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A Special Message From Scott Burns, President, IAEG
Welcome to our 28th IAEG Connector, the electronic newsletter connecting engineering geologists around the world!
We had another exciting week geologically around the world with two large earthquakes in Alaska (USA) of 7.0 and New Caledonia of 7.5 magnitude. Plus, it was released that Teheran, Iran, is subsiding at a very fast rate because of groundwater withdrawal. See the news items below!
I would like to introduce another new vice president for Asia to you, Professor Tang Huiming of China. He is not only a professor of engineering geology, but also chair of the department and Vice President of the China University, which is one of China’s most prestigious universities in our field! See his photo and biography below. All new officers start on January 1, 2019.
I would like to congratulate Dr. Eng. Hany Farouk Shehata and his staff for a successful second GeoEast2018 International Congress in Giza, Egypt, in front of the famous Pyramids! We have been advertising the conference weekly in the Connector. It was held from Nov. 24-28 and the theme was “Sustainable Civil Infrastructures." Some IAEG members attended this great conference where there were 900 experts from 71 different countries. They had 800 abstracts, 250 presentations and 300 accepted full papers that were published by Springer in 16 volumes! Congratulations!
Enjoy, Scott Burns, President, IAEG
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Vice president spotlight — Dr. Tang Huiming
Dr. Tang Huiming is the Chair Professor of Engineering Geology and vice president of China University of Geosciences, the most prestigious University in Geoscience field in China. He is an outstanding Engineering Geologist in China, and has been enrolled in this field for over 35 years. He is specialized in prediction and control of geohazards and engineering geological modeling. He has been awarded some important national awards, i.e., National Teaching Master Award, and the national highest level prize in the field of Geological Sciences — Li Sukuang Prize, etc. He has presided over several national and sino-foreign cooperative research projects, such as National Key Basic Research Program of China ("973" Project), National Key Research and Development Program of China (NKRD Program) and Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (K-NSFC). He has participated in the scientific research works of a number of large-scale projects of water conservancy, hydropower, road, bridges, tunnels and high slopes, achieving fruitful results in the application of geological disaster prevention and engineering rock mass stability evaluation.
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IAEG
 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.
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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IAEG
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.
IAEG
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!
LiveScience
The ground is shifting under Iran's capital, Tehran, home to approximately 15 million people and the biggest city by population in western Asia. High-resolution satellite images recently revealed that in some places, the metropolis of the Middle East is sinking about 10 inches (25 centimeters) per year.
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The Landslide Blog
The M=7.0 Alaska earthquake Nov. 30 was sufficiently large to trigger some slope failures, even though it was comparatively deep. Such an earthquake would be expected to generate shaking over a large area, but probably with reasonably modest peak ground accelerations.
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Eos
Scientists have known for a long time that various types of rock conduct current differently and that these differences are even more pronounced as the temperatures and pressures increase farther beneath Earth’s surface. They also know that unusual changes in electrical conductivity can signal activity down below, like migrating magma or a release of trapped fluids.
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Earth.com
The seismic waves began on the morning of Nov. 11 near the tiny French island of Mayotte, off the southeastern coast of Africa.
They were so powerful, instrumentation picked up the tremors all over the world — Kenya, Chile, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada. For 20 minutes, the seismic waves registered on earthquake-detecting equipment around the world.
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Los Angeles Times
Buildings cracked. Roads collapsed. People were injured by falling debris.
But for all the ferocity of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck the AnchorageAlaska, area recently, the temblor did not cause the catastrophic damage or loss of life that have occurred from even smaller quakes both around the world and in California.
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The Atlantic
To the untrained eye, the rock would have looked like any other. But when Mohamed Sahnouni pulled it out of the ground in the summer of 2006, he immediately recognized it as a chopper: a palm-size tool deliberately flaked to create a sharp cutting edge. It looked exactly like something from the so-called Oldowan culture, a style of stone tools that existed between 1.9 and 2.6 million years ago, predate Homo sapiens, and had mainly come from East Africa.
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