This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here December 7, 2022 To view email in web browser, click here. Special Welcome Message from Scott Burns Welcome to the 233rd IAEG Connector, the electronic newsletter connecting environmental and engineering geologists around the world! IAEG has joined IUGS in its major project on Deep Time Digital Earth. Professor Hengxing LAN of China represented us in Paris this past month at one of the first major conferences on this topic! We thank Professor LAN for this wonderful presentation. We are back to having a photo in the IAEG Connector. We will have two photos (this week and next) from Joao Paulo Monticelli from Brazil! I have help each week from Joanne Hershon of Multiview Inc. in the United States in putting together the weekly IAEG Connector. I would like to say thank you to her for all of her help. The company gives its employees two weeks off in December for the holidays so our last two issues of the IAEG Connector for 2022 will be a summary of the popularity of the articles in the IAEG Connector over the past year - what did we download the most. We will be back to normal publications in January. There were lots of news items this week around the world. There are the exciting volcanic eruptions from Mauna Loa in Hawaii and also Mt. Semeru in Indonesia. Also, there was a large earthquake in Java, Indonesia. Plus, there were deadly landslides in Colombia and Cameroon in Africa. Enjoy Scott Burns, now Past Past President, IAEG, and editor, IAEG Connector .IAEG NEWS Prof. Hengxing LAN of China (Chair of Commission 37) represents IAEG at Deep-Time Digital Earth (DDE) forum in Paris, November 9, 2022 IAEG DDE (Deep-time Digital Earth) was launched in 2019 by IUGS (International Union of Geological Sciences) as it's first "Big Science" initiative. IAEG is a member of IUGS and a founding member of DDS. The aim of DDE is to aggregate global geoscience big data, promote data driven geoscience discoveries, and realize a paradigm revolution in geoscience research and industrial applications. The main achievements of the DDE Big Science Program meeting in Paris, France was to summarize its achievements in the past three years and to have the global launch of the first version of the DDE public infrastructure platform, "Deep-time.org". Professor Hengxing LAN of China is an IAEG member and chair of Commision 37 of IAEG. He represented IAEG at the meeting and presented a landslide susceptibility map of Africa as part of a large presentation on "Six Maps of Africa". Many thanks from IAEG to Professor LAN for representing us! READ MORE Camelo Hill Geomorphosite from the Corumbatai Geopark Project, city of Analandia in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil This classic cuesta escarpment was the topic of the dissertation of Joao Paulo Monticelli from Sao Paulo, Brazil. They are developing the site as a geopark. The geology of this cuesta is sandstone of the Botucata Formation, Parana Basin. Many thanks to Joao Paulo for the photo! He will have another photo next week in the IAEG Connector. Schedule for December IAEG Dec. 7 - Regular issue Dec. 14 - Regular issue Dec. 21 - Top 11-20 stories from 2022 Dec. 21 - Top 1-10 stories for 2022 Jan. 4 - Regular issue 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 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 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 Landslide in Colombia kills three people, traps 20, as La Niña wreaks more havoc ABC A landslide has engulfed a road in Colombia, killing three people and leaving about 20 trapped in the mud. Crews spent Sunday, local time, searching for people riding on a bus and a motorcycle who were caught up in the disaster in a remote area Pueblo Rico in north-west Colombia. READ MORE Landslide kills at least 14 attending funeral in Cameroon capital CNN A landslide in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde on Sunday killed at least 14 people who were attending a funeral, the region’s governor said. “We are carrying the corpses to the mortuary of the central hospital, while the search for other people, or corpses, is still ongoing,” Naseri Paul Bea, governor of Cameroon’s Centre region, told media at the scene. READ MORE Hawaiian and Yellowstone volcanism comparison USGS Volcanoes With Mauna Loa erupting, YVO scientist-in-charge Mike Poland points out parallels and differences between Hawaiian & Yellowstone volcanism, and talks about the latest Yellowstone earthquakes, trends in ground deformation & Steamboat Geyser activity. Dec 1, 2022 update. READ MORE Magnitude 6.1 quake hits Indonesia's West Java Reuters A quake of 6.1 magnitude hit Indonesia's West Java area on Saturday, the country's geophysics agency BMKG said, sending people running out of buildings. The quake has no tsunami potential, the agency said. It was felt in capital Jakarta, around 200 km from the epicentre. READ MORE Thousands evacuated after Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupts CNN Indonesia’s Mount Semeru erupted on Sunday, blanketing roads and homes in volcanic ash and prompting evacuations of nearly 2,000 residents in East Java province, according to authorities in the country. A statement Sunday from Indonesia’s disaster management agency said no injuries or deaths have so far been reported and evacuees have taken shelter in public facilities, including village halls and schools. More than 20,000 face masks have been handed out to mitigate respiratory health risks from volcanic ash, it added. READ MORE Northeast Rift Zone Mauna Loa — Fissure 3 eruption, Northeast Rift Zone USGS Live Image of fissure 3 erupting on the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa volcano. Disclaimer: The webcams are operational 24/7 and faithfully record the dark of night if there are no sources of incandescence or other lights. READ MORE OSU study finds possible link between climate, volcanism and ocean health KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2 There is so much we still don’t know about our oceans and how they relate to climate. However, expeditions to the North Pacific by Oregon State University researchers from the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences continue to give us answers, the most recent related to volcanoes. READ MORE What made Indonesia's recent earthquake so deadly? Smithsonian Magazine Indonesia is no stranger to earthquakes of this size. It lies in the Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire, where several tectonic plates collide. Where moving tectonic plates grind together, pressure can build up. An earthquake occurs when the rocks break or slip by each other, releasing energy that shakes the surface. 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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