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A Special Message From Scott Burns, President, IAEG
Welcome to our 10th IAEG Connector electronic newsletter that is produced weekly to update IAEG members around world! I am writing this from Iceland where I am leading a field trip for 23 people for the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D.C. I am enjoying it! This country is mecca for geologists — the land of "fire and ice."
This week we highlight one of our two vice presidents for Europe for IAEG, Professor Rafig Azzam of Germany. He has been a superb member of our executive committee this year, always coming up with great ideas and offering good advice.
I would also like to introduce Professor Simon Loew of the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, who is one of our keynote speakers! He is a specialist in rock mechanics and tunneling. We look forward to hearing his talk in San Francisco!
I want to point out that today is the last day of "early bird" registration costs for the IAEG congress in San Francisco in September. If you have not yet registered, please do it today to save some money!
See you in San Francisco!
Prof. Scott Burns, President, IAEG
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Rafig Azzam, Ph.D., Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis
Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who
Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Rafig Azzam, Ph.D., with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Azzam celebrates many years of experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process. READ MORE
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Long and Short-Term Response of Rock Slopes to Deglaciation
By Simon Löw, Ph.D., Geology
In this presentation, we report about a long term research project on paraglacial rock slope mechanics located at the Great Aletsch
Glacier in Switzerland. This largest glacier of the European Alps has experienced several minor glacial cycles during the Lateglacial
and Holocene period, which have been studied by previous investigators in great detail. Our project has investigated the physical relationships
of rock slope response to glacial advance and retreat cycles at different time scales: 1) Late Pleistocene and Holocene, 2)
since the Little Ice Age (1850), and 3) during the last 5 years. We have intensively instrumented different types of crystalline rock
slope sections (stable, meta-stable, unstable) along the glacier with surface and subsurface monitoring systems, continuously recording
3-D regional and local strains and small scale fracture dislocations occurring in response to glacial retreat and downwasting, as well as
temperature and water pressure cycles below and above the glacier margin. We show how long-term glacier retreat results in elastic
rebound and exposes rock walls to a "paraglacial thermal shock," and how subglacial meltwater pressures interact with groundwater
conditions in proximal valley flanks under regional annual recharge variations. Together these long- and short-term hydro-thermo-mechanical
processes lead to effective stress changes and cyclic loading in the adjacent rock slopes. These stress changes drive irreversible
fracture propagation and rock mass damage, which can be recorded even in “stable” slopes. As such, we can document for the
first time how stable rock slopes transition into rock slope instabilities through geologic time, and how “mature” rock slope instabilities
dramatically respond to ongoing glacier retreat accelerated by climate change.
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Save the date and register today for the must-attend International Naturally Occurring Asbestos (NOA) Symposium featuring internationally renowned NOA research and industry-focused geologists, regulators and policymakers from Italy, France, Australia, Argentina, Germany, South Korea and the United States.
LOCATION: Waterfront AB, Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, San Francisco
DATE: September 18-20, 2018
This is a rare opportunity to hear how industrialized countries from around the world are dealing with NOA issues without having to spend the time and expense to travel abroad. From the Alps to the Australian outback, to the Andes to the California Coastal Ranges
and Sierra Foothills, the issue of NOA, how it occurs, how it is identified, how it is
regulated and controlled will be explored on a global scale.
Who should attend: Geologists, Asbestos Consultants, Environmental Consultants, Certified Industrial Hygienists, Geotechnical Engineers, Risk Assessors, Testing Laboratories, Government Regulators, Epidemiologists, Toxicologists
Click here for more information, hotel reservations and to register!
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AEG — 61st AEG Annual Meeting/13th IAEG Congress
Join us for your choice of 15 presentations that explore and explain the history and operation of licensure for geologists in the USA. Learn how licensure is influencing undergraduate programs and early career decisions. Be prepared for your future in regulatory compliance practice. California Geological Survey Program Managers will provide authoritative descriptions of the Survey's three major public safety programs. Take a look at Utah's new comprehensive non-mandatory practice guidelines; some of them might work in your state. We close with three papers on political geology. Come and learn about lobbyists and how (and why) to shake hands with a legislator. The final talk reports on cooperation among the three west coast licensure boards to increase practitioner mobility.
CONVENER & MODERATOR: Robert E. Tepel
LOCATION: Waterfront AB, Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, San Francisco
DATE: Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018
31 states and Puerto Rico license geologists.
Over 75 percent of the U.S. population lives in a state that licenses geologists.
The three west coast states offer supplemental statutory certification for engineering geology practice. How does that affect you?
Undergraduate geology program accreditation is now available through ABET's Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission. What are the implications for licensure applicants and their boards?
The ASBOG® (National Association of State Boards of Geology) two-part examination is used by all licensing jurisdictions. How is it constructed and is the knowledge base publicly available?
Learn how (and why) to shake hands with a legislator and what lobbyists can do for you.
Click here for more information!
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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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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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National Geographic
Supervolcanoes sound terrifying, but the risks they pose don't usually match their fearsome reputations. Yellowstone in particular often makes its way into headlines, as every earthquake swarm or change in geyser activity spawns unfounded rumors of an apocalyptic eruption.
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CNN
Fourteen people have died after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in Indonesia, damaging more than 1,000 homes and sending residents fleeing for safety.
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Rice University
Scientists have long thought oxygen appeared in Earth’s lower atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago, making life as we know it possible. A Rice University researcher has added evidence to support that number.
The sulfur record held by ancient rock marks the dramatic change in the planet’s atmosphere that gave rise to complex life, but rocks are local indicators. For the big picture, Rice biogeochemist Mark Torres used water that flows over and erodes the rocks as a proxy.
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BBC News
Hundreds of people are missing and thousands have been made homeless after the collapse of a partially built dam in Laos. The collapsed dam sent flash floods through six villages. Associate professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ian Baird disagrees with calling it a natural disaster and explains why it could have been prevented.
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Geospatial World
LiDAR has a large number of applications other than the commonly known high precision sensors in autonomous cars, laser scanning, photogrammetry and bathymetry. It can also be used in detecting and analyzing the phenomenon of natural disasters such as landslides.
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