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A Special Message From Scott Burns, Past President, IAEG
Welcome to our 36th IAEG Connector, the electronic newsletter connecting engineering geologists around the world!
In this issue, we welcome our new president of IAEG, Prof. Rafig Azzam of Germany, to give his views and vision for the next four years as the new executive committee takes over. He has some wonderful ideas and goals!
Be sure to read all of the current events! The big event this week was the tailings dam collapse in Brazil — an incredible disaster and an interesting engineering geology story behind the collapse!
Enjoy the issue!
Scott Burns, Past President, IAEG
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A special welcome from the new president of IAEG Rafig Azzam
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
First of all, I would like to wish all IAEG members a successful and prosperous 2019.
As the new elected IAEG president, it is my great honor and privilege to me to serve our association according to our mission and for the benefit of our members.
Most of you know me as one of the vice presidents for Europe, and I would like to continue my efforts toward improved IAEG services.
In the past four years, the president and the executive have focused on many important aspects to improve the services of IAEG. Of course, we will continue to finalize these issues. In the last four years, many improvements have been realized, and I would like to thank the executive for its excellent performance. Also, I would like to welcome the new executive members who are enthusiastic to continue the modernization process.
Developing the association needs a vision for the future and is a long-term task of the Executive and Council to achieve the targets. READ MORE
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IAEG
 Geology Applied to Engineering represents a thorough and up-to-date textbook for courses in Applied PhysicaI Geology, Geology for Engineers and Engineering Geology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. It
contains appropriate information for geologists and engineers who are involved in designing and constructing
engineering structures, as all structures are located either on the Earth or in the Earth, or composed of earth
materials. This textbook also provides the fundamentals of subject material included in the Examination for
Professional Licensure of Geologists, a growing need for geologists who work in the public sector.
AEG
The Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists 2019 Annual Meeting invites you to submit an abstract for publication and presentation at the 67th Annual Meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, Sept. 17-22. Abstract online submittal is now open. The deadline to submit your abstract is May 1. For complete meeting details and to register, please visit www.aegannualmeeting.org.
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The Annual Conference SAGEEP 2019 is in Portland in March 2019 and features a full parallel Geohazards Conference including hazards for manmade structures like dams and levees and also a parallel Shallow Marine and Coastal Geophysics Conference, both of which should be of interest to AEG. AEG participation/contribution would be most welcomed.
The Weather Channel
The death toll rose to 34 after a mining dam collapsed in southeastern Brazil, sending a torrent of potentially hazardous debris downstream that caused widespread destruction in a nearby village.
The collapse occurred at the Corrego de Feijao mine near Brumadinho — about 215 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro — in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais Vale SA, the mining company that operates the dam said.
Related: The scale of the tailings dam collapse at Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Brazil
Brazil dam collapse: 10 bodies found and hundreds missing
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Daily Mail
Scientists in Oregon have identified new clues on the warning signs of a big earthquake.
A new study has found that large quakes tend to follow two types of activity: shallow mantle creep and seismic swarms.
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Earth Magazine
A perfectly round desk globe spins evenly on a fixed axis, but that’s not the case with Earth, which wobbles as the position of its spin axis — the imaginary line running between the North and South poles — slowly drifts over time. In a new study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, scientists suggest that there are three main reasons for the movement of Earth’s spin axis, called polar motion.
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The Landslide Blog
The website Rivers Without Boundaries is reporting that works have now started to clear the landslide dam at Bureya Reservoir in Russia. You will remember that this is a large, valley-blocking landslide that occurred Dec. 11, 2018. This generated a bit of a flurry of interest because some parties ascribed this event to a meteorite impact event, which is highly unlikely to be the case.
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Earth Magazine
Glaciers are one of the most powerful erosive agents on Earth, capable of pulverizing entire mountain ranges into dust. These rivers of ice grind over high-elevation landscapes, leaving behind striking pyramidal peaks, knife-edge arêtes, classic U-shaped valleys, deep bowl-shaped cirques and rocky moraines.
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The Landslide Blog
Geologist Bruce Bjornstad has posted a really interesting video onto YouTube showing the development of landslides on the White Bluffs in Hanford Reach National Monument in Washington state. The video, which should be visible below, combines beautifully shot drone footage with a commentary on how these landslides have developed.
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