Nawa Raj Pradhan¹, Saurav Bhattarai², Gene Kloss³, Anna M Wagner⁴, Rocky Talchabhadel⁵, Elias J Deeb⁶, Jodi L. Ryder⁷, Ahmad Tavakoly³, Zoe Courville⁸, Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi⁹, Michael Paquette¹⁰, Dhiren Khona¹⁰, Michael Lewis¹⁰ and Grace Carravone¹¹, (1)US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, (2)Jackson State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jackson, MS, United States, (3)US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, (4)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (5)Jackson State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jackson, United States, (6)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, (7)US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States, (8)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (9)University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States, (10)US Army Corps of Engineers Geospatial Research Laboratory, Alexandria, United States, (11)US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, United States