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Geotechnical News • December 2013
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Message from the President
Much has happened since my last
message published in the September
issue of Geotechnical News. In Sep-
tember I had the pleasure of attending
the Council Meeting of the
Interna-
tional Society of Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering
in Paris as
the CGS representative. At that meet-
ing,
Roger Frank
from France was
elected as the new President of the
ISSMGE and we wish him the very
best over the next four years. He has
inherited from immediate past-Presi-
dent
Jean-Loius Briaud
and his team,
a vibrant and healthy society. At the
same meeting, Seoul Korea was voted
to be the host country for the
19th
International Conference on Soil
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engi-
neering in 2017
. In addition, the next
Pan-American ISSMGE conference
will be held in Buenos Aires, Argen-
tina in 2015. During the ISSMGE
council meeting, the activities of
the 88 constituent member societies
were summarized and I was proud to
observe that the Canadian Geotechni-
cal Society is one of the most active
despite the larger memberships of
some other countries. I was delighted
to see that the ISSMGE has taken
ownership of the
International Jour-
nal of Geotechnical Case Histories,
which is free and contains extended
case studies with an online repository
of project data that enhances the value
of the reported case studies. This is a
valuable resource for both academics
and practitioners. The Society also
includes a total of 32
Technical Com-
mittees
of which four are led by CGS
members (
TC103 Numerical Meth-
Richard J. Bathurst, President of
Canadian Geotechnical Society