Kimberly Steward
Biography
Kimberly was born and raised in Prescott, Arizona. She received her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in May 2005 from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She has been working on her master’s degree at UT since the fall of 2005 and plans to finish in May 2007.
Research Description
In situ capping is a successful remediation technique used to isolate contaminated sediments in lake beds from the environment. However, if the lake sediments are too soft, all of the benefits of a cap may be negated due to contaminants moving from the sediment into the cap and the overlying water column. The purpose of my research is to investigate the use of anisotropic consolidation tests to determine if contaminant mobilization occurs in very soft contaminated sediments due to consolidation induced by the added pressure of an in situ cap.
