VINSON, Ted S.

Professor

e- mail: Ted.Vinson@orst.edu

DEGREES

B.S. (with honors), Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1966

M.S., Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), University of California, Berkeley, 1967

Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), University of California, Berkeley, 1970

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, 1972‑1976

Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, 1976

Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Oregon State University, 1976‑1982

Acting Director, Transportation Research Institute, 1981‑1982 and 1988-1990

Professor, Civil Engineering, Oregon State University, 1982‑

Official Visitor, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University, England, 1983‑1984

DAAD Research Fellow, Lehrstuhl für Grundbau und Bodenmechanik, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, Summer 1988

Chair of Geocryology (Visiting), Faculty of Geology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, U.S.S.R, June/July 1989

Erskine Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand,

Feb.-June 1999.

NON‑ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Research Engineer, University of California, Berkeley, 1970

Geotechnical Engineer, Kaiser Engineers, Oakland, California, 1970‑1972

Summer Faculty Research Associate, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, 1985

Chairman, Permafrost Committee (Polar Research Board), National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1989-1991.

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Geotechnical Engineering; Cold Regions Engineering, Carbon Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems