This week we want to highlight the special announcement from our president about our 60th anniversary of IAEG! That is very exciting! There have been many geological news items from around the world, too. We had a tailings dam failure in chile, a sinkhole in a national park in the United States, and a meteotsunami in Malta.
This week we have a special announcement from our president about our 60th anniversary of IAEG! That is very exciting! There have been many geological news items from around the world, too. We had a very large landslide in the Teton Mountains of the United States and also the Swiss are detecting landslides with seismic waves.
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This week we announce the next African regional conference for Africa and a re-opening of nominations for the Richard Wolters Award. We are excited to again have photos from members around the world of projects that they are working on. This week we have two photos from Croatia From Dr. Iris Bostjancic of the Croatian Geological Survey. There have been many geological news items from around the world, too. The latest volcanic eruption from Iceland, groundwater depletion from Korea, and the largest lithium producers in the world are discussed.
The IAEG Council meeting will be in October in Croatia. Reports and attendance lists are due to our Secretary General. There have been many geodisasters around the world, too. The worst disaster was a landslide in Papua New Guinea that killed over 2000 people. There were also debris flows in France and a landslide in Turkey. The potential eruption of the supervolcano, Campi Flegrei Volcano, in Italy is also mentioned.
Our Executive Council meets yearly to discuss IAEG business. They just met in Athens, Greece and have produced a short video to show what they did while there. This is a very important meeting every year. Second, we are starting a new tradition from YEG. We will have a short article published every month by a YEG member on a case history. In this issue, we have an article from India written by Shubham Chaudhary. There have been many geodisasters around the world, too. Indonesia has had the eruption of Mt. Ibu and also many mudslides in the western part of the country. Also, we report a couple of landslides from the USA.
One of the worst climatic tragedies in the history of Brazil has developed this past week in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and our national group of Brazil is helping with the many problems resulting from rainfall five times what is normal.
The 2nd Australia and NZ Geosynthetic Conference is going to be held in Melbourne, Victoria, from 9 to 11 July 2024. The theme of the conference is 'Advances in Geosynthetics.'
This week we have the attachment to the newest Electronic Newsletter for IAEG that is done by our home office. There is so much information! Be sure to download it! There is also an announcement of extending the deadline for the nominations for our major awards for IAEG. We encourage you to nominate some members for the awards. On the news front we have items on mudflows in Kyrgyzstan, a highway collapse in China and the energy potential of Mozambique.
The IAEG 2024 Newsletter, Issue No. 1 is available to download.
