On May 9, 2023, Nick Sitar gave the 25th Sowers Lecture entitled: Geology Runs Through It:  On the Role of Depositional Environment and Fabric in the Mechanical Behavior of Granular Sediments.

The Sowers Lecture is a part of the annual Sowers Symposium, held in honor of the memory of Professor George F. Sowers, and sponsored by the Georgia Section ASCE Geo-Institute Chapter and the Georgia Institute of Technology Geosystems Engineering Group.