@samuelan,
geotechnical engineering . you might call Virginia Tech they have about the best geo program. U Va is there in Charlottville . Their civil engineering is also quite good ND is applied rather than "museum studies" like many of the Ivies are nowadays.
Theres also lotsa consultants in geotechnical engineering in VA(Foundations, lndslides, trenching, earthquake damage).
If youre close to DC (, there are tons of em in Burke, and Columbia.