Designing Water Balance Covers for Sustainable Waste Containment : Transitioning State of the Art to State of the Practice -- Computational Plasticity for Geotechnical Applications -- Column-Supported Embankments : Settlement and Load Transfer -- Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering : Stability Analysis of Highly Variable Soils -- Reliability-Based Design of Foundations A Modern View -- Assessment of Slope Stability -- Geotechnical Site Characterization in the Year 2012 and Beyond -- Flexible Pavement Analysis and Design A Half-Century of Achievement -- Shear Wave Velocity Profiling with Surface Wave Methods -- Offshore Geotechnics The Challenges of Deepwater Soft Sediments -- Ground Improvement in the 21st Century : A Comprehensive Web-Based Information System -- U.S. Levee and Flood Protection Engineering in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina -- Seismically Induced Lateral Earth Pressures on Retaining Structures and Basement Walls -- Site Response in NEHRP Provisions and NGA Models -- Tunneling in Difficult Conditions The Squeezing Case -- Ingenuity in Geotechnical Design Using Geosynthetics -- State of the Practice of Characterization and Remediation of Contaminated Sites -- State of the Practice of MSE Wall Design for Highway Structures -- The Business of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering -- Recent Advances in the Selection and Use of Drilled Foundations -- Computer Monitoring in the Grouting Industry -- Site Characterization for Cohesive Soil Deposits Using Combined In Situ and Laboratory Testing -- The State of the Practice in Foundation Engineering on Expansive and Collapsible Soils -- State of Practice : Offshore Geotechnics throughout the Life of an Oil and Gas Field -- State of Practice : Excavations in Soft Soils -- Risk Assessment and Mitigation in Geo-Practice -- The Practice of Forensic Engineering -- Foundation Design for Tall Buildings -- Geotechnical Engineering Education : The State of the Practice in 2011.