assessment of large landslides.
He has been a private geotechnical consultant for four years since his retirement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Headquarters (HQ). At the beginning of his career, he worked at FUGRO, HLA, and Dames & Moore. He was also a senior research geotechnical engineer at the USACE ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory for thirty years. While at USACE HQ, he was the national senior policy advisor and a technical lead for geotechnical engineering.