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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2017 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For improvements in design, construction, and monitoring of earthen liners and covers for municipal hazardous and radioactive waste landfills.

Overview

Craig H. Benson is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on areas such as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction, Pollution, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
  • Nuclear and radioactivity studies
  • Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
  • Risk Perception and Management
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Benson include:

  • "Expanding plastics recycling technologies: chemical aspects, technology status and challenges," 2022, Green Chemistry
  • "Fullerenes and Metallofullerenes in Coal-Fired Stoker Fly Ash," 2024, UKnowledge (University of Kentucky)
  • "Techno-Economic and life cycle assessment of standalone Single-Stream material recovery facilities in the United States," 2023, Waste Management
  • "Quantifying the Benefits of Using Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum in Sustainable Wallboard Production," 2024, UKnowledge (University of Kentucky)
  • "Nuclear waste Educator's workshop: What and how do we teach about nuclear waste?", 2023, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Frequent publication venues for Benson include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Green Chemistry
  • UKnowledge (University of Kentucky)
  • Waste Management
  • Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Benson collaborates often with a number of researchers, including:

  • Sabrina L. Bradshaw
  • Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas
  • Olumide O. Olafasakin
  • Mark Mba Wright
  • Víctor M. Zavala

Benson has been recognized with several awards over the course of their career. These include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2017, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering since 2012, specifically for contributions related to design, construction, and monitoring of earthen liners and covers for municipal hazardous and radioactive waste landfills.

Best Publications

  • Effect of Desiccation on Compacted Natural Clays

    Brian A. Albrecht;Craig H. Benson

  • Evaluating the hydraulic conductivity of GCLs permeated with non-standard liquids

    Charles D Shackelford;Craig H Benson;Takeshi Katsumi;Tuncer B Edil

  • HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND SWELLING OF NONPREHYDRATED GCLS PERMEATED WITH SINGLE-SPECIES SALT SOLUTIONS

    Ho Young Jo;Takeshi Katsumi;Craig H. Benson;Tuncer B. Edil

  • Expanding Plastics Recycling Technologies: Chemical Aspects, Technology Status and Challenges

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  • ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY OF COMPACTED CLAYS

    Zeyad S. Abu-Hassanein;Craig H. Benson;Lisa R. Blotz

  • Water Content-Density Criteria for Compacted Soil Liners

    David E. Daniel;Craig H. Benson

  • Sand Reinforced with Shredded Waste Tires

    Gary J. Foose;Craig H. Benson;Peter J. Bosscher

  • Stabilization of Organic Soils with Fly Ash

    Erdem O. Tastan;Tuncer B. Edil;Craig H. Benson;Ahmet H. Aydilek

  • Practice review of five bioreactor/recirculation landfills.

    C.H. Benson;Morton A. Barlaz;D.T. Lane;J.M. Rawe

  • Field water balance of landfill final covers.

    William H. Albright;Craig H. Benson;Glendon W. Gee;Arthur C. Roesler

  • Field Performance of Compacted Clay Liners

    Craig H. Benson;David E. Daniel;Gordon P. Boutwell

  • Stabilizing Soft Fine-Grained Soils with Fly Ash

    Tuncer B. Edil;Hector A. Acosta;Craig H. Benson

  • Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Clay Liners

    Craig H. Benson;Huaming Zhai;Xiaodong Wang

  • Soil-Water Characteristic Curves for Compacted Clays

    James M. Tinjum;Craig H. Benson;Lisa R. Blotz

  • Capillary Barriers: Design Variables and Water Balance

    Milind V. Khire;Craig H. Benson;Peter J. Bosscher

  • Hydraulic conductivity of thirteen compacted clays

    Craig H. Benson;John M. Trast

  • Long-term hydraulic conductivity of a geosynthetic clay liner permeated with inorganic salt solutions

    Ho Young Jo;Craig H. Benson;Charles D. Shackelford;Jae Myung Lee

  • Influence of Clods on the Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Clay

    Craig H. Benson;David E. Daniel

  • HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND SWELL OF NONPREHYDRATED GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINERS PERMEATED WITH MULTISPECIES INORGANIC SOLUTIONS

    Dale C. Kolstad;Craig H. Benson;Tuncer B. Edil

  • Water Balance Modeling of Earthen Final Covers

    Milind V. Khire;Craig H. Benson;Peter J. Bosscher

  • Closure of "Water Content-Density Criteria for Compacted Soil Liners"

    David E. Daniel;Craig H. Benson

Frequent Co-Authors

Tuncer B. Edil
Tuncer B. Edil University of Wisconsin–Madison
Charles D. Shackelford
Charles D. Shackelford Colorado State University
David E. Daniel
David E. Daniel The University of Texas at Dallas
William J. Likos
William J. Likos University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ahmet H. Aydilek
Ahmet H. Aydilek University of Maryland, College Park
Glendon W. Gee
Glendon W. Gee Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Abdelmalek Bouazza
Abdelmalek Bouazza Monash University
Morton A. Barlaz
Morton A. Barlaz North Carolina State University
Krishna R. Reddy
Krishna R. Reddy University of Illinois at Chicago
Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Akram N. Alshawabkeh Northeastern University

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