Nicki Shobert

Nicki Shobert is a geotechnical staff member at Shannon & Wilson’s Seattle office. She has over five years of experience assessing geologic hazards in the Pacific Northwest for public, commercial, and residential projects, and several years of experience characterizing steep slope, high bluff, and rock fall hazards in Hawaii. Her reconnaissance experience includes conventional field methods for surface and subsurface characterization of soil slopes and groundwater, as well as collecting remote sensing data (optical, lidar, thermal) to assess rockfall hazard from cut rock slopes. She also has experience analyzing the stability of natural, modified, temporarily dewatered, and supported slopes. She uses the Python programming language, common slope stability and retaining wall software, and other open-source analytical tools to develop efficient, creative solutions to engineering problem.

EDUCATION

• MS, Geotechnical Engineering, University of Washington, 2022
• BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Hawaii, 2016