IAEG Electronic Newsletter – 2023, Issue No.1
The latest issue of the IAEG Electronic Newsletter for 2023, Issue No.1, is available to download via Dropbox.
Society News
SPARC-QUT Showcase Event
Members are invited to attend the SPARC-QUT research Showcase event, which will be held on the 21st of April, 2023, at QUT Gardens Point Campus from 8.30 am to 5 pm in OJW room (Level 12, S-Block). This is a free event, and please refer to the flyer for more details and registration. SPARC Hub is funded by the ARC (Australian Research Council) and 20 industry partners to undertake some 42 industry-based research projects over five years period (2019–2025). The engine room is run by 39 PhD scholars and many research engineers. While being a think-tank, we undertake cutting-edge innovative research across five research themes related to pavements. The SPARC hub is led by Monash University with the participation of eight Australian universities, including QUT. As SPARC…
Building around existing tunnels — One day seminar
Join the Australasian Tunnelling Society (ATS) and Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) for a one-day seminar on the impacts that building construction has on tunnels. There is an increasing demand for the assessment of the potential impact of new building construction, including new tunnels, on existing tunnels and other underground infrastructure. There are limited resources both on the approvals side and for developers to carry out these assessments and particularly in a timely manner. The purpose of this seminar is for presentations, papers and a panel discussion to provide useful information for the broad range of participants involved. Particularly referring standards and guidelines including applicability of structural and geotechnical assessment criteria. The tunnels involved could be road, rail, sewer, or water…
Short course: “New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring”
On May 8-9 2023, UC Berkeley Faculty and colleagues are offering a 2-day short course on “New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring.” The course was offered the last two years and was very well received with a total of 334 participants from 34 US States and 42 countries. You can review the participants’ feedback about the course here. The May course will update previous versions of the course and provide a review of some of the latest technologies that are about to, or are already impacting the way we design, maintain, or operate geo-infrastructure and the way we manage risk. Technologies to be discussed are sensor-equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or drones), 3D model creation using optical (Structure-from-Motion) and LiDAR, infrared…
ISRM Newsletter No. 61 – March 2023
The latest issue of the ISRM Newsletter is available online, and via the links below:
ISRM Young Rock Engineer Award — Final call for nominations
The ISRM Young Rock Engineer Award is conferred in recognition of one or more of the following achievements in rock engineering practice: A complete description of the nature and objectives of this Award, as well as of the nomination procedure, can be found in the “Guideline for the ISRM Young Rock Engineer Award”. Nominations for the award shall be by the nominee’s National Group, or by some other person or organization acquainted with the nominee’s work. Self-nominations are not accepted. The deadline for submission of nominations for the ISRM Young Rock Engineer Award 2023 is 16 April 2023. More information on the ISRM Young Rock Engineer Award can be found here.
IAEG Electronic Newsletter 2023 Issue No.1, March 2023
The latest issue of the IAEG Electronic Newsletter is available as a PDF download from Dropbox.
249th IAEG Connector
The latest issue of the IAEG Connector newsletter is available to read online, and includes, among other highlights:
IAEG XIV Congress 2023
The 14th IAEG Congress is going to take place on September 21-27th, 2023 in Chengdu, China, attached you will find the No.4 announcement of the 14th IAEG Congress, in another attachment some updates about the Congress have been addressed. Please kindly checked the attachments for details. Update on IAEG XIV Congress No.4 Notification of IAEG XIV Congress The deadline for submitting full paper is May 31st, 2023.
ISSMGE Panel at ASCE Geo-Congress in Los Angeles about the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
Dear colleagues around the world, It will be my honor to take part in this Panel about the recent disaster in Turkey and Syria, that will take part at the ASCE Geo-Congress conference in Los Angeles USA. I like to start, on behalf of the GeoEngineers worldwide, by expressing my sincere condolences and sympathy to the victims and their families and loved ones. I was personally shaking for more than a minute with my daughter on the 16th floor in Beirut, and it was terrifying. It’s time for the entire world to shake up and see as scientists how to make our homes safer. This is not a local event, it’s a natural disaster and hazard that the entire world…