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.IAEG NEWS
Special Welcome Message from Scott Burns and Rafig Azzam, IAEG
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| Prof. Rafig Azzam, President, IAEG
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Welcome to the 121st IAEG Connector, the electronic newsletter connecting engineering geologists around the world!
First, our president, Professor Rafig Azzam, is recovering and appreciates all of the "get well quickly" emails from everyone.
Second, we have a new chair of the YEG (Young Engineering Geologists), Stratis Karatanellis of Greece! We congratulate Stratis and his new group of officers. He has a special new agenda that is our first post in this newsletter. We look forward to all of the new ideas!
Third, there are lots of news items in our field! Many landslides and rockfalls in China, India, and Italy are the big news items.
Enjoy the issue!
Scott Burns, now Past President, IAEG, and editor, IAEG Connector, and Rafig Azzam, President, IAEG
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YEG has new chair and new active agenda!
IAEG
Dear President and Executive office of IAEG,
Many greetings from Greece. I hope this email finds you well despite the COVID-19 situation. As the Incoming YEG Chair, I would like to inform you about the progress of YEG actions as the new academic year has already started. After the successful initiation of the monthly "e-YEG" day with fruitful presentations from a Senior and a YEG representative, we just kicked off a new section called "Get to know us better." The latter comprise a section of providing an interview procedure for our YEG and IAEG members. Based on a number of well structured and predefined questions the YEG representative has the chance to present his/her profile to the public via our social media and website. The procedure has been initiated with the interview of YEG Incoming Chair (Stratis Karantanellis) and every 20 days approximately, a new interview will be added to our media starting from the YEG committee. This action should be a prominent initiative for many young Engineering Geologists to get to know our members and give them the opportunity to contact the interviewees for more information on the topic that they are working on.
I would like to ask you if you could diffuse the above action via the Newsletter and IAEG Connector in order to enhance its visibility.
For any further questions I am at your disposal.
Kind regards,
Stratis Karantanellis
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Euroengeo 2020: Full paper or abstract submissions possible
IAEG
After the postponement of the EUROENGEO2020 to mid Spring 2021 (8th to 12th April 2021) the organizing committee of the conference has decided to take advantage of the extra time and call for FULL PAPER SUBMISSION.
The full paper submission is optional. There are now two submission options:
The extended abstract submission and the full paper submission (submissions will be open till the 15th of December). The submission and revision dates will be tight, and we are seeking the cooperation of all authors.
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PhD candidate in rock slope failure research/geohazards
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
The Department of Geosciences announces a vacant position of a four-year Ph.D. fellow in the area of rock slope failure. The candidate will work on the topic of large active unstable rock slopes in Tromso and Finnmark County under the supervision of geohazards and bedrock specialists in the department and in collaboration with researchers from the Technology department of NORCE.
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GeoAmericas 2020
IGS Brasil
A rich technical program Oct. 26-31 will be focused on up-to-date relevant topics for the technical community of geosynthetics and engineering in general. All the activities will be available online, with live and exciting lectures and sessions.
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Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment celebrates 50th Anniversary
IAEG
We are excited to celebrate the 50th year of our Bulletin for IAEG! Each year it keeps getting better and better! Our two wonderful editors, Professors Resat Ulusay and Louis Wong, have summarized the 50-year history of our bulletin. There is a link below where you can access that superb report! Many thanks to all of the contributors and the editors for those 50 years!
Click here to read a recent report on the bulletin.
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3rd EUROENGEO2020 is postponed until spring 2021
IAEG
 The 3rd European Regional Conference of IAEG will be
hosted in Athens, Greece, by the IAEG National Group of Greece. The
conference will be postponed until spring 2021.
A European regional conference of IAEG was decided in the last council
in South Korea. The activation again of the IAEG regional
conference in Europe is a fundamental action for our region.
Unfortunately, since the regional conference of IAEG in Europe has
been inactive for almost 12 years, we do not have the chance to meet
in our region often (the last was five years ago in Torino). Considering
that almost half of the members and National Groups (NGs) of IAEG are
from European region, we hope that the initiative will become a stable
event, involving the scientific and professional community of the same
area.
The conference will be organized with the collection of extensive
abstracts in order to reduce the complexity of the event due to the
limited time. More details about the 3rd European Regional Conference
will be available in few days on the conference website.
It is our pleasure also to announce that the Executive Office and
Council of IAEG for 2020 will be hosted in the occasion of the
conference in Athens.
The next Richard Wolters Prize competition for 2020 will be moreover
presented by IAEG at the occasion of the conference.
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.OTHER CONFERENCES
13th Annual Breakthroughs in Tunneling Virtual Short Course
Oct. 5-9, 2020
We are excited to announce that we are going virtual in 2020. Celebrating its 13th year, the Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course is the longest running and most-attended course of its kind. Presented by leading practitioners from around the globe, the Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course focuses on real-world solutions for real-world problems. All aspects of tunneling will be covered including cutting-edge case studies, developing technologies and trends from around the globe.
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MINEX Russia Forum — Oct. 6-8, 2020
MINEX Forum
The Russian mining industry carries on through the pandemic. Mines continue to mine. Explorers continue to explore. Companies are looking for opportunities to acquire more assets. Investors continue to invest, and lenders to provide finance.
Learn about the transformation of the mining industry in Russia and emerging opportunities. Join MINEX Russia Forum – the first international mining event this year which is physically taking place in Moscow on 6 and 8 October.
Thanks to innovative hybrid technology, the forum and exhibition will offer speakers, exhibitors, and delegates a multilingual platform for presentation and interactions regardless whether you are attending the forum in Moscow in-person or remotely.
For more information, go to https://2020.minexrussia.com/en/main/.
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.LINKS TO NEWSLETTERS OF OUR SISTER SOCIETIES
.GEOLOGY NEWS
Landslide light — an experimental study
The Landslide Blog
Landslide light is the mass movement equivalent of the better known but still somewhat mysterious earthquake light phenomena. According to Wikipedia:
An earthquake light is a luminous aerial phenomenon that reportedly appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity or volcanic eruptions. Skeptics point out that the phenomenon is poorly understood and many of the reported sightings can be accounted for by mundane explanations
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The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake in China
The Landslide Blog
It is widely thought that in terms of landslides, one of the most deadly earthquakes was the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake in China, which had a magnitude of about 8.5. It is generally accepted that this earthquake, which occurred on 16 December 1920, killed at least 234,000 people.
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FedIGS |
Virtual
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| Oct. 6-8, 2020 |
Minex Russia |
Moscow, Russia
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| Nov. 10-12, 2020 |
MINEX 2020 |
Kyoto, Japan
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| Nov. 28-Dec. 3, 2020 |
ICOLD 2020 Annual Meeting |
New Delhi, India
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| Feb. 22-26, 2021 |
13 International Symposium on Landslides |
Cartagena, Colombia
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| March 5-7, 2021 |
1st Geoengineering, Climate Change and Sustantinable Development Conference |
Bangladesh
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| April 8-12, 2021 |
Euroengeo — 3rd European Regional Conference of IAEG |
Athens, Greece
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| May 10-14, 2021 |
IFCEE Expo |
Dallas, Texas
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| May 16-19, 2021 |
EuroGeo 7 |
Warsaw, Poland
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| June 14-18, 2021 |
Cities on Volcanoes 11 |
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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| Aug. 16-21, 2021 |
36th IGC |
Delhi, India
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| Sept. 6-10, 2021 |
1st IAEG South American Regional Conference |
Córdoba, Argentina
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| Oct. 17-20, 2021 |
International Conference on Scour and Erosion |
Arlington, Virginia
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| Nov. 15-19, 2021 |
ARC 13 |
Singapore
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| Sept. 14, 2022 |
FedIGS |
Chengdu, China
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| Sept. 15-20, 2022 |
IAEG Congress |
Chengdu, China
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| Sept. 18-22, 2022 |
12th International Conference on Geosynthetics |
Rome, Italy
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