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Special Welcome Message from Scott Burns
Welcome to the 230th IAEG Connector, the electronic newsletter connecting environmental and engineering geologists around the world!
We have an active YEG (Young Engineering Geologists) group, and they have re-elected their leader, Dr.Stratis Karatanellis, again. Congratulations to Stratis!
This is a week of many meetings and congresses! We have the Glossop Medal lecture in London, EGCON in India, and the Life of the Mine (virtual) all coming up!
We continue to have many geo-disasters around the world too! We continue to get images from the Williamson mine tailings disaster in Tanzania, more landslides in Colombia, and three volcanoes (Alaska, Antarctica, and Tonga) being mentioned this week!
Enjoy
Scott Burns, now Past Past President, IAEG, and editor, IAEG Connector
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.IAEG NEWS
Stratis Karantanellis is Re-elected as YEG Chair
IAEG
Dear IAEG President and distinguished board members,
I would like to inform you that after the internal elections in the YEG board, I have been re-elected (8 votes from 9, as self voting is not possible) as YEG Chair for the upcoming period with all the YEG members outlining the work that it has been done the last 4 years. YEG will continue working on creative and eventful actions to further enhance engineering geology and its applications around the world following IAEG ethics and rules. In the following days we will send you our proposals and agenda with our prompt actions for the next years. In order to accomplish our objectives and succeed to enlarge our community, we will need your active collaboration as IAEG ExCom. Once again, on behalf of the YEG board, I would like to deeply thank you for your time and consideration.
Kind regards,
Stratis Karantanellis
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Professor John Harrison presents this years Glossop Medal Lecture in London, November 23, 2022
The Engineering Group of the Geological Society
One of the world's most prestigious lectures in engineering geology is the annual Glossop Medal lecture given at the Royal Institute in London, England. This year's lecture will be given by Professor John Harrison entitled "The Role of Engineering Geology in the Energy Transition", and it will be on November 23, 2022 at the Royal Institute.
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Save the Date: Next International Symposium on Landslide (ISL2024) and Rock Slope Stability (RSS2024) merged
International Symposium on Landslide
The 14th ISL and RSS 2024 will be held in Chambéry, France, from 8 to 12 July 2024.
The choice of the venue offers an ideal setting for discussing the science and engineering in a relaxed atmosphere around the beautiful Alpine landscapes.
Focusing on the general topic: “Landslides across the scales: from the fundamentals to engineering applications”, the event will be placed under the sponsorship of JTC1 (Joint Technical Committee of FedICGS on Natural Slopes and Landslides).
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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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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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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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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
El Molino: A very large landslide in Colombia
The Landslide Blog
On 10 November 2022 a large landslide occurred at El Molino in Villa Caro, Norte de Santander in Colombia. Landslides are increasingly common in Colombia, but this is an unusually large event.
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The impact of the Williamson Diamond Mine tailings breach
The Landslide Blog
Dave Petley writes: The high resolution Planet Labs SkySat satellite image of the Williamson Diamond Mine tailings dam breach, which I featured last week, also shows the impact of the mine waste on downstream communities. This image shows the inundated and overtopped dam downstream of the tailings storage facility.
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At least 1 death in Colombia due to heavy rains in Bogota
MSN
At least one person has died in Colombia as a result of heavy rains in several regions of Cudinamarca, in the center of the country, which have caused landslides, falling trees and floods. As reported by the authorities and picked up by the local media 'El Tiempo', a total of nine people had to be rescued in the same locality due to a landslide in a road with the same name, La Calera.
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A dormant volcano is waking up after sleeping for more than 800 years
BGR
An ancient and dormant volcano is waking up after nearly 800 years. The volcano, known as Mt. Edgecumbe, is found just 15 miles west of Sitka, Alaska. Scientists believe that the massive volcano has been dormant for around 800 to 900 years. Now, though, it appears to be waking up, which could spell disaster for nearby towns.
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Antarctic volcano: A mountain of terror?
SciTechDaily
Mount Terror might sound like a place to avoid. But this Antarctic volcano is not as terrifying as its name implies. From a geological perspective, the mountain itself is relatively benign. Located on the eastern side of Ross Island, it is a shield volcano that consists of numerous pyroclastic cones and lava domes.
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Highest-ever recorded volcanic plume: The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption
SciTechDaily
A new analysis led by Oxford University researchers has shown that the devastating Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption in January 2022 created the tallest volcanic plume ever recorded. At 57 km high, the ash cloud generated by the eruption is also the first to have been observed in the mesosphere, a layer of the atmosphere more commonly associated with shooting stars.
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Met Office predicts severe flooding across England in February
The Guardian
Severe flooding caused by La Niña is predicted for February despite England remaining in drought, the Met Office has said.
Two-thirds of people at risk of flooding were unaware of the situation, the government said on Monday, as it embarked on an awareness campaign. This average cost to a flooded household is £30,000, figures show.
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.CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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IAEG Congress |
Chengdu, China
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