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A Special Message From Scott Burns, President, IAEG
Welcome to our 6th IAEG Connector! In this issue, we are putting the spotlight on another IAEG officer and the second announced keynote speaker.
Our Vice President for North America is Eldon Gath, President of Earth Consultants International of California. He replaced Jeff Keaton last year as VP for North America when Jeff could not spend the time on IAEG because he was chairing a national committee with ABET in the United States. Eldon has been past president of AEG and is a specialist in paleo-seismology. He has been very active on the IAEG Executive Committee.
I would also like to introduce Professor Atiye Tugrul from Turkey who will be one of the eight keynote speakers at the congress. She is one of the top people in the world in aggregates. She is the chair of the IAEG Commission on Aggregates and from 2010-2014 and was one of the Vice Presidents for Europe for IAEG. She is in the Applied Geology Division of the Department of Geological Engineering at Istanbul University.
I wanted to update you on the Congress in San Francisco. Today, we got the numbers and 561 total people have registered in all of the categories for the congress. We will have over 600 talks and poster session presentations. 63 percent of the room block has been reserved so far.
Prof. Scott Burns, President, IAEG
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Eldon Gath: 2014-2015 Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Applied Geology
Eldon, a consulting engineering geologist, has more than 30 years of experience in the identification, investigation, and remediation of geologic hazards, involving land use planning, environmental assessments, field exploration programs and presentation of findings. He has particular experience with the evaluation of active faults for construction site planning, the development of seismic safety programs and policies, and is currently engaged in efforts to modernize California's 40-year old active fault zoning act (Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act).
Eldon is the President of Earth Consultants International, a geological consulting firm [helping our clients solve complex earth-science problems around the world] that he co-founded in 1997, following 12 years with Leighton Consulting in southern California. He has considerable international experience including field projects in Turkey, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea, as well as project involvement in many other countries.
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The State of Aggregates in the World Today
President of Aggregate Commission, International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG),
Istanbul University, Department of Geological Engineering, tugrulatiye@gmail.com
In addition to the increasing population and structuring in the growth/development process of a country or megacity, the obligation to maintain industrial and infrastructure investments makes aggregate one of the most consumed building materials per capita. Aggregates are sand, gravel, crushed rock, recycled and manufactured aggregates. They are clearly essential not only as asphalt and concrete aggregate, railway ballast, armor stone, gabion, foundation material for the roadbed, embankment materials etc., but also as cement raw material. According to the reports of non-governmental organizations, most of the aggregates come from hard rock quarries and sand and gravel deposits. The remaining 10 percent comes from recycling of industrial waste, such as slag and ashes and construction and demolition waste (8 percent). The rest come from marine deposits and industrial manufactured aggregates (4 percent). READ MORE
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We just received word that Owen White of Canada, the president of IAEG from 1986-1990, passed away in Canada. He was loved by so many engineering geologists world wide. He was 92 years old. Professor Owen White got his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and then became a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada from 1966-1977. He then was the Chief Engineering Geologists for the Ontario Geological Survey from 1977-1990 when he retired. He was the Hans Cloos Medal winner for IAEG in 1998. He will be missed!
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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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Arizona State University via ScienceDaily
Fossil records tell us that the first macroscopic animals appeared on Earth about 575 million years ago. Twenty-four million years later, the diversity of animals began to mysteriously decline, leading to Earth's first know mass extinction event. A research team is helping to unravel this mystery and understand why this extinction event happened, what it can tell us about our origins and how the world as we know it came to be.
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center via Phys.org
A large multidisciplinary team of scientists, equipped with advanced underwater robotics and an array of analytical instrumentation, will set sail for the northeastern Pacific Ocean. The team's mission for NASA and the National Science Foundation is to study the life and death of the small organisms that play a critical role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and in the ocean's carbon cycle.
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Knowledge@Wharton
Infrastructure is among health care, immigration, trade and other pressing topics on the American political agenda that need immediate attention. It's also one of the most difficult problems to solve because it's expensive, divisive and downright complicated.
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Tech Times
Researchers have discovered that the minerals comprising granite crystallize from a molten state at a temperature far lower than previously thought.
The new finding challenges geologists' long-held theories about the history of the Earth and how it formed into the crust, mantle and core.
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United Press International
If scientists don't know what alien life will look like, how do they know what to look for?
As part of NASA's Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, an international team of astronomers, biologists and geologists have compiled the best strategies for anticipating and locating life beyond our solar system.
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Linnéuniversitetet via Phys.org
Search for signs of ancient microbial life in the geological record is challenging due to degradation of the primary organic material. Therefore, proof of biogenic origin often relies on chemical signatures that microorganisms leave behind. A new study of minerals in rock cracks presents chemical signatures that are definite proofs of widespread ancient life processes in the energy-poor continental crust.
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