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A Special Message From Scott Burns, President, IAEG
Welcome to our third IAEG Connector! The response has been wonderful from around the world about having a weekly update on what is happening in IAEG!
In this issue we are highlighting another of our officers, our Secretary General, Prof. Faquan Wu! He has done a wonderful job keeping our organization together and coordinating all of the Secretariat activities for IAEG. We were very excited to see that he will run for another term in this position in San Francisco.
In all of these Connectors, we highlight other conferences of our sister organizations. There are two going on right now in Copenhagen, Denmark, (we are represented at EAGE by Prof. Rafiq Azzam, one of our two vice presidents from Europe) and in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Update about our meeting in San Francisco in September: We are now up to 463 registrants for the conference. We have 40 exhibitors already, too. We have registered for 55% of the rooms in our room block at the hotel.
Hope to see all of you in San Francisco in September! It will be the first time an IAEG congress happens in the United States in our 54 year history.
Prof. Scott Burns, President, IAEG
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A Message From Faquan Wu, Our Secretary General
I have been the secretary general of IAEG since 2010 and the first secretary general from outside of Europe in the history of IAEG. Since 2010, with the blessings of the Council and support of my colleagues within IAEG, I have been running the Secretariat, and this year I plan to continue one more term from 2019-2022. During the past eight years, with the help of the team of the Secretariat, I have been devoted not only to keeping and enhancing the highly effective operation of the Secretariat, but also improving this job upon summarizing the experience of many years.
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IAEG
Mark your calendar to join us for the 61st AEG Annual Meeting/13th IAEG Congress in San Francisco, California on September 17-21, 2018!
AEG is partnering with the International Association of Engineering Geologists and the Environment (IAEG) to host the first ever Congress in the United States in IAEG’s 54-year history.
The 2018 meeting will have a five-day format featuring prominent national and international keynote speakers, four days of technical sessions and symposia, and an all-day Wednesday tour of local geology for full meeting registrants and guests.
Start Date
17 September 2018
End Date
21 September 2018
Note: You must register for the conference by the end of the week in order to get your abstract published in the program and your article (if you submitted an article to the proceedings) published in the proceedings.
Note 2: Solidarity Fund - We have set aside some money in the treasury to help young conference participants from low-income countries to attend the meeting. To apply, please email our president with the request: Dr. Scott Burns, burnss@pdx.edu. The money would be applied toward registration.
Click here to see the schedule!
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June 16-22 in Vancouver, BC, Canada
Resources for Future Generations 2018 (RFG2018) is taking place this month, and we couldn't be more excited to take part. You will likely recognize the names of many of our colleagues and the sector's thought-leaders getting behind this event, and for good reason. As the premier event aiming to bring us all together to tackle issues around the sustainable use, extraction and management of Earth's resources, this discussion couldn't come at a more critical time.
RFG2018 really is for all of us. As a multistakeholder event, each individual will be part of a larger puzzle in addressing our age's greatest challenges. It is a ground-breaking, collaborative, innovative, international conference that is "made-in Canada." We sincerely hope to see you in attendance and contributing your knowledge, experience and perspective on these issues.
If you have not yet registered, you can do so here: www.rfg2018.org.
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June 9-15 in Copenhagen, Denmark
The EAGE Annual 2018 is the largest and most comprehensive multidisciplinary geoscience event in the world. The event includes a large conference — in total over 1,000 technical oral and e-poster presentations — and a technical exhibition presenting the latest developments in geophysics, geology and reservoir/petroleum engineering.
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We are delighted to invite you to take part in MINEX Europe Mining & Exploration Forum we are organising in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, 12-14 June 2018 under the theme "sustainable development of the Western Tethyan metallogenic resources." The forum will provide insights into exciting mining projects developed across the Western Tethyan regions and will highlight innovation trends for exploration and extraction, processing, waste management and mine closure across the European continent and globally. Over 200 international delegates are expected to attend the forum from the Balkans countries, EU, Canada, U.S. and Australia.
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GeoMEast 2018 will provide a showcase for recent developments and advancements in design, construction and safety inspections of transportation infrastructures and offer a forum to discuss and debate future directions for the 21st century. Conference topics cover a broad array of contemporary issues for professionals involved in geosynthetics, geotechnical, geo-environmental, geomechanics, geosciences, geophysics, tunnel, water structures, bridge, pavement, railway and emerging techniques for safety inspections. You will have the opportunity to meet colleagues from all over the world for technical, scientific and commercial discussions.
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Abstract submission is now open for the 7th International Conference on Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation. Convened by the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, the conference will be held in Golden, Colorado, June 10-13, 2019. With the beautiful Rocky Mountains covering half the state, Colorado shares the problem of debris-flow hazards with other mountainous areas of the world. Against this backdrop, scientists, engineers and policy makers from around the world will be able to share new research and ideas in the field of debris flows. Field trips will take place both before and after those dates.
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National Geographic
While trapped inside Mexico's Sistema Huautla by torrential flooding, cavers and scientists discovered new connections — expanding the map of the Western Hemisphere's deepest cave.
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Astrobiology Magazine via Phys.org
A new study suggests that rapid cooling within the Earth's mantle through plate tectonics played a major role in the development of the first life forms, which in turn led to the oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere. The study was published in the March 2018 issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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The Associated Press via The New York Times
Rescuers searching for seven people missing after a dam containing mineral tailings burst at a mine in the northern Mexican border state of Chihuahua found one body that was not yet identified, state officials said.
Some 150 people joined the search over a 7-mile (12-kilometer) course through the mountains where the contaminated water rushed after the dam broke at the Rio Tinto mine complex, the state government said in a statement.
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Naval Research Laboratory via ScienceDaily
Geochemistry analysis of fossil sediment injection structures off the New Zealand coast in February and March reveal no presence of modern day expulsions of methane gas, a potential contributor to global "greenhouse effect" warming.
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University of New Mexico via Phys.org
The Grand Canyon is one of the supreme geologic laboratories on Earth and, after about 140 years of geologic investigation, one might think that its secrets have been mostly resolved. This is especially true of the flat-lying layered rocks that are so visible from both rims within Grand Canyon National Park. Nearly five decades ago, in the late 1970s, was the last time a new formation was discovered and defined in the Grand Canyon with the discovery of the Surprise Canyon Formation.
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Storm Water Soultions
On May 20, water supplies in the mountain tourist town of Shimla, India, ran dry. The city's 172,000 residents have been forced to queue to receive a daily allowance of drinking water stored in large tankers by the local government. As even bottled water becomes scarce, some residents have turned to the so-called "tanker mafia," suppliers of water drawn from boreholes sold at a steep cost.
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