The latest issue of the IAEG Connector newsletter is available to read online. This week we have a new YEG article for the newsletter! Many thanks to all of our students who have contributed in the past and in this issue. News items include Norway’s offshore CO2 storage, an earthquake in Crete and a landslide in the Ivory Coast!
AGTRE is running a two-day workshop in Brisbane to raise awareness of the benefits of using a reliability-based framework in design.
The latest issue of the IAEG Connector is available online.
This week we announce a wonderful rock engineering and engineering geology symposium in Taiwan! We also have news items of rockfalls in Spain and landslides in Peru. We have lots of conferences coming up and they are listed: The Netherlands, Brazil, India, Nepal and Africa.
This week we highlight our upcoming regional conference in Africa in September. We also list free access to selected BOEG papers in response to the Myanmar Earthquake recently. We have some good news items too. We have lots of conferences coming up and they are listed: The Netherlands, Brazil, India, Nepal and Africa.
This week we have some photos of the very successful lecture tour of Australia and New Zealand by our president, Dr. Vassilis Marinos! We have some good news items: eruption of a volcano in Costa Rica, overpumping of groundwater in Brazil, and groundwater problems in Iraq.
Lots of geodisasters this week around the world. We had a subway collapse in Korea and news items from Italy, India, the Caspian Sea and South Africa. We hope to get photos and a report from President Marinos's trip to Australia and New Zealand.
The 3rd International Conference on Geomechanics and Geoenvironmental Engineering (iCGMGE-2025) will bring together leading academics, researchers, industry professionals, and graduate students to share cutting-edge research, foster collaborations, and address global challenges in geomechanics and geoenvironmental engineering.
The week's news has been dominated by the large earthquake in Myanmar. Our President Marinos writes a special response to our friends in Asia and their recovery. We have a new YEG article too! The world has been active geologically this past week with volcanic eruptions in Iceland and Indonesia and a pending one in Alaska (U.S.). We have landslide reports from China and Kentucky in the United States. Plus, we report on a Bangkok, Thailand building collapsing from the Myanmar earthquake.
The week's news has been dominated by the large earthquake in Myanmar of Magnitude 7.7. But there have been many more geodisasters in Yosemite National Park (U.S.), Indonesia, potential landslides in India, a review of the world's freshwater supply, and lithium mining and its effects on the groundwater in South America.
