Dr. Amy Adams is a Senior Engineer at Knight Piésold Ltd., specializing in the design and construction of mine waste storage facilities. She holds a B.A.Sc. in Geological Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering from MIT. Her expertise includes site characterization, soil behavior, and stability analyses. At this conference, Dr. Adams will present a methodology for rapidly iterating the design of staged embankments over silty clay soils that accounts for significant strength variations with effective stress using Limit Equilibrium Analysis.