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A Special Message From Scott Burns, President, IAEG
Welcome to our 27th IAEG Connector, the electronic newsletter connecting engineering geologists around the world!
This has been an exciting week! I got to travel to Paris, France, to help the French National Group celebrate their 50th anniversary. It was on Nov. 22! I have a summary below of the event, and I have information on the book that they published. I presented my last keynote as president of IAEG, but this time I spoke French! It was not great French, but it was not English. It is a wonderful group, and below you will find a summary of the event.
Secondly, at the event in Paris we awarded Louis Primel the Marcel Arnould Medal! Instead of awarding it in San Francisco at the Congress, we decided to present the award in the town where Marcel Arnould lived! The ceremony and reception were wonderful, and we have photos! Louis Primel is a wonderful man who well deserved the award!
Third, my good friend Dr. Shu-Ghang Li from China sent me a wonderful site on open groundwater modeling so I am passing that on to you! If you have sites that you want to pass on to engineering geologists around the world, please email them to me (burnss@pdx.edu), and I will put them in the Connector!
This week has been an exciting week for geologists around the world with the landing of the Mars Lander! I have added many news items on landslides and volcanoes too this week!
Enjoy, Scott Burns, President, IAEG
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On Nov. 22, President Scott Burns awarded Louis Primel the Marcel Arnould Medal in Paris at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the French National Group of IAEG. Louis Primel has been active in IAEG for many years, and at one time he acted as secretary general of the organization for 16 years, serving under four presidents! He also started the newsletter (along with President Ricardo Oliviera) and was very active in the early success of the Bulletin. It was awarded in Paris instead of San Francisco because we knew that it would be special to receive the medal in the town where Marcel Arnould was so active with IAEG. The medal is awarded every two years to someone who has been very active with IAEG.
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Louis Primel receives the Marcel Arnould award in Paris.
To the right of him is President Scott Burns and to the far left is past president Ricardo Oliviera.
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 On Nov. 22 November, I had the honor of attending the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the French National Group of IAEG (CFGI: Comite Francais de Geologie de L’Ingenieur et de L’Environement) in Paris. It was held at an absolutely beautiful old building (National Conservatory of the Arts and Meters) in a hall that was constructed in 1847, but has been updated for conferences today.
 It was quite a celebration! They published a book for the celebration (Geologie de l’ingenieur actualite et prespectives) for the occasion! In the book were many articles about the history of engineering geology in France and how the profession operates today.
The day was a succession of speakers talking about the history of engineering geology in France and all of the sectors where engineering geologists are working today: making maps, nuclear power industry, hydrogeology, making metro lines in Paris, aggregates, active mines and reclamation, education programs and expert witness work in the courts. I got a chance to update everyone on the last four years of activity of IAEG and also present a keynote on landslides. Past president Paul Marinos also gave a special talk on tunneling! There were 148 attendees present at this beautiful building for this event, and 15 students also attended the celebration and signed up to become members of the national group!
At the end of the day there was a very nice reception where I got a chance to present the Marcel Arnould Medal to Louis Primel who was secretary general of IAEG for 16 years! To help me present the medal we had past IAEG presidents Ricardo Oliviera and Paul Marinos present.
It was a special day! I would like to thank President Aline Quenez and her committee for such a wonderful celebration! Jean-Alain Fleurisson, our IAEG Treasurer, is also vice president of the national group and was very active during the day!
Scott Burns, President, IAEG, Nov. 22, 2018
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President Anile Quenez addresses the conference on the 50th Anniversary!
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MAGNET is an editable, cloud-powered and data-enabled modeling system built on preprocessed, fully assembled framework data.
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The Lost Freetown Collective
Wednesday, Nov. 28
7-10 p.m. GMT
The Nave, St Ethelburgas
78 Bishopsgate
London
EC2N 4AG
United Kingdom
Freetown, Sierra Leone’s historic capital, stands at a crossroads.
Shortlisted as a UNESCO world heritage site, the peninsula is uniquely vulnerable to climate change. Recent years have seen an epidemic of flooding, deforestation and illegal development — culminating in the 2017 landslide disaster which killed more than 1,000 people and devastated the lives of many more.
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 Geology Applied to Engineering represents a thorough and up-to-date textbook for courses in Applied PhysicaI Geology, Geology for Engineers and Engineering Geology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. It
contains appropriate information for geologists and engineers who are involved in designing and constructing
engineering structures, as all structures are located either on the Earth or in the Earth, or composed of earth
materials. This textbook also provides the fundamentals of subject material included in the Examination for
Professional Licensure of Geologists, a growing need for geologists who work in the public sector.
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The Joint Technical Committee of the FedIGS has organized in Hong Kong the 2nd JTC1 workshop on "Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides."
The workshop, which is co-organized by the Hong Kong Geotechnical Society, the Geotechnical Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will take place at HKUST Dec. 3-5.
As you know, the JTC1 workshops are intended to deal with advanced scientific topics of interest for the geo-engineering community. A goal of these workshops is also to leave room and enhance the activity of young researchers.
The event will include four keynote lectures delivered by outstanding scientists, the Hutchinson Lecture, a Hungr Oration, eight special lectures presented by young researchers and a bechmarking exercise for landslide runout analysis.
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ISEG will organize a three-day National Conference on Prospects and Retrospect in Engineering Geology, Geophysics and Instrumentation at Hyderabad, India, Dec. 3-5 in association with Geological Survey of India on themes of Engineering Geological investigations of various mega civil engineering
works carried out so far and works in progress in the country with a special focus on southern part of the country. As a number of infrastructure projects of national importance are in progress in Southern States, especially
in Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh States, it is apt and pertinent to conduct a National Conference at the moment on related themes at Hyderabad.
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The Korean Society of Engineering Geology
The Korean Society of Engineering Geology and Korea national group of International
Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment would like to present the 12th Asian Regional Conference at Jeju Booyoung Hotel & Resort Sept. 23-27, 2019, in Jeju Island, Korea.
We look forward to welcoming all of you here in Korea.
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We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our session NH3.3/GI4.11/GM7.8/GMPV7.3/SSS13.16 — Rapid mass movements in alpine and volcanic environment. Advances on monitoring, modelling and risk management (co-organized) that will be held at the 2019 EGU General Assembly in Vienna (Austria) from April 7-12, 2019.
Abstract Submission
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Jan. 10, 2019, at 13:00 CET.
Travel Support
Participants who wish to apply for travel support must submit an abstract by Dec. 1. For details, click here.
We are looking forward to receiving your contribution!
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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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The Annual Conference SAGEEP 2019 is in Portland in March 2019 and features a full parallel Geohazards Conference including hazards for manmade structures like dams and levees and also a parallel Shallow Marine and Coastal Geophysics Conference, both of which should be of interest to AEG. AEG participation/contribution would be most welcomed.
The Landslide Blog
In the last few days Planet Labs have succeeded in capturing a gorgeous SkySat (very high resolution) image of the Yarlung Tsangpo landslide dam. As a reminder, this is a large landslide in Tibet, which originated from a rock and ice avalanche on a glacier. The events has occurred on two occasions in recent weeks, both of which have blocked the valley.
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KUSA-TV
Colorado's only active volcano, the Dotsero Crater, is considered a "moderate threat." But it isn't expected to erupt any time soon.
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Discover Magazine
Alaska’s Veniaminof recently had its first eruption in 2018. An eruption plume reached 4.5 kilometers (15,000 feet) up and the plume was tracked spreading southeast for over 150 kilometers (90 miles). Visibility is low in the area of the Alaska Peninsula where Veniaminof is located, but the Perryville FAA webcam caught a glimpse of the dark grey ash plume.
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The Guardian
One person has died and 44 have been injured after a commuter train came off the tracks outside Barcelona.
The six-carriage train, which was carrying 131 passengers, derailed at 6:15 a.m. between the Catalan towns of Terrassa and Manresa due to a landslide, according to the train operator Adif.
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The Landslide Blog
Two videos have been posted to YouTube showing dramatic and interesting roadside failure events. The first appears to be from Nepal. Some reports suggest the location was Lalitpur, Nepal, and the caption indicates that it was associated with “stone mining,” although the failure itself appears to be on a haul road.
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