Biscontin, G. and and J.M. Pestana, "Factors Affecting Seismic Response of Submarine Slopes," Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, January 2006, Vol. 6 (1), pp. 97-107.

 Pestana, J. M. and L. A. Salvati, "Small Strain Behavior of Granular Soils: I. Model for Cemented and Uncemented Sands and Gravels," J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., January 2006, Vol. 132, No. 8, pp. 1071-1081.

 Salvati, L. A. and J. M. Pestana, "Small Strain Behavior of Granular Soils: II. Seismic Response Analyses and Model Evaluation," J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng, January 2006, Vol. 132, No. 8, pp. 1082-1090.

 Mayoral, J.M., J.M. Pestana and R.B. Seed, "Determination of multidirectional p-y curves for soft clays," ASTM, Geotech. Testing J., January 2005, Vol. 28(3), pp. 253-263.

 Biscontin, G., J.M. Pestana and F. Nadim, "Seismic triggering of submarine landslides in soft cohesive soil deposits," Marine Geology, 2004, 203 (3 & 4), pp. 341-354.

 Heath, A.C., J.M. Pestana, J.T. Harvey and M.O. Bejarano, "Normalizing Behavior of Unsaturated Granular Pavement Materials," J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., January 2004, Vol. 130, No. 9, pp. 896-904.

 Perri, J.F., J.M. Pestana and R.G. Bea, "Applications Short Time Response Spectrum," Proceedings of the 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, April 18-22, 2006, San Francisco, California, January 2006, paper 552.

 Vera-Grunauer, X., J.D. Bray, J.M. Pestana, R. Kayen, E. Tandazo, J. Ramirez, J.G. Vera-Grunauer and W. Mera-Ortiz, "Site characterization and seismic zonation of Guayaquil city, Ecuador," Proceedings, 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, April 18-22, 2006, San Francisco, California, January 2006, paper 1467.

 Mayoral, J. M., J. M. Pestana and R. B. Seed, "Modeling of clay-pile interface behavior during multidirectional cyclic lodading," Proceedings of the 8th U. S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, April 18-22, San Francisco, California, January 2006, paper 1467.

 Biscontin, G. and and J.M. Pestana, "Modeling of Soft Clays Response For Seismic Triggering of Submarine Slides," Calibration Of Constitutive Models, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 139, J.A. Yamamuro and V.N. Kaliakin, eds., ASCE, January 2005, Vol. 139.

 Pestana, J.M., M. Nikolinakou and A.J. Whittle, "Selection of Material Parameters for Sands using the MIT-S1 Model," Soil Constitutive Models: Evaluation, Selection and Calibration, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 139, J.A. Yamamuro and V.N. Kaliakin, eds., ASCE, January 2005, Vol. 139, pp. 425-439.

 Kammerer, A.M., R.B. Seed, J. Wu, M.F. Riemer and J.M. Pestana, "Pore Pressure Development in Liquefiable Soils under Bi-Directional Loading Conditions," 11th Int. Conf. on Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engng, 3rd Int. Conf. on Earthquake Geotechnical Engng, 2004, Vol. I, pp. 697-704.

 Salvati, L.A. and Pestana, J.M., "Evaluation of a Simple Method for Nonlinear Site Response Analysis," 11th Int. Conf. on Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engng, 3rd Int. Conf. on Earthquake Geotechnical Engng, 2004, Vol. II, pp. 524-531.

  Kammerer, A., J. Wu, M. Riemer, J. M. Pestana and R. Seed, "Shear strain development in liquefiable soil under bi-directional loading conditions," Proceedings of the 13th World Conf. Earthquake Engng., Vancouver, Canada, January 2004, 2081 pages.

  Kammerer, A., J. Wu, M. Riemer, J. M. Pestana and R. Seed, "A new multi-directional direct simple shear testing database," Proceedings of the 13th World Conf. Earthquake Engng., Vancouver, Canada, January 2004, 2083 pages.

 Wu, J., A. Kammerer, M. F. Riemer, R. B. Seed and J. M. Pestana, "Laboratory study of liquefaction triggering criteria,," Proceedings of the 13th World Conf. Earthquake Engng., Vancouver, Canada, January 2004, 2580 pages.

 Perri, J.F. and J.M. Pestana, Analyses of Ground Motions for Seismic Studies using the Short Time Response Spectrum, Dep. of Civil & Environ. Engng., University of California, Berkeley GeoEngineering Research Report No. UCB/GE/2006, June 2006.

 R.B. Seed, R.I. Abdelmalak, A.G. Athanasopoulos, R.G. Bea, G.P. Boutwell, J.D. Bray, J.-L. Briaud, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, J. Cohen-Waeber, B,D. Collins, L. Ehrensing, D. Farber, M. Hanenmann, L.F. Harder, M.S. Inamine, K.S. Inkabi, A.M. Kammerer, D. Karadeniz, R.E. Kayen, R.E.S. Moss, J. Nicks, S. Nimala, J.M. Pestana, J. Porter, K. Rhee, M.F. Riemer, K. Roberts, J.D. Rogers, R. Storesund, A. Thompson, A.V Govindasamy, X. Vera-Grunauer, J. Wartman, C.M. Watkins, E. Wenk and S. Yim, Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, CITRIS Center, University of California, Berkeley, Draft report, May 22, Report No. UCB/CCRM – 06/01, January 2006.

 Perri, J.F., J.M. Pestana and R.B. Bea, Short Time Response Spectrum, GeoEngineering Research Report No. UCB/GE/2005, Dep. of Civil & Environ. Engng., University of California, Berkeley, June 2005.

 Seed, R.B., P.G.Nicholson, R.A.Dalrymple, J. Battjes, R.G. Bea, G. Boutwell, J.D. Bray, B.D. Collins, L.F. Harder, J.R. Headland, M. Inamine, R.E. Kayen, R. Kuhr, J.M. Pestana, F. Silva-Tulla, R. Storesund, S. Tanaka, J. Wartman, T.F. Wolff, L. Wooten and T. Zimmie, Preliminary Report on the Performance of the New Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, University of California, Berkeley, November 162005, CITRIS Center, Report No. UCB/CITRIS – 05/01, January 2005.

 Pestana, J.M., G. Biscontin, P. Simonini and S. Cola, Compressibility of natural Venice silts, GeoEngineering Research Report No. UCB/GE/04-01, Dep. of Civil & Environ. Engng., University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

 Pestana, J.M., "Avances Recientes en la Ingeniería Geotécnica de Terremotos," Proc. VIII Congreso Venezolano de Sismología e Ingeniería Sísmica, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela, May 19, January 2006.

 Pestana, J.M., G. Biscontin, P. Simonini and S. Cola, "Mechanical Behavior of Silts under 1-D Compression: The Venice Connection," Proc. 53rd Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference, University of Minnesota, January 2005.

 Biscontin, G. and J.M. Pestana, "Multi-Directional Simple Shear Response of Soft Marine Clays," 2nd Int. Conference on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Oslo, Norway, September, January 2005.

 Kim, S. and J.M. Pestana, "Importance of Parameter Selection in Couple Deformation-Flow Problems," in Report of Technical Session 1e: Análisis: Nova, R., Murakami, A., Rouainia, M., Delage, P., Gens, A., Pestana, J.M., Griffiths, D.V., Usuoka, R., Proc. 16th Int. Conf. on Soil Mech. And Geotech. Engng., Osaka, Japan, January 2005.