Coupled Processes

• Improved understanding of the coupling of any natural and/or anthropogenic thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical-bio-gas processes within soils and rocks

• Biogeochemical processes for improving or stabilizing soils

• Multi-phase flow

Surface Containment

• Waste characterization

• Landfill liners and environmental barriers

• Gas generation and extraction

• Waste degradation and settlement

• Capping systems for landfills and polluted sites

• Mine and mineral extraction wastes

Subsurface Containment

• Waste characterization

• Radioactive waste disposal

• Carbon capture and storage

Clean-up

• Novel procedures for the characterization of contaminated sites

• Pollutant retardation and degradation processes

• Active barriers for polluted sites

• Bioremediation / bio-management of metals and radionuclides

• Natural attenuation and enhanced bioremediation of organic pollutants

• Contaminant extraction from polluted soil

Energy (to be coordinated by TC308)

• Thermal properties of soils and rocks

• Energy geostructures

• Shale gas exploitation

Vegetation

• Role of vegetation in sustainable management of slopes and geostructures

• Vegetation controls on urban flooding

• Geotechnics of the soil critical zone: creation or restoration of full soil functionality