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Geotechnical News • June 2013
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GEOTECHNICAL INSTRUMENTATION NEWS
Linkedin
www.linkedin.com has numerous
Facebook-type networking groups,
allowing us to initiate discussions and
to post comments. The following are
the most relevant for us:
• Geotechnical and Structural Instru-
mentation & Monitoring
• Geotechnical & Structural Instru-
mentation
• M.I.T. Monitoring of Infrastructure
& Terrain
The first of the three is the most active,
and currently has several worthwhile
topics.
Geotechnical Instrumentation
News (GIN)
For completeness, I should include
GIN in this article:
www.geotechnicalnews.com/instru-
mentation_news.php. As you’re likely
to know by now, there’s an index of
articles that are on the web, more
than 100 downloadable articles, and
guidelines on how to submit articles to
me for future GINs. As I keep say-
ing—please help to keep this going by
sending me an abstract—details are in
the guidelines.
Table 2: Manufacturers of specialized products, cont’d
Company Name and Country
Products
Website
Turner Designs, USA
Fluorometers for flow monitoring
Vibrock, England
Vibration monitoring
www.vibrock.com
Vista Data Vision, Iceland
Web-based data management software www.vistadatavision.com
VMT, Germany
Ring convergence measurement
system for tunnels
www.vmt-gmbh.de/387.html?&L=
Klohn Crippen Berger establishes new graduate
scholarship at the University of Alberta
Vivian Giang
On May 6, 2013, the Geotechnical
Centre at the University of Alberta cel-
ebrated the establishment of the Earle
Klohn Graduate Scholarship in Geo-
technical Engineering. Klohn Crippen
Berger Ltd. (KCB) President & CEO
Bryan Watts and scholarship namesake
Earle J. Klohn
presented the
inaugural award
to Nicholas Beier
at the Fairmont
Hotel Macdonald
in Edmonton.
KCB donated
$150,000 to cre-
ate an endow-
ment fund which
will provide
scholarships
valued at a mini-
mum of $5,000
annually to outstanding students pur-
suing graduate research in the field of
geotechnical engineering specializing
in the geotechnical behaviour or the
environmental impact of mine tailings.
Klohn is an international authority on
the design and construction of tailings
dams and has specialized in the design
of embankments and the foundations
for heavy industrial developments.
At the dinner, Watts made a surprise
announcement of an additional dona-
tion of $100,000 to the endowment,
now worth $250,000. “This scholar-
ship is a testament to Klohn Crippen
Berger’s vision and commitment to
building the next generation of geo-
technical engineers,” said Dr. Ward
Wilson, Professor at the Department
of Civil & Environmental Engineer-
ing. In his speech, Klohn, who gradu-
ated from the University of Alberta
with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees
in Civil Engineering, recognized the
University’s strong history of geo-
technical education and training and
mentoring of geotechnical engineers.
“I am honoured that [KCB] would do
something like this for me.”
(L to R): Ward Wilson, Nicholas Beier, Earle Klohn and
Dave Sego. (Courtesy of Jen Stogowski Photography).