Geotechnical News - December 2011 - page 12

12 Geotechnical News December 2011
CGS NEWS
Fellowship of the Institute (FEIC):
Jean Hutchinson, Professor, Queen’s
University
Fellowship of the Institute (FEIC):
Wayne Savigny, BGC Engineering
Inc., Co-founder and Principal
CGS Certificates of
Appreciation
The following people were presented
with Certificates of Appreciation for
their individual valued contributions to
the CGS at the conclusion of the 64th
Canadian Geotechnical Conference
and 14th Pan-American Conference
on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical
Engineering.
2011 Retiring Canadian
Geotechnical Society Directors
Chris Hawkes: Chair, Rock Mechanics
Division
Dwayne Tannant: Section Director,
Interior BC Geotechnical Group
Marcia MacLellan: Section Director,
Southern Alberta
Myint Win Bo: Section Director,
Thunder Bay
Tae C. Kim: Section Director, Southern
Ontario
Robert P. Chapuis: Section Director,
Western Quebec
Didier Perret: Section Director, Eastern
Quebec
Adrian Thompson: Section Director,
New Brunswick
Jim Graham: Chair, Heritage
Committee
Tim Keegan: Chair, Transportation
Geotechnique Committee
2011 - Retiring Associate
Editors – Canadian
Geotechnical Journal
Tarek Abdoun
David M. Cruden
Fabrice Emeriault
Hanping Hong
Andrew Whittle
Bruno Bussière
Josée Duchesne
2011 CGS-PanAm Conference -
Organizing Committee
Chair: Andrew Drevininkas
Co-Chair: Giovanni Cascante
Financial Chair: Harry Oussoren
Technical Chair: Tim Newson
Chair Teaching and Learning
Conference: Greg Siemens
Secretary: Paul Dittrich
Member: Jason Lee
Member: Ron Howieson
Member: Lisa Coyne
Member: Robert Ng
Member: Tae C. Kim
Member: Ali Nasseri-Moghaddam
Member: Jordan Lee
Member: Stan Gonsalves
Conference Advisor: R. D. Holtz
Conference Advisor: Sai Vanapalli
Conference Advisor: SuzanneLacasse
Conference Advisor: MichaelBozozuk
2011 - 5th Canadian
Conference on Geotechnique
and Natural Hazards Organizing
Committee
Dwayne Tannant: Chair
Rick Guthrie: Chair, TechnicalProgram
John Cassidy: Technical Committee
Member
John Clague: Technical Committee
Member
Steve Evans: Technical Committee
Member
Corey Froese: Technical Committee
Member
Hamish Weatherly: Technical
Committee Member
2011 - 3rd Canadian Young
Geotechnical Engineersand
Geoscientists Conference
Organizing Committee
Kent Bannister: Co-Chair
Kathy Kalenchuk: Co-Chair
Andrew Bidwell: Treasurer and Local
Organizing Committee
Ariane Locat: Promotions and
Registration
Matt Perras: Technical Program
Maureen Matthew: TechnicalProgram
Michael Van Helden: Memberat Large
Neil Kjelland: Member at Large
Nelson Ferreira: Sponsorship
Santiago Paz: Website
Sidantha Weerakone: Chair, Local
Organizing Committee
Susan Pfister: Promotions and
Registration
Call for Nominations –
The Canadian Geotechnical
Colloquium, 2013
The Canadian Geotechnical
Colloquium is a commissioned work
financially supported by the Canadian
Foundation for Geotechnique (CFG). It
is awarded annually to a member of the
Canadian Geotechnical community.
The purpose of the Colloquium is to
provide information of a particular
interest to Canadian geotechnique and
to provide encouragement to a younger
member of the Society in pursuing
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