108th IAEG Connector
New Bulletin Titles and Link to first YEG Webinar — the latest issue of the IAEG Connector newsletter is available online.
Society News
Honorary Life Members
Dear Members, I am delighted to be sending you this email to announce the award of honorary life membership of the AGS to 15 exceptional geotechnical professionals. These individuals have each played a significant part in supporting the geotechnical profession in Australia. Their contributions and accomplishments are presented in the June issue of the Australian Geomechanics Journal, so look out for this in your mailbox in the next few weeks. Also presented in the June AG Journal is an explanation of the honorary life membership criteria and process. The Inaugural AGS Honorary Life Members are: Professor Harry Poulos Emeritus Professor John Carter Max Ervin Andrew Leventhal Professor Ted Brown Professor Mark Jaksa Professor Mark Randolph Dr Peter Mitchell Dr Bill…
Incredible Quick Clay Landslide in Alta, Norway
The latest issue of the IAEG Connector newsletter, is available online.
ISSMGE News & Information Circular June 2020
The latest ISSMGE newsletter is available online.
104th IAEG Connector
Dam Failure in Michigan, USA — the latest issue of the IAEG Connector Newsletter is available online.
Members Fees 2020
The last few months have seen a massive disruption to our lives, due to direct and indirect effects of Covid-19. I hope that you have adjusted OK to working (and schooling) from home and other changes to your routine. Whilst it is clear that while temporary closure of many industries may be starting to ease, the Australian economy will take time to recover. The AGS Executive appreciates that many AGS members may be receiving a reduced household income and that employers may be looking to take cost saving measures during this period. With this in mind, we have made the decision to offer our full individual membership a discount of approximately 25% on the annual AGS membership fees for the…
Bright Spark Lecture Award
To promote young members of the ISSMGE to play a major role in various international and regional conferences, the President of ISSMGE, Professor Charles Ng, created the Bright Spark Award for promising young geotechnical engineers/academics to deliver keynote and invited lectures at these conferences. The Young Member Presidential Group (YMPG) and the ISSMGE wish to invite all ISSMGE member societies to nominate their most promising young geotechnical engineers as candidates to speak at a keynote session at the 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Sydney, Australia in September 2021. Two young engineers will be chosen. They will have the opportunity to present their work as the recipient of the ISSMGE Bright Spark Lecture Award. The awardees…
ISSMGE Circular — May 2020
The May issue of the ISSMGE Circular, with details of seven full courses available through the ISSMGE “Virtual University” is now available online.
102nd IAEG Connector Newsletter
Special Online IAEG Symposium on Asbestos, May 13-14, 2020 — The 102nd IAEG Connector Newsletter is available online.
International Symposium on Construction Resources and Environmentally Sustainable Technology (CREST 2020)
The International Symposium on Construction Resources and Environmentally Sustainable Technology (CREST 2020), which was originally scheduled to be held during March 10-12, 2020 at Fukuoka, Japan, has been postponed until March 2021. The organizing committee has decided to use this setback as an opportunity by providing chances to those, who could not submit papers previously, and, therefore, invite a new call for extended abstracts and full papers. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].