... SOURCE:Mitchell and Santamarina (2005); used with permission.aware of them and are beginning to study their role in determining and controlling soil properties and behavior and exploiting them in engineer-ing ... self-assembleinto networks; and information interpretation and use for decision and feedback, sampling, location optimization, monitoring, and diagnostictools. MEMS research problems include identifying ... characterization, developing means for bioaugmentation and biostimulation in the ground, the definition ofseepage flows and pathways, the development and implementation ofsampling and monitoring programs,...