Lab News
News
April 14, 2023, Student success!
PhD student, Joon Soo Park, won the 1st place in the CEE Graduate Student Research Conference. Congratulations!
April 12, 2023, Student success!
Josephine Day, a high school student who worked in my lab in the Summer 2021, Summer 2022, and Fall 2022 won 1st place at the State Science Fair and achieved the NASA Earth Systems Special Award. She will compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair in May. Congratulations!
March 26-29, 2023, Geocongress 2023
Hussein and Joon presented their posters at Geocongress 2023.
Alqrinawi, H., Lin, H., and Chen, S. (2023). “Calibrations of the innovative S3F sensor for normal stress measurements in soil.” Geocongress 2023, Los Angeles, California.
Park, J. S., Lin, H., Alqrinawi, H., and Deamer, J. E. (2023). “Mechanical properties of soils used by mud dauber wasps under varying moisture conditions.” Geocongress 2023, Los Angeles, California.
February 16, 2023, Student success!
Josephine Day, a high school student who worked in my lab in the Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023, won the first place in the Regional Science Fair. Congratulations!
January 12, 2023, Emily Chen presented at TRB 2023
Emily Chen (Baton Rouge Magnet High School student) presented "Effect of Fungal Mycelium on the Compressive Strength of Soils" at the TRB 102nd Annual Meeting AKG 90 Committee Meeting in Washington DC. She did really well presenting and answering questions!
December, 2022, Our scientific reports paper on mud dauber was referenced by Fact Animal website
August 13, 2022, High School Summer Research (HSSR) Poster Competition
Josephine Day and Addison Schempf presented their research in the HSSR poster competition. Josephine and Addison did research this summer in my lab working closely with PhD students Joon Soo Park, Hussein Alqrinawi, and myself.
April 6, 2022, Research news
My lab's research on superwood was featured at https://www.lsu.edu/eng/news/2022/04/linsuperwood.php
March 25, 2022, Student success!
Josephine Day, a high school student who worked in my lab in summer 2021 and will work again in summer 2022, won second place at the state Science Fair. Congratulations!
March 14, 2022, Outreach Activity - LSU ENGage!
My research group (Joon, Hussein, and I) participated in the ENGage event. This event is open to 6th-8th grade classes. Students toured research labs at LSU College of Engineering and participated in hands-on demonstrations led by professors and undergraduate students.
March 1, 2022, Student success!
Joon Soo Park received the USUCGER Travel Grant for attending GeoCongress 2022. Congratulations! Well deserved!
February 24, 2022, Student success!
Josephine Day, a high school student who worked in my lab in summer 2021 and will work again in summer 2022, won second place in the District Science Fair. Congratulations!
Emily Chen won fourth place in the District Science Fair. Congratulations!
February 9, 2022, New paper published
"Investigating physical and mechanical properties of nest soils used by mud dauber wasps from a geotechnical engineering perspective." in Scientific Reports.
October 21-22, 2021, Workshop on DAS
My research group participated in the workshop on DAS offered by the NHERI@UTexas. Got to see many interesting sensors and equipment.
September 11-13, 2021, GEER Hurricane Ida Reconnaissance
Drs. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Navid Jafari, and I visited the great New Orleans area to assess the geotechnical damages caused by Hurricane Ida, which is sponsored by GEER (Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance) and NSF.
July 30, 2021, High School Summer Research (HSSR) Poster Competition
Josephine Day presented her research in the HSSR poster competition. Josephine did research this summer in my lab working closely with PhD student Joon Soo Park and myself. It was great to be involved in this awesome program.
May 25, 2021, New paper published!
"Effects of Enzyme and Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation Treatments on the Response of Axially Loaded Pervious Concrete Piles." in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. Link.
April 16, 2021, Cross-USA lecture by Liz Smith (Terracon Consultant)
The talk was well-received. Thanks to Geo-Institute Graduate Student Organization (GSO) at LSU for organizing this talk!
March 25, 2021, Outreach Activity - LSU ENGage!
My research group (Joon, Hussein, and I) participated in the ENGage event. This event is open to 6th-8th grade classes. Students virtually toured research labs at LSU College of Engineering and participated in hands-on demonstrations led by professors and undergraduate students.
March 18, 2021, Research Highlight
Our research project, titled "Calculating Pile Downdrag: Experimental and Numerical Investigations," is featured in the Tran-SET Newsletter (spring 2021).
2021-Spring-Newsletter-REV.1.pdfMarch 10, 2021, Student Success
Guantao Cheng passed his Master's defense today. Congratulations!
January 22, 2021, Conference
Attended the short course on "New Technologies for Geo-Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring." Feel excited and want to use those sensing toys in the near future!
January 12. 2021, Research Award
My ORAU Powe junior faculty award is featured in the LSU news (click here).
Left to right: LSU Provost and Executive Vice President Stacia Haynie, LSU Vice President of Research & Economic Development Samuel Bentley, me, and LSU Interim President Thomas Galligan.
December 21, 2020, Research Highlight
Our research project, titled "Rapid repair of cracks on the embankment slopes using bio-cement," is featured in the Tran-SET Newsletter (winter 2020).
tran-set-newsletter_winter20ada.pdfOctober 15, 2020, Student success
Noura Saleh passed her Master's defense. Congrats!
Left to right: Dr. Lin, Noura Saleh, and Dr. Lord
September 16, 2020, New award
Dr. Lin receives the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award!
August 18, 2020, New student
Hussein Alqrinawi joined my team! It is not an easy journey for him to come to LSU during this COVID-19 pandemic! Very excited to see him here. Looking forward to working with him!
August 14, 2020, New paper published!
"Investigation of pore-scale CaCO3 distributions and their effects on stiffness and permeability of sands treated by microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP)." in Soils and Foundations.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038080620336842
May 15, 2020, New award
Dr. Lin received Michael R. Mangham Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award selected by the LSU College of Engineering. Congratulations!
(This award recognizes faculty who have been selected by their college as outstanding teachers.)
Feb. 25 to 28, 2020, Conference
Attended the Geocongress 2020! Great conference!
Hosted the Deep Foundation session and got to see my PhD advisor, Dr. Suleiman.
December 17, 2019, Fun activity
It was great to wrap up a busy semester with delicious Mediterranean food! Students and I got to have some rest before a busy winter break!
(Left to right: Noura's husband, Guantao Cheng, Dr. Lin, Joon Soo Park, Joon's wife, and Noura)
December 14, 2019, Outreach activity
My student Joon and I worked with Emily Chen (7 grade) on performing several consolidation tests on sand and clay samples. Had a lot of fun of teaching future young engineer! Geaux Tigers!
October 04, 2019, Undergraduate student
Two freshmen in Bio-Engineering, Kirby Byland and Gabrielle Abate, joined my research group. Welcome!
September 25, 2019, Teaching activity
Mr. Mike Juneau from Premier Geotech and Testing gave a talk to my CE 4300 class. His talk focused on geology of Louisiana, soil exploration, in-situ testing, and lab tests. Students loved his talk! Thank you for educating us, Mike! All the best to you and Premier Geotech and Testing!
August 16, 2019
Joon Soo Park joined my research group as a PhD student. Welcome!
August 7-9, 2019
First LaDIA Fellows Retreat. Got to see several Louisiana coastal management and restoration projects, such as IHNC lake borgne surge barrier, 17th St. pump station, Davis pond freshwater diversion (includes an air-boat trip), and Bonnet Carre Spillway. Talked to lots of colleagues and stakeholders. Thanks to Louisiana Sea Grant.
IMG_2889.MOVAugust 7, 2019
Dr. Lin has been elected into the LaDIA Fellows program. Congrats!
May 20-22, 2018
Dr. Lin attended 2018 Early Career Geotech Faculty Workshop at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
