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Special Welcome Message from Scott Burns
Welcome to the 228th IAEG Connector, the electronic newsletter connecting environmental and engineering geologists around the world!
The results of the Richard Wolter's Prize was also announced this week! Congratulations to Jennifer Day of Canada!
This coming week there will be two major conferences: first, in Nepal and also Geoasia 7. We hope that they are very successful!
Hurricane Roslyn caused many landslides and floods in Mexico. Three volcanoes are close to erupting in Alaska, Hawaii, and Italy! There is a great video of mudflows in California.
Enjoy
Scott Burns, now Past Past President, IAEG, and editor, IAEG Connector
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.IAEG NEWS
Problem in the front yard of a house in Auckland, New Zealand
The photo was submitted by Ross Roberts, an engineering geologist in Auckland, New Zealand
This was taken in Auckland. The house is two years old but had only been occupied for four weeks when a fairly deep-seated rotational slip occurred in the fill platform that had been placed for the building. The site is on the side of a valley with a residually weathered clay mantle overlying sandstone, and a cut-fill platform for the house.The owners were understandably very upset. Fortunately their house was on piles, so was undamaged, but all their services were lost so the house was uninhabitable for many months. Ross suspects that the fill was not well compacted, and probably moved a little in wet weather causing damage to the services. Once the owners moved in, and turned on the water supply, the damaged pipes would have quickly exacerbated the situation. A very large soldier pile wall has since been built in front of the house to restore a few metres of land and the services.
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Dr. Jennifer Day of Canada wins the 2022 Richard Wolters Prize
President Rafig Azzam and Secretary General Faquan W
This is the formal notification to inform you that the winner of 2022 Richard Wolters Prize is
awarded to Dr. Jennifer Day nominated by the Canadian National Group and the runner-ups
to Dr. Wenping Gong nominated by the China National Group and Dr. Gianvito Scaringi
nominated by the Czech Republic National Group, for their meritorious scientific
achievements and contributions to engineering geology.
Congratulations to the recipients and their National Groups!
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AGS Sydney Symposium
AGS
This is the final reminder to buy tickets for the AGS Sydney Symposium at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour on Friday 11 November 2022.
This year, very high profile national/international speakers including Prof. Kok-Kwang Phoon from Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) will deliver presentations.
Three new AGS Life Member inductees will be honoured with plaques and certificates by the AGS Chair, Dr David Lacey:
- Mr. Bruce Walker
- Dist. Prof. Buddhima Indraratna; and
- Mr. Peter Robinson
This annual Symposium is a unique learning and networking opportunity for AGS members.
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Engineering Geology Division of Geological Society of America celebrates its 75th Anniversary
EGD
This past week the Engineering Geology Division (EGD) of the Geological Society of America (GSA) celebrated its 75th anniversary at the annual meeting of 6000 geologists in Denver, Colorado, USA. A special "Pardee Session" was held to celebrate the oldest division of the GSA . The division was formed in 1947. These applied geologists coined the term "engineering geology," and it has been used ever since. All other engineering geology organizations developed in the following 20 years. We will have a short history next week in the Connector. The EGD and AEG are the two organizations that make up the national group of the United States for IAEG. Congratulations to EGD on its birthday!
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Portland State University Invites Applications for Professor of Engineering Geology
Portland State University
The Geology Department and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Portland State University is now accepting applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Engineering Geology to start in Fall 2023.
We seek diverse candidates with backgrounds in near surface geology and geotechnical investigations, including but not limited to geologic hazards such as landslides and slope stability, earthquakes, ground motions, and seismic investigations, erosion, flooding, dewatering, groundwater investigations, and the intersection of geologic hazards and climate change. Salary will be negotiated commensurate with years of related experience, applicable skills, market parity, and internal equity.
We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may not meet every one of our listed qualifications. Lived experience may count towards the preferred qualifications listed above. If you are excited about this position, we encourage you to apply. Applications will be accepted starting on November 1st, and will be considered until the position is filled.
Please spread the word!
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Ph.D. Program in Italy in Sustainable to Regenerative and Resilient Design
Mediterranean Ph.D. School
Mediterranean PhD School:
FROM SUSTAINABLE TO REGENERATIVE AND RESILIENT DESIGN
This is the third edition of a series of PhD Schools that the University of Naples Federico II organizes annually.
PhD Students in any field are invited to participate free of charge.
RECOGNITION OF CREDITS
The School includes the recognition of educational credits together with the issue of the final certificate. The workload of the participation to the Med School corresponds to 3 ECTS (3 CFU).
Program: https://www.dicea.unina.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Time-table-final.pdf
Registration: https://www.dicea.unina.it/mediterranean-phd-school-2022/
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Full Length Papers for 2023 Congress are due December 31, 2022
IAEG
The XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment will be held in Chengdu Century City New International Convention and Exhibition Center, Chengdu, China on September 21-27, 2023. Based on the theme of “Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth”, the congress is expected to enhance the disciplinary and research development of international engineering geology and the environment, and contribute to the advancement of major projects, ecological progress, and habitable earth with research and discussion in global climate change mitigation and adaption, geological hazard assessment and prevention, geotechnical properties of rock and soil mass, engineering geology applied to traffic, energy, urban and marine, ecological environment protection in major projects, and artificial intelligence, new theories and technologies in engineering geology, etc. We warmly welcome the worldwide engineering geological community to come to Chengdu to participate in this academic event.
It will be highly appreciated if you could recommend IAEG XIV 2023 Congress to your faculty, colleagues and students.
We are calling for full-length papers, and the deadline is December 31, 2022:
For the Notification, please refer to https://mcusercontent.com/a9fb57846c769f467423ee6c9/files/d7e88efe-be59-02e3-0ad1-9904b279174a/Notification_IAEG_XIV_CONGRESS_2023_.pdf
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New iAEG Bylaws pass the Council meeting
IAEG
After many months of work by a super sub-committee of the executive committee of IAEG, the new updated Bylaws can be found by clicking on the link below. Many thanks to Dr. Jean Hutchinson (Vice President for Canada) who chaired the committee which included Professor Vassilis Marinos (VP for Europe), Norberto Jorge Bejerman (VP for South America), Doug Johnson (VP for Australia/New Zealand), and Scott Burns (Past President).
Read the Bylaws here.
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Save the Date for Next Year's Congress!
IAEG
The XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the
Environment will be held in Chengdu Century City New International Convention
and Exhibition Center, Chengdu, China from September 21 to 27, 2023. Based
on the theme of “Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth”, the congress
expects to enhance the disciplinary and research development of international
engineering geology and the environment, and contributes to the advancement of
major projects, ecological progress, and habitable earth with research and
discussion in global climate change mitigation and adaption, geological hazard
assessment and prevention, geotechnical properties of rock and soil mass, engineering geology applied to traffic, energy, urban and marine, ecological
environment protection in major projects, and artificial intelligence, new theories and
technologies in engineering geology, etc. We warmly welcome the worldwide
engineering geological community to come to Chengdu to participate in this
academic ev
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Final results of the new elected IAEG Officers 2023-2026:
IAEG
President: Vassillis Marinos
Secretary General: Faquan Wu
Treasurer: Jean Alain Fleurisson
Vice Presidents for Asia: Ranjan Kumar Dahal & YongSeok SEO
Vice President for Africa: Moshood Niyi TIJANI
Vice President for Australasia: Anthony Bowden
Vice President for Latin America: Víctor Manuel Hernández Madrigal
Vice President for North America: Julien Cohen-Waeber
Vice Presidents for Europe: Helen Reeves & Janusz Wasowski
Congratulations to the new elected board members!
Thank you so much for your involvements and supports!
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Join MINEX Eurasia Mining Conference
MINEX
We are delighted to invite you to MINEX Eurasia Mining Conference which will be held on 2 December in London and live steamed online. Speakers will be presenting in person and remotely to the audience in London and remote viewers whatching live broadcast. The conference is organised under theme “Mining in changing and challenging environment in Eurasia”.
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Annual Report and Video for YEG
YEG
The YEG (Young Engineering Geologists) group of IAEG has been very active this past year. Dr. Stratis Karantenellis has been the main leader, but because he has moved from Greece to the University of Michigan in the United States, he has handed off some of the duties to a wonderful group of new leaders. Below are links to the annual report and also a link to a video they have produced! Enjoy!
Link to video here.
Link to report here.
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Indian National Group sponsors EGCON 2022 Conference, 16-17 November, 2022 in India
ISEG
Indian Society of Engineering Geology (ISEG), is the Indian National Group of International Association for Engineering Geology and The Environment (IAEG). ISEG has about 1610 life members from the field of Engineering Geosciences & allied fields representing most of the leading organizations in India and abroad. ISEG also publishes its biannual journal “Journal of Engineering Geology (www.Joegindia.com).
ISEG in association with NHPC Ltd. (A Govt. of India Enterprise) successfully organised EGCON 2021 in hybrid mode in December 2021. IAEG provided wide coverage for the conference and a key note address was given by Secretary General Prof. Wu Faquan and Dr. Louis Wong, Bulletin Editor, IAEG in the conference. I am happy to inform you that the 3 days conference had international keynote speakers from 14 different fields and had an overwhelming response with more than 124 technical papers. The conference was attended by more than 500 delegates from India, Canada, Germany, USA, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Nepal, Bhutan etc.
Now ISEG in association with Geological Survey of India is organizing a two days International Conference EGCON 2022 on “Geotechnical Perspectives for Safe and Sustainable Infrastructures” from 16-17 November 2022 at Kolkata, India to deliberate upon state-of-the-art technologies in the domain of Engineering Geology, Engineering Geophysics, Earthquake Engineering, Geotechnics and Geohazards.
Learn more here.
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35th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet (HKT) Workshop in Pokhara, Nepal, 2-4 November 2022
NGS
Nepal Geological Society is going to organize the 35th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet (HKT)
Workshop in Pokhara, Nepal from November 2 to 4, 2022. This international conference
"Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet (HKT)" has been organizing annually since 1985. Actually, it
provides an important platform for researchers who are working in the region of the HimalayaKarakorum-Tibet related to India-Asia Tectonic System for workshop-style discussion among
their colleagues. For further details click here.
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IAEG Secretary General message
IAEG
Dear colleagues，
We would like to catch your attention to submit proposals of hosting IAEG international events including 15th IAEG Congress in 2026, regional conferences of different continents (like Asian Regional Conference, European Regional Conference, African Regional Conference，Latin American Regional Conference etc.). If you have the plan to host such an IAEG international event, please prepare a proposal which is going to be presented to the Council for approval at the council meeting held on September 14th this year.
Please contact me if you would like to apply for any IAEG International Events.
Thank you for your attention!
Faquan Wu, Secretary General, IAEG
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EEGS / AEG / ASRS 2022 Virtual Symposium on 'Life of Mine — Maintaining Sustainability Through Geoscience' November 14-17, 2022, Virtual Conference
EEGS, AEG, ASRS
The symposium topics plan to cover this broad sweep (6Rs and 4Ms) with presentations on state-of-the-art aspects of principles, methodologies and case histories of the role of geoscience (geology, geophysics, hydrogeology, geotechnical, geochemistry, soil science etc.) to assist and facilitate mine engineering, environmental, geotechnical, water and soil management and regulatory approaches. The aim is to demonstrate the contribution of integrated geoscience to responsible progressive mine operation and monitoring, ore-winning optimization and waste limitation, rehabilitation, re-purposing of historical mines (e.g. re-processing of mine wastes for critical minerals) and closure and reclamation planning and implementation.
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Forming a national group
IAEG
The organisation of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the
Environment is generally conducted through National Groups although individual
membership is also permitted. Associate membership is encouraged and wherever
possible associate members will form part of a National Group. Groups of engineering geologists wishing to form a National Group should contact the Secretary General who will
assist them in preparing their application for consideration by the Executive Committee and Council.
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Submit a photo of engineering geology in action to the IAEG Connector
IAEG
The executive committee of IAEG at our recent meeting in Athens suggested we need to have a good photo at the beginning of every IAEG Connector about engineering geology. We have to be careful about publishing photos because of copyright laws. So, we are asking our members to submit photos that they will allow us to use in our newsletter. The photos will show the diversity of what we do! They can be photos of something geological or engineering geologists working on some project. The photographer will get credit for the photo in the newsletter.
If you would like to submit a photo for us to review, send it to Scott Burns, Editor at burnss@pdx.edu.
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7th Asian Regional Conference on Geosynthetic and 2021 IGS ACC Young Engineers Conference (GeoAsia7)
GeoAsia7
It is our great pleasure to inform you that the 7th Asian Regional Conference on Geosynthetic and 2021 IGS ACC Young Engineers Conference (GeoAsia7) will be held on Oct. 31-Nov. 4 in 2022 at Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Taipei, Taiwan.
On behalf of the GeoAsia7 Committees, we would like to invite you and Portland Satate University to participate in GeoAsia7. Do not miss out on the largest conference of geosynthetics in Asia!
This conference takes place annually in Europe, America and Asia. This year, Taiwan has the great honor to held this conference. The main theme of the GeoAsia7 is Hazard’s Risk Management, Innovation, and Sustainability. Several subjects on modern geosynthetic technologies and activities will be covered up to match up the main theme, the GeoAsia7 will definitely become the most astonishing event for the worldwide geosynthetic societies in 2022.
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3rd JTC1 Workshop on Impact of global changes on landslide risk
NGI
The Joint Technical Committee on Natural Slopes and Landslides (JTC1) of FedICGS is delighted to invite you to join us at the 3rd JTC1 Workshop on Impact of global changes on landslide risk, to be held in Oslo, Norway, on 7-10 June 2023. Anthropogenic impacts and related climate change are unquestionably changing the landslide risk and impacting how we assess and manage the risk(s).
The aim of the workshop is to promote discussion between scientists and engineers on whether we are capable of predicting and quantifying the expected changes in landslide risk and how we could implement the knowledge gained from academic research on landslide risk management into practice.
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.LINKS TO NEWSLETTERS OF OUR SISTER SOCIETIES
.GEOLOGY NEWS
'Our building's covered': Video shows mud rushing over California saloon, 'catastrophic' rain
USA Today
Mudslides and flooding unleashed by heavy rains in Southern California prompted evacuation and shelter in place orders for thousands of people and later, the aftermath was being felt across the state.
Rain that fell in a mountainous area east of Los Angeles were the remnants of a tropical storm and shot boulders and other debris across roads damaging structures including a commercial building where the mud was so high it collapsed the roof.
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Eruption of Italy's Stromboli volcano spotted from space
Space.com
Europe's Copernicus Earth-observing mission Sentinel-2 captured a striking image of Italy's Stromboli volcano less than five hours after it erupted early on Oct. 9.
The image, processed in true colors, shows lava pouring into the sea and huge plumes of smoke and ash rising above the volcano.
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Hawaii island might have little warning before a Mauna Loa eruption, scientists say
Hawaii News Now
There are still no signs of an imminent eruption on Mauna Loa, but residents are being warned they could get just a few hours notice before an eruption.
After weeks of elevated earthquake rates, officials are now holding public meetings warning families to prepare for a natural disaster that could affect half of the island.
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How a Tongan volcanic eruption almost guarantees a 'flooded summer' for Australia's east coast
Sky News Australia
Recent news headlines once again gravitated towards weather. For once, there was a good news story: La Niña to end early!
Some people took this to mean that La Nina could end before the end of summer, and potentially bring normal weather from February.
The first part of that statement is certainly in the realm of possibility, but the second part seems more like wishful thinking.
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Ocean heating will increase monsoon rainfall in East Asia
SciTechDaily
Stronger winds and warming of the upper ocean layers in the western tropical Pacific have been linked to increased rain in eastern China.
According to new research, upper ocean heating in the equatorial Pacific – a key oceanographic region in Earth’s climate system – is likely to make the East Asian monsoon season wetter.
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Research reveals magma activity beneath Mount Edgecumbe in Alaska, USA
Phys.org
Magma beneath long-dormant Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska has been moving upward through Earth's crust, according to research the Alaska Volcano Observatory rapidly produced using a new method. The new approach at the observatory could lead to earlier detection of volcanic unrest in Alaska.
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