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physicochemical phenomena in soils, environmental geotechnics, time-dependent behavior
of soils, in situ measurement of soil properties, and mitigation of ground failure risk during
earthquakes. He has authored more than 375 publications, including the graduate-level
text and geotechnical reference Fundamentals of Soil Behavior . A licensed civil engineer and
geotechnical engineer in California and professional engineer in Virginia, Dr. Mitchell has
served as chairman or officer for numerous national and international organizations. He
has chaired the NRC Geotechnical Board and three NRC study committees, and served
as a member of several other NRC study committees. He has received numerous awards,
including the Norman Medal and the Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award from the
American Society of Civil Engineers, and the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific
Achievement. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 and to the
National Academy of Sciences in 1998. Dr. Mitchell received a bachelor of civil engineer-
ing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and M.S. and doctor of science degrees in civil
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Julie E. Shemeta is the president and founder of MEQ Geo Inc., a microseismic consulting
and services company based in Denver, Colorado. She has worked on microseismic projects
in North America, Australia, and India, including hydraulic fracture monitoring in tight
gas, shale gas and oil, steam-assisted gravity drainage, and coalbed methane projects. Her
background includes deep-water oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, working in
the geothermal industry for developments in Indonesia and the Philippines, and working
for a microseismic vendor providing data processing and consulting on hydraulic fracture
monitoring. Ms. Shemeta has been actively involved with the development of software for
both processing and visualization of microseismic throughout her 20-year career. She has
served on numerous meeting committees for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the AAPG. She co-chaired the DGS/RMAG
(Denver Geophysical Society and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists) 3-D Seismic
Symposium from 2009 to 2011 and is still active on the committee. She served as the
Denver Geophysical Society Treasurer in 2008-2009. She obtained her B.S. in geology at
the University of Washington and her M.S. in geophysics with a specialty in earthquake
seismology at the University of Utah.
John L. (Bill) Smith is presently a geothermal consultant having recently retired as a senior
geologist at the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA). He has 46 years of diversified
geologic, geophysical, and geochemical experience in the geothermal and oil and gas indus-
try, including numerous geothermal exploration and development projects in the western
United States and Japan. For the past 25 years he has worked at The Geysers, first designing,
permitting, and evaluating steam production and water injection wells to initially supply a
220 MW power project, and then for more than the past decade monitoring the induced