Qian Zhao, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, Dinesh Adhikari, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV, Jacqueline Mejia, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, Rixiang Huang, College of Engineering and Applied Scienes, Georgia Institute of Technology, Delmar, NY, US, Aman Patel, The Davidson Academy of Nevada, Reno, NV, Xilong Wang, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, Yuanzhi Tang, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Daniel Obrist, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, Eric E. Roden, Dept. of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and Yu Yang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV, US