Geoenvironmental Engineering at Georgia Tech

RECENT CAREER
Georgia Institute of Technology Associate Professor School of Civil and Environmental Engineering	2004--present
University of Virginia Associate Professor Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering	2003--2004 1997-2003
Georgia Institute of Technology Graduate Reseach and Teaching Assistant School of Civil and Environmental Engineering	1992-1997
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Geotechnical) Minor: Aqueous Geochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology	September 1997
M.S., Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology	June 1996
M.S., Civil Engineering (Geotechnical) Georgia Institute of Technology	March 1996
B., Civil Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology	December 1990
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Registered Professional Engineer, 032847	January, 1999
Commonwealth of Virginia
HONORS AND AWARDS
Class of 1969 Teaching Scholar Georgia Tech	2009-2010
Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow Georgia Tech	2005-2006
Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award University of Virginia	2001
CAREER Development Award National Science Foundation	2000-2004
Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Georgia Tech	2000
Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award American Society of Civil Engineers	2000
Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award American Society of Civil Engineers	2000
University Teaching Fellow University of Virginia	1999-2000
David Harrison III Award for Undergraduate Advising University of Virginia	1999
Graduate Traineeship National Science Foundation	1995-1997
Jean-Lou Chameau Student Research Excellence Award Georgia Tech	1996
George F. Sowers Distinguished Graduate Student Award Georgia Tech	1995
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Georgia Tech	1994
Blount Foundation Scholarship Georgia Tech	1985-1989
UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
*At Georgia Tech (partial)* Graduate Coordinator, Geosystems Group, CEE (2005-present) Chair, Graduate Committee, CEE (2006-present) Member, Academic Senate and General Faculty Assembly (2007-2010) Member, Student Academic and Financial Affairs Committee
Professional Service (partial) President, United States Universities Council and Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER) (2005-2007) Member/Past Chair, ASCE GeoInstitute Geoenvironmental Engineering Committee (1998-present) Member, Committee to Assess Performance of Surface and Subsurface Engineered Barriers, National Research Council (2005-2007) Member, Standing Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering, National Research Council (2002-2005)
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters/Edited Books/NRC Reports Deformational Characteristics of Geomaterials (2008). Proceedings of IS Atlanta – Fourth International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, September 22-24, Atlanta, Georgia; S.E. Burns, PW. Mayne, and J.C. Santamarina, eds., 944 pp. Physicochemical Groundwater Remediation (2001), J.A. Smith and S.E. Burns, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, 366 pp. Frost, J.D. and Burns, S.E. (1994). "In-Situ Subsurface Characterization", Chapter 26 in The Civil Engineering Handbook, W.F. Chen, ed., CRC Press Inc., Florida, pp. 903-920. Mitchell, J.K. et al. (2007). Assessment of the Performance of Engineered Waste Containment Barriers, National Research Council, National Academies Press, Washington D.C. Refereed Archival Journal Publications B. BaTe and Burns, S.E. (2009). Effect of Total Organic Carbon Content and Structure on the Electrokinetic Behavior of Organoclay Suspensions, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, in press. Cutts, R.E. and Burns, S.E. (2009). Evolution of Surface Area-to-Volume Ratio for a Water Meniscus Evaporating Between Contacting Silica Spheres, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, in press. Ross, W.A., Burns, S.E., Wu, P.Y., and Jared, D.M. (2009). RFID Tracking Technology Applied to Testing of Transportation Construction Materials, Transportation Research Record, No. 2098, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 3-12. Palomino, A.M., Burns, S.E., and Santamarina, J.C. (2008). Mixtures of Fine-Grained Minerals – Kaolinite and Carbonate Grains, Clays and Clay Minerals, Volume 56, Number 6, pp. 599-611. Fuller, M., Smith, J.A., and Burns, S.E. (2007). Sorption of Nonionic Organic Solutes from Water to Tetraalkylammonium Bentonites: Mechanistic Considerations and Application of the Polanyi-Manes Potential Theory, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2007.04.010. Nefso, E.K. and Burns, S.E. (2007). Comparison of the Equilibrium Sorption of Five Organic Compounds to HDPE, PP, and PVC Geomembranes, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, doi:10.1016/j.geotexmem.2006.12.002. Davis, K.A.,Warr, L.S., Burns, S.E. and Hoppe, E.J. (2007). Physical and Chemical Behavior of Four Cement-Treated Aggregates, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 10, pp. 891-897. Burns, S.E., Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Smith, J.A., and Redding, A.R. (2006). Coupled Mechanical and Chemical Behavior of Bentonite Engineered with a Controlled Organic Phase, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 132, No. 11, November. Upson, R.T. and Burns, S.E. (2006). Sorption of Nitroaromatic Compounds to Synthesized Organoclays, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 297, No. 1, pp. 70-76. Lorenzetti, R.J., Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Burns, S.E., and Smith, J.A. (2005). Hydraulic Conductivities and Effective Diffusion Coefficients of Geosynthetic Clay Liners with Organobentonite Amendments, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 385-400. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Smith, J.A., Burns, S.E., and Rabideau, A.R. (2005). Evaluation of the sorptive capacity and permeability of granular activated carbon, shale and two organoclays for use as sorptive amendments in clay landfill liners. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 131, No. 7. Nefso, E.K., Burns, S.E., and McGrath, C.J. (2005). "Anaerobic Degradation Kinetics of TNT in the Presence of Six Mineral Surfaces and Ferrous Iron", Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier Science, B123, 1-3, 79-88. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Burns, S.E. and Smith, J.A. (2003). Sorption of Nonionic Organic Solutes to Two Organobentonites as a Function of Organic-Carbon Content, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 266(2): 251-258. Smith, J.A., Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., and Burns, S.E. (2003), "Sorption and Permeability of Gasoline Hydrocarbons in Organobentonite Porous Media", Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier Science, Vol. B96, p. 91-97. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (2002). "Analytical Cavity Expansion-Critical State Model for Piezocone Dissipation in Fine-Grained Soils", Soils and Foundations, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 131-137. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (2002). "Interpretation of Seismic Piezocone Results for the Estimation of Hydraulic Conductivity in Clays", Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3. Redding, A.Z., Burns, S.E., Upson, R.T., and Anderson, E.F. (2002), "Organoclay Sorption of Benzene as a Function of Total Organic Carbon Content", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 250, pp. 261-264. Burns, S.E. and Zhang, M. (2001). "Effects of System Parameters on the Physical Characteristics of Bubbles Produced through Air Sparging", Environmental Science and Technology, American Chemical Society, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 204-208. Soule, N.M. and Burns, S.E. (2001). "Effects of Organic Cation Structure on Behavior of Organobentonites ", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 127, No. 4, pp. 363-370. Mayne, P.W., Burns, S.E., and Circeo, L.J. (2000). "Plasma Magmavication of Geomaterials by Nontransferred Arc", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 126, No. 5, 387-396. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (1999). "Pore Pressure Dissipation Behavior Surrounding Driven Piles and Cone Penetrometers", Transportation Research Record, 1675, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 17-23. Burns, S.E. and Zhang, M. (1999). "Digital Image Analysis to Assess Microbubble Behavior in Porous Media", Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 43-48. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (1998). "Monotonic and Dilatory Pore Pressure Decay During Piezocone Tests in Clay", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 35, No. 6, 1063-1073. Burns, S.E., Yiacoumi, S., and Tsouris, C. (1997). "Microbubble Generation for Environmental and Industrial Separations", Separation and Purification Technology, Vol. 11, pp. 221-232. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (1996). "Small- and High-Strain Measurements of In-Situ Soil Properties Using the Seismic Cone Penetrometer", Transportation Research Record, 1548, National Research Council, Washington, DC, pp. 81-88. Refereed Archival Journal Discussions Mayne, P.W., Burns, S.E., and Chen, B.S-Y. (2002). Discussion to "Undrained cavity expansion: piezocone penetration", Geotechnique, Vol. 52 (4), 307-311. Mayne, P.W. and Burns, S.E. (2001) Discussion to "An Approach to Evaluation of Field CPTU Dissipation Data in Overconsolidated Fine-grained Soils", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 37, No.6, 1395-1397. Reports Burns, S.E. and Cline, M.J. (2003). Evaluation of Wick Drain Performance in Virginia Soils, Report No. 03-CR21, Virginia Transportation Research Council, 45 pp. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (1998). Penetrometers for Soil Permeability and Chemical Detection (pdf 2.9 MB), Report No. GIT-CEEGEO-98-1, Georgia Institute of Technology, 144 pp.