The U.S. Permafrost Association (USPA) is pleased to announce the USPA Technical Training Webinar Series. The webinars are offered on Zoom. Each webinar is 1 hour long, including a 50-min lecture and 10-min Q&A. Certificate of Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be provided to participants who request it after each webinar. The webinars are free for USPA members and all students. For non-USPA members who are not students, the registration fee is $20 for each webinar.
The USPA webinar series is sponsored by Arctic Foundations, Inc., Shannon & Wilson, PND Engineers, Inc., Geo-Watersheds Scientific, beadedstream, and Katherine Schexneider.
Registration and fees for each webinar
• USPA members: FREE
• Non-USPA students: FREE
• Employees of USPA corporate members: FREE
• Non-USPA members (non-student): $20
• Instructors to volunteer their time
• Recorded webinar freely available to all USPA members
Registration link: https://uspa.memberclicks.net/webinar5
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2024. 2:00 to 3:00pm ET (10:00 to 11:00am AKT)
Instructor: Dr. Marc Lebeau, Seequent Company
Content of Webinar: This webinar reviews the basics of conductive and convective heat transfer in soils with soil-water phase change, introduces the basic concepts of the finite element method, and provides insight into the use of the software using several benchmark problems. It also presents various use cases that illustrate the capabilities of the software.
Brief Introduction of Instructors: Dr. Marc Lebeau is a Research Scientist with the GeoStudio engineering team at Seequent. He received a M.Sc.A. in Geotechnical Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal and a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Laval University. His research combines physical chemistry, hydrogeology and geotechnical engineering to study coupled transport phenomenon and mechanical response of engineered structures. Marc’s current research interests include the effect of thin films on unsaturated and frozen soil properties, thermal dispersion, non-Darcy flow and buoyancy-driven flows in coarse-grained soils as well as inverse modeling.
Format: The webinar is offered on Zoom. The webinar will be moderated. The seminar will be recorded and uploaded on the USPA website.