This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here November 30, 2022 To view email in web browser, click here. Special Welcome Message from Scott Burns Welcome to the 232nd IAEG Connector, the electronic newsletter connecting environmental and engineering geologists around the world! This week we have no major IAEG organizational news to present, but we have plenty of very interesting geo-disaster news from around the world! The world's largest active volcano, Mauna Loa Volcano in Hawaii (a large shield volcano), has become active after a month of earthquake activity! The lava is primarily found at the top of the volcano right now. Other volcanic activity has been noted in Mt. Edgecumbe in Alaska and Taal Volcano in the Philippines. A large 7.0 earthquake caused some damage also in the Solomon Islands, and a landslide occurred on the Italian island of Ischia. Enjoy Scott Burns, now Past Past President, IAEG, and editor, IAEG Connector .IAEG NEWS Five IAEG Sponsored Conferences Approved by IAEG Council in September, 2022 IAEG At the yearly IAEG Council meeting via Zoom in September, the Council approved five national group's proposals for regional meetings over the next three years. They are listed below with dates. Many thanks to the national groups for their proposals: 1) 14th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (November 6-8, 2023) 2) 2nd Latin American Regional Conference of IAEG in Pucon, Chile (November 13-15, 2024) 3) 4th European Regional Conference of IAEG in Dubrovnik, Croatia (October 2-6, 2024) 4) 4th African Regional Conference of IAEG in Botswana (middle of 2024) 5) 15th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG in Dhaka, Bangladesh (November 27-28, 2025) 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 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). LEARN MORE 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! 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! APPLY HERE 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/ 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: The link for submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iaeg2022 For further information, please visit the conference website: https://iaeg2022.org/ For the Notification, please refer to https://mcusercontent.com/a9fb57846c769f467423ee6c9/files/d7e88efe-be59-02e3-0ad1-9904b279174a/Notification_IAEG_XIV_CONGRESS_2023_.pdf 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 Latin America ), Doug Johnson (VP for Australia/New Zealand), and Scott Burns (Past President). Read the Bylaws here. 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 READ MORE 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! 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”. REGISTER NOW 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. List of Articles in the Bulletin of Engineering Geology for the past five months IAEG Click here to read August 2022. Click here to read September 2022. READ MORE 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 Electronic newsletter number 3 for 2022 from IAEG IAEG Four times a year, the home office of IAEG puts out a comprehensive newsletter for IAEG. Click on the link below to get this latest edition. READ MORE 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. READ MORE 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. 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. READ MORE .LINKS TO NEWSLETTERS OF OUR SISTER SOCIETIES 'Sister Society' Newsletter Links IGS (Geosynthetics) ISSMGE (ISSMGE News & Information Circular) IUGS E-Bulletin #189 IAPG - Geoethics Geosynthetics Magazine International Geosynthetics Society .GEOLOGY NEWS Photo and video chronology - Mauna Loa, Hawaii - Nov. 29, 2022 USGS Mauna Loa's Northeast Rift Zone eruption continues. No property is at risk currently. There is a visible gas plume from the erupting fissure fountains and lava flows. A view of fissure 4 erupting on the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa, taken at approximately 8 a.m. HST November 29, 2022. Fissure 4 formed at approximately 7:30 p.m. HST November 28, and this morning the fountains there were 5-10 m (16-33 ft) tall. USGS photo by F. Trusdell. READ MORE Quake rescue efforts in Indonesia focus on landslide-hit villages Al Jazeera Traumatised relatives are awaiting news of loved ones missing after an earthquake hit the town of Cianjur in Indonesia’s West Java on Monday, unleashing landslides thought to have buried nearby villages. More heavy machinery was deployed to clear the landslides on Wednesday with the death toll from the magnitude 5.6 quake reaching 268. More than 150 people are missing. READ MORE Landslide on Italian island of Ischia kills at least 8 CNN At least eight people have been confirmed dead after a landslide hit the Italian island of Ischia on Saturday, damaging buildings and obliterating transport infrastructure in its wake. Five people are still missing, the governor of the Campania Prefecture office in southwest Italy told CNN Monday. READ MORE Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano begins eruption, alert level raised - USGS Reuters An eruption began in the summit caldera of Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, on Sunday night, the U.S. Geological Service's volcanic activity service said. "At this time, lava flows are contained within the summit area and are not threatening downslope communities," the notification said. READ MORE Solomon Islands: 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Pacific nation BBC An earthquake of 7.0 magnitude has struck the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, near the south-west region of Malango. No injuries or deaths have been reported yet, but people in the capital Honiara reported significant shaking and tremors for around 20 seconds. Amid immediate warnings of a tsunami, the prime minister's office advised locals to move to higher ground. However, the islands' meteorological service later dropped the warning. READ MORE After centuries lying dormant, this Alaska volcano is once again showing signs of life CBC After centuries of inactivity, a volcano in the Alaskan panhandle has awakened from dormancy. Scientists have traced a swarm of minor earthquakes around Sitka, Alaska, in 2020 to magma activity below Mount Edgecumbe (L'úx Shaa), around 450 kilometres northwest of Prince Rupert, B.C. READ MORE Diffuse CO2 degassing precursors of the January 2020 eruption of Taal volcano, Philippines From Scientific Reports Taal Volcano Island is the scenario of powerful eruptions and is the largest volcanic threat to the Philippines. The thirty-three recorded eruptions of Taal Volcano Island from 1572 to 1977 include phreatic to phreatomagmatic eruptions. Six of the 33 known eruptions since 1572 have resulted in fatalities1,2 and today several million people live within a 20-km radius. READ MORE Researchers track earthquakes across Colorado, USA, warn of possible massive one CBS News 140 years ago, Colorado had its biggest earthquake ever with a magnitude of 6.6. Researchers say another massive earthquake could cost the state billions in repairs. With Colorado's biggest earthquake rocking across multiple states, it is unlikely that an earthquake of that magnitude would occur but researchers believe it could still happen today. READ MORE Science Headlines IAEG Check out what's going on in the world of geological science: Tropical forests benefit less from elevated atmospheric CO2 than thought (UT News) High-tech metals germanium and gallium from the deep sea? (Lab Manager) 4-billion-year-old crystals offer clues to when plate tectonics began (Tech Explorist) .CALENDAR OF EVENTS Date Event Location September 2023 IAEG Congress Chengdu, China November 6-8, 2023 14th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia November 13-15, 2024 2nd Latin American Regional Conference of IAEG Pucon, Chile October 2-6, 2024 4th European Regional Conference of IAEG Dubrovnik, Croatia middle of 2024 4th African Regional Conference of IAEG Botswana November 27-28, 2025 15th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG Dhaka, Bangladesh   IAEG Connector E-News Connect with IAEG | Privacy Policy Hailey Golden, Director of Publishing, Multiview, 469-420-2630 | Download media kit Joanne Hershon, Content Editor, Multiview, 469-420-2605| Contribute news International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment IAEG, c/o Dr. Scott Burns, burnss@pdx.edu, Portland State University, PO Box 751    Portland, OR 97207   503-725-3389  |  Contact Us  |  www.iaeg.info Click here to unsubscribe.  Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. 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