Marine Geotechnical Laboratories

A number of marine geotechnical laboratories came into existence in the 20 years following Arrhenius s studies including A.F. Richards s at the University of Illinois and later Lehigh University, E.L. Hamilton and D.G. Moore s at the Naval Electronics Laboratory, G.H. Keller s at Environmental Science Service Association (later National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]) in Miami, R.J. Smith s at the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, 

Kravitz s at the Naval Oceanographic Office, and V.A. Nacci s af fhe Universify of Rhode Island. 

6 Events Occurring to Change Marine Geotechnology in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s 

Major changes to a state of the art that had been fairly stable since 1962 occurred in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A number of events coerced to cause this change. 

Hurricane Camile struck the Gulf Coast in August 1969 destroying two offshore structures and badly damaging a third. The structures had experienced storm wave-induced mudslides. This brought forward the need for better sediment properties and methods of analysis. 

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University of Illinois Laboratory of Marine Geotechnics (LMG) founded... 

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