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and Ian D. Moore. “Response of a
polyvinyl chloride water pipe when
transverse to an underlying pipe re-
placed by pipe bursting.“ (Vol. 46
(11) pp. 1258-1266).
G. Geoffrey Meyerhof Award:
Adel
M. Hanna, Concordia University,
Civil and Environ. Engineering,
Montreal, QC
Thomas Roy Award:
Réjean Couture,
Geological Survey of Canada, Ot-
tawa, ON
Roger J. E. Brown Award:
Lukas U.
Arenson, BGC Engineering, Van-
couver, BC
John A. Franklin Award:
Not sched-
uled for 2010
Geoenvironmental Award:
Ernest
K. Yanful, Geotechnical Research
Centre, Univ. of Western Ontario,
London, ON
Geosynthetics Award:
Richard W.I.
Brachman, Dept. Civil Engineer-
ing, Queens University, Kingston,
ON
Robert N. Farvolden Award:
(Joint
award with IAH-CNC) Robert O.
van Everdingen, University of Cal-
gary, Calgary, AB
Graduate Student Paper Award:
1st
Prize Saman Zarnani, “Applica-
tion of EPS Geofoam for Seismic
Buffers in Rigid Retaining Walls”
Department of Civil Engineering,
Queen’s University, Kingston; Ad-
visor, Dr. Richard Bathurst.
2nd Prize:
Michael Van Helden, “En-
abling Probabalistic Modelling in
Mainstream Practice Through Im-
proved Simulation Techniques”
Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg;
Advisor, Dr. James Blatz.
Undergraduate Student Report
(Individual)
1st Prize:
Isaac Dennett, “Evaluation
of Soil Nails for Riverbank Sta-
bilization” Department of Civil
Engineering, University of Mani-
toba, Winnipeg; Advisor, Dr. James
Blatz.
2nd Prize:
Eric Wolinksky, “Applica-
tion of Digital Signal Processing to
the Measurement of Landslide Ac-
celeration Using PIV Image Analy-
sis” Civil Engineering, Queen’s
University, Kingston; Advisor, Dr.
Andy Take.
Undergraduate Student Report
(Group)
1st Prize:
Catherine Hynes, Kevin
Mathison, Charlie Patrick, and
Matthew Weisbrod, “Design of
Landslide Mitigation Alternatives
for Control Section 56-02-40” De-
partment of Civil & Geological
Engineering, University of Sas-
katchewan, Saskatoon; Advisor,
Dr. Jitendra Sharma.
2nd Prize:
Jennifer Brown and Can-
dice Cooney, “Mapping Heat
Transfer of Gas and Leachate Pro-
duction at Closed Landfill Sites”
Department of Geological Sci-
ences and Geological Engineering,
Queen’s University, Kingston; Ad-
visor, Mr. Steven Rose.
Canadian
Foundation
for
Geotechnique National Graduate
Scholarship:
Nelson
Ferriera,
University of Manitoba
