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Geotechnical News • December 2014
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
accomplishments of a CGS mem-
ber and AEG member in the area
of geohazards.
• In partnership with the Canadian
Foundation for Geotechnique,
Dr. Dennis Becker
(Chair),
announced the renaming of the
national graduate scholarship to
the
Canadian Foundation for
Geotechnique Michael Bozozuk
National Graduate Scholarship.
The renaming was in honour of
Dr. Michael Bozozuk
for his
lifetime support of the younger
members of our Society.
• A succession plan for our retir-
ing Secretary General,
Dr. Victor
Sowa
, was successfully executed.
Our new Executive Director start-
ing in 2015 will be former CGS
President,
Michel Aubertin
. Note
that the title of Secretary General
has been changed to Executive
Director. In concert with this tran-
sition, there is a plan to move all
CGS documents into the “cloud”
to facilitate access by Executive
Committee members and for archi-
val purposes.
• Memorandums of Understand-
ing (MOU’s) between CGS local
sections and CGS headquarters
for the
GeoQuebec2015
(Quebec
City) and
GeoVancouver2016
conferences were finalized and the
Ottawa Geotechnical Group was
invited to prepare a final proposal
for
GeoOttawa
to be held in 2017.
Our Secretary General has worked
tirelessly to develop a set of MOU
templates to facilitate the timely
drafting of future MOU’s with lo-
cal sections and partner societies.
• Two very successful annual CGS
conferences (
GeoMontreal2013
and
GeoRegina2014
) were held
during the time of this adminis-
tration. These successes were in
large part due to the local sections
involved and also the excellent
support by our Administrator
(Gibson Group) in the person of
Wayne Gibson, Lisa McJunkin
and
Brendan Crosby
.
• Student attendees at GeoMontreal
and GeoRegina conferences were
given free CGS student member-
ship for the following calendar
year. This resulted in a marked
increase in student members from
94 to 259 over the last two years.
Excluding student members our to-
tal CGS membership has remained
constant at about 1220. Member-
ship fees have remained constant
for all membership categories over
the last two years.
• The CGS negotiated a 20% dis-
count for its members on selected
publications by Balkema.
• Blue, Bronze, Silver and Gold CGS
Service pins were given to CGS
members recognizing continuous
membership in our Society for less
than 10, 10-24, 25-49 and more