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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
light local and regional activities. The
official languages of the conference
are English and French.
Known as a city with
Infinite Hori-
zons
, this community slogan reflects
both the vastness of space and
momentum of our current growth. We
welcome you to a city that has gone
from prairie field to one of Canada’s
fastest growing cities.
The Delta Regina hotel is located in
the heart of downtown Regina and
within walking distance of the city’s
many landmarks including Wascana
Park and the Legislature Building,
Victoria Park, Casino Regina housed
in the old Union Station, and numer-
ous shops and restaurants. Delegates
and their guests may also choose
to visit popular tourist attractions
such as the RCMP Heritage Centre,
Globe Theatre, Royal Saskatchewan
Museum, Norman Mackenzie Art Gal-
lery, Saskatchewan Science Centre,
Regina Symphony Orchestra, Govern-
ment House and Saskatchewan Sports
Hall of Fame.
For more information on
GeoRegina
2014
, including delegate pricing,
please visit the conference website at
www.georegina2014.ca.
The early bird
delegate registration deadline is July
31, 2014.
First International Conference
on Discrete Fracture Network
Engineering
October 19 - October 22, 2014,
Vancouver, B.C.
The Vancouver rock mechanics com-
munity is pleased to host
DFNE 2014
,
the
1st International Conference on
Discrete Fracture Network Engi-
neering,
This conference will be the inaugural
international meeting of engineers and
geoscientists who use discrete fracture
network engineering in the character-
ization of rock masses and solutions of
engineering problems.
This new and rapidly expanding area
of engineering has wide applications,
including underground and surface
mining, underground nuclear waste
disposal, petroleum geomechanics,
civil engineering and natural haz-
ards. Most modern geomechanical
simulation software packages now
include the option to consider discrete
fracture networks which are increas-
ingly important to engineers and
geoscientist involved in practical rock
engineering and fluid flow problems.
This conference will include keynote
lectures by experts in the areas of
Discrete Fracture Networks and their
application to mining, civil and petro-
leum engineering.
With almost 170 accepted abstracts
and five short course/workshops deal-
ing with a wide range of DFN topics
from data collection and structural
geology to DFN development and
geomechanical modeling, a major
focus of the conference is to provide a
practical introduction to DFN engi-
neering and its relevance to industry
as well as to introduce state-of-art
developments.
DFNE 2014
will be held at the Shera-
ton Wall Centre in scenic downtown
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
from October 19 - 22, 2014.
The
DFNE 2014
organizing com-
mittee invites you to join us to share
your ideas and experiences in the
increased development and practical
use of this technology under the theme
Engineering Characterization of
Fractured Rock Masses: Applica-
tions of Discrete Fracture Network
Engineering
.
The Conference Co-Chairs are
Doug
Stead
of Simon Fraser University and
Bill Dershowitz
of Golder Associates.
For more information contact Doug
Stead at
6th Canadian Geohazards
Conference
June 15 to 18, 2014
Queen’s University, Kingston,
Ontario
The
6th Canadian Geohazards
Conference
will be held at Queen’s
University, Kingston Ontario from
June 15 to 18, 2014. The GeoHazards
conferences are the premiere forums
in Canada for the sharing and dis-
semination of scientific and engineer-
ing knowledge related to geohazards.
Geohazards affect a broad spectrum of
public and industrial interests in Can-
ada. In many ways the risks posed by
geohazards are increasing as we spend
more time in hazardous places, and
place more infrastructure there. The
need to assess, mitigate, and commu-
nicate these risks is likewise becom-
ing more relevant to more Canadians.
GeoHazards 6
will include applied