www.geotechnicalnews.com
              
            
            
              
                Geotechnical News • December 2012
              
            
            
              
                
                  23
                
              
            
            
              
                GEO-INSTITUTE NEWS
              
            
            
              Geotechnical Engineers’ conference
            
            
              held in Romania last September?
            
            
              …You would if you were a ISSMGE
            
            
              member and kept up with geotechnical
            
            
              world news. Join ISSMGE today.
            
            
              ASCE members: Your $15 ISSMGE
            
            
              membership is
            
            
              
                in addition
              
            
            
              to your
            
            
              ASCE and G-I membership. Log
            
            
              in to your member account at or
            
            
              contact ASCE Member Services
            
            
              at 1.800.548.2723 to renew your
            
            
              ISSMGE membership. 
            
            
              Geo-Institute members, but not an
            
            
              ASCE member? Your ISSMGE
            
            
              membership is included in your G-I
            
            
              membership. If you haven’t renewed
            
            
              your G-I membership for 2012,
            
            
              contact ASCE Member Services at
            
            
              1.800.548.2723.
            
            
              Not a member of the Geo-Institute?
            
            
              ASCE members can add the G-I as
            
            
              a primary or secondary Institute of
            
            
              Interest. Discover the benefits of G-I
            
            
              membership on the G-I website at
            
            
              
                www.asce.org/geo
              
            
            
              
                Students
              
            
            
              
                A message from the G-I
              
            
            
              Keep up with G-I news and relevant
            
            
              geo information by following the G-I
            
            
              on Facebook and Twitter
            
            
              It’s not too soon to start thinking about
            
            
              the G-I’s 2013 Geo-Challenges: the
            
            
              GeoWall, GeoPrediction, and Geo-
            
            
              Poster challenges that will take place
            
            
              during the 2013 Geo-Congress in San
            
            
              Diego, CA, March 3-6, 2013. Check
            
            
              the G-I  website for upcoming details
            
            
              or contact Jennifer Canning at
            
            
              
                jcan-
              
            
            
              
                ning@asce.org.
              
            
            
              
                Student internship opportunities
              
            
            
              Looking for as internship opportunity?
            
            
              Then explore the positions listed on
            
            
              the ASCE website at http://careers.
            
            
              asce.org/jobs#/results/keywords=inte
            
            
              rnship&resultsPerPage=12/1,false to
            
            
              help further your career path. Come
            
            
              back often since new positions are
            
            
              added all the time.
            
            
              The Colorado Chapter of the Geo-
            
            
              Institute, the Rocky Mountain Section
            
            
              of the Association of Environmental
            
            
              & Engineering Geologists (AEG), and
            
            
              the Colorado Association of Geotech-
            
            
              nical Engineers (CAGE) is hosting a
            
            
              one-day geotechnical seminar with the
            
            
              theme of the 2012 seminar “GeoChal-
            
            
              lenges: Rising to Geotechnical Chal-
            
            
              lenges in Colorado.” The seminar will
            
            
              focus on case histories of challenging
            
            
              geotechnical projects in Colorado and
            
            
              the Rocky Mountain Region. 
            
            
              The papers accepted for the seminar
            
            
              will again be published by ASCE as
            
            
              a Geotechnical Practice Publication
            
            
              (GPP) and distributed at the seminar.
            
            
              Students will be awarded 10 PDHs
            
            
              (Professional Development Hours) for
            
            
              attendance at the 3- day event.
            
            
              To Register:
            
            
              
                www.central-pa-asce-
              
            
            
              
                geotech.org/registration.php
              
            
            
              
                Geo-Institute Annual
              
            
            
              
                Congress Calendar
              
            
            
              2013 Geo-Congress
            
            
              
                “Stability and Performance of Slopes
              
            
            
              
                and Embankments”
              
            
            
              March 3-6, 2013
            
            
              Town & Country Resort
            
            
              San Diego, CA
            
            
              
                www.asce.org/geocongress
              
            
            
              2014 Geo-Congress 2014
            
            
              February 23-26, 2014
            
            
              Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
            
            
              Atlanta, GA
            
            
              
                
                  Editor
                
              
            
            
              
                Linda R. Bayor, IOM, Manager
              
            
            
              
                Geo-Institute of ASCE
              
            
            
              
                1801 Alexander Bell Drive
              
            
            
              
                Reston, VA 20190-4400
              
            
            
              
                Tel: 703-295-6162
              
            
            
              
                Fax: 703-295-6351
              
            
            
              
                email:lbayer@asce.org