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than 50 years, respectively. This
program was smoothly executed
by
Paul Dittrich
.
In other news, the annual CGS Board
of Directors meeting was held in
Regina on September 28, immediately
before the
67
th
Annual CGS Confer-
ence
(GeoRegina2014). Some of the
highlights of this meeting appear as
bullet items above, but the full
2014
CGS Annual Report
will be available
on the CGS website,
www.cgs.ca
by
the end of the calendar year.
GeoRegina
was held from September
28 to October 1, with the theme
Engi-
neering for the Extremes
. The confer-
ence featured over 185 papers and
presentations from authors from across
Canada and around the world. Over
450 delegates attended the conference
and
Dr. Wayne Clifton
(Conference
Chair) and his organizing committee
were recognized during the conference
closing ceremony with certificates of
appreciation from the CGS.
The first plenary session of the confer-
ence was the CGS Hardy Address by
Dr. Lee Barbour
of the University
of Saskatoon on the topic of
Tracking
Water Movement in Oil Sand Mine
Closure Landforms – Extending the
Temporal and Spatial Monitoring
Scales.
The 2014 CGS Colloquium
was given by
Dr. Scott McDougall
of BGC Engineering on the topic of
Landslide Runout Analysis – Current
Practice and Challenges
. The CGS
members are reminded that the 2015
Colloquium Speaker is
Dr. Greg Sie-
mens
from the Royal Military College
of Canada, who will give his talk at
GeoQuebec2015 in Quebec City next
fall.
CGS awards were given to some
conference Awards Banquet. The
most senior award of the CGS is the
R.F. Legget Medal. The 2014 Legget
Medal was given to Dr. Peter Byrne,
Emeritus Professor at the Univer-
sity of British Columbia. His former
PhD student Dr. Ernest Naesgaard
introduced the Leggettee to the CGS
membership and gave the follow-
ing quote “One of Dr. Byrne’s great
strengths is his ability to identify the
key aspects of a problem, and develop
engineering solutions that are practical
and effective because they efficiently
focus on the critical mechanisms. He
has impressed many with this singular
skill.” The complete Legget Medal
Award introduction and response fol-
lows later in this issue.
The winners of the
2013 R.M.
Quigley Award
for the best paper
published in the Canadian Geotechni-
ournal in 2013 were
Z.J. West-
, D.J. White
and
M.F. Randolph
heir paper titled “
Modelling the
edment process during offshore
-laying on fine-grained soil”
. The
ert N. Farvolden Award
, which
joint award of the (IAH-CNC)
the CGS, was won by J
ames F.
ker.
Other important awards given
ere the
Thomas Roy Award
to
klin D. Patton
, the
G. Geof-
Meyerhof Award
given to
Alan
nab
, and the
Roger J. E. Brown
rd
to
Isabelle de Grandpré
,
iel Fortier
and
Eva Stephani
.
Geoenvironmental Award
was
n to
Michel Aubertin
.
. Stermac Awards
, which recog-
special service to the CGS, were
ented at the CGS Awards banquet
ario Ruel
,
Sylvain Roy
,
Ari-
Locat
,
Matthew A. Perras
and
or A. Sowa
. A special tribute was
to our outgoing Secretary General
is banquet, Dr. Victor Sowa, in
gnition of his dedicated service to
ociety (see the full tribute to Vic-
lsewhere in this issue of Geotech-
l News).
nger members of our geotechnical
rnity were also recognized. The