The Department of Soil Science,
Warsaw University, Poland

Al. Zwirki i Wigury 93;
02-089 Warszawa PL
Tel: (+48-22) 55 405 01; fax: (+48-22) 55 40 001
e-mail: bgo@geo.uw.edu.pl

Education:

Employment information:

Subbatical:

1976 City University, London, Great-Britain, 1979 Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A., 1983 University of Waterloo, Waterloo Canada

International Membership of Professional Associations:

International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG)

Working Committee "Properties of Soils as a Function of Their Genesis", acting within the IAEG

International Positions Held:

Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal "Applied Clay Science", edited by Elsevier Science Publishers, the Netherlands,

Member of IAEG Commission C-18 :"Collapsing Soils"

Teaching Experience:

Engineering Geology; Soil Science; Physico-chemistry of clay soils (rocks); Clay Mineralogy; Applied Geology; Environmental Conservation (undergraduate, graduate and Ph. level)

7 Ph.D. Theses and 38 M.Sc. Theses have been successfully completed under my supervision, at Warsaw University, Poland

2 M. Sc. Theses have been successfully completed under my supervision at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Research Experience:

Recently, I am deeply involved in the engineering-geological study of clays, their estimation as a clay barriers, loess deposits, and in the microstructural study of different kind of soils and their practical significance.

My publications are cited in the following monographs for example:

V. Cotecchia, A. Federico, R. Trizzino: "Microtessiture di sedimenti agrillosi, Analisi delle tipologie e terminologie ed applicazioni nel campo della geotecnica",
      Geol. Appl. Idrogeol., 17/1/:34, Bari, 1982

J.E. Gillot: "Clay in Engineering Geology",
      Elsevier, Amsterdam-Oxford, 1987

Pay Kenneth: "Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits",
      Academic Press Inc., London, 1987

J.K. Mitchell: "Fundamentals of soil behavior",
      John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; New York, 1993

H. Van Olphen: "Clay Colloid Chemistry",
      John Wiley and Sons, New-York, 1977

P. Smart, K. Tovey: "Electron Microscopy of Soils Sediments: examples",
      Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981 and in many papers of the authors of international standard