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Geotechnical News
June 2013
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Message from the President
By the time you read this message, the
new executive for 2013-14 will have
been in place for six months. The CGS
executive held its first biannual meet-
ing on April 27 in Toronto. What has
certainly made an impression on me is
the large amount of activity required
to keep our Society running smoothly.
I am pleased to be able to announce
the names of several new chairs for
Divisions, Sections and Committees,
whose appointments became effective
in 2012 and 2013. Most chairs serve
for three years and the entire roster
of chair appointments are purposely
staggered over three years, to ensure
that the Board of Directors always has
a mix of both new and experienced
individuals.
The recently appointed new Divi-
sion chair for Engineering Geology
is
Doug Stead
, replacing Davide
Elmo. The new Section Directors are
Jason Pellett
(Vancouver),
Suzanne
Powell
(Vancouver Island),
Eric
Mohlmann
(Prince George);
Sumi
Siddiqua
(Interior British Columbia),
Mamadou Fall
(Eastern and Northern
Ontario),
Eltayeb Mohamedelhassan
(Thunder Bay),
Mrinmoy Kanungo
(London);
Jean Côté
(Eastern Que-
bec), and
Janet Williams
(Newfound-
land). I am also delighted to report
that there is an initiative to form a
New Brunswick chapter, led by
Hany
El Naggar
in Fredericton. The new
chairs of the CGS Standing Commit-
tees are
Michael Porter
(Landslides)
and
Roger Skirrow
(Transportation
Geotechnique). Finally I am pleased
to announce that
Don Lewycky
is the
new Editor of the CGS News section
in Geotechnical News, replacing Phil
Richard J. Bathurst, President of
Canadian Geotechnical Society