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John Rice, Ph.D.

Professor
Utah State University
Logan, Utah

John D. Rice, Associate Professor, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Dr. Rice received his Bachelor’s degree in Geology from Humboldt State in 1984, his Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical) from Utah State in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical) from Virginia Tech in 2008. Dr. Rice had more than 16 years of professional experience (from 1988 to 2004) working as a geotechnical consultant in the Oakland, California office of Woodward-Clyde Consultants and the Pleasanton, Santa Rosa, and Sacramento, California offices of Kleinfelder. He is registered as a Civil and Geotechnical Engineer in California. In the latter portion of his consulting career, he worked extensively on the levee systems in the Sacramento area and was responsible for the investigation, assessment, and design of a number of levee seepage and stability mitigation projects. In 2004 he started his Ph.D. studies at Virginia Tech where he studied the long-term performance of seepage barriers in dams.
As an Associate Professor at Utah State University and performs research in the areas of reliability-based analyses of internal erosion potential and laboratory modeling of internal erosion mechanisms. He is the current chair of the ASCE GeoCongress Geomechanics of Soil Erosion Committee and is active in USSD, ASDSO and DFI activities. He served from 2016 to 2019 as an Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering where he was often tasked with handling manuscript submissions dealing with seepage and slope stability issues.

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