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Geotechnical News • December 2014
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Upcoming Conferences and
Seminars
68
th
Canadian Geotechnical
Conference
7
th
Canadian Permafrost
Conference
September 20 – September 23,
2015
Québec City, Quebec
Call for Abstracts
The
Eastern Quebec Section
of the
Canadian Geotechnical Society and
the
Canadian National Committee
for the International Permafrost
Association (CNC-IPA)
, invite you
to GéoQuébec 2015, for the joint
68
th
Canadian Geotechnical and 7
th
Canadian Permafrost Conference. The
conference will be held from Sep-
tember 20 - 23, 2015 in the Conven-
tion Center in Québec City, Québec.
It will cover a wide range of topics,
including speciality sessions that are
of local and national relevance to the
fields of geo-engineering, permafrost
and engineering geology. In addition
to the technical program and plenary
sessions, the conference will include
a complement of workshops, short
courses, technical excursions and local
tours.
The official languages for the confer-
ence will be English and French. The
Convention Center is located in the
historic downtown area of Québec
City, a UNESCO World Heritage
Site, facing onto Québec’s Parliament
Hill. Old Québec City, which is the
cradle of French civilization in North
America, is best explored on foot and
September is the best time of the year
with a typically warm, dry weather
and the maple trees just beginning to
take on their colourful fall foliage.
The conference theme
Challenges
from North to South
, reflects the
diverse and complex challenges
that the geotechnical, cold regions
engineering and permafrost commu-
nities will need to address in order
to support sustainable economic
development. The Local Organizing
Committee invites members from the
Canadian and international commu-
nities to contribute papers on their
recent research and advancements in
geotechnical, geo-environmental and
cold regions engineering, as well as
permafrost science.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts
of a maximum 400 words through the
conference web site,
The abstracts should gen-
erally fall within the following topics,
but sessions will be added for groups
of abstracts which share a common
theme but are not listed below:
• Fundamentals
Soil and Rock Mechanics,
Foundation Engineering,
Groundwater Hydraulics, Physical
and Numerical Modelling,
Geocryology, and Periglacial
Processes
• Soil and Terrain
Characterization
Laboratory Testing, In Situ
Testing, Instrumentation, GIS and
Remote Sensing
• Geohazards
Climate Change, Permafrost
Degradation, Earthquakes,
Landslides
• Infrastructure Design and
Operation
Transportation, Pipelines,
Embankments and Dams, Harbour
and Shoreline Geotechnique,
Infrastructure performance in
Cold Regions
• Problematic Soils
Permafrost Soils and Ground
Ice, Collapsible Soils, Expansive
Soils, Ground Improvement
• Mining Waste Management and
Environmental Geotechnology
Mine Waste Disposal,
Contaminated Soils, Landfills and
Barriers, Restoration of Derelict
Lands, Mining in Cold Regions
• Sustainable Development
Policy and Regulation, Risk
and Reliability, Northern
Communities
• Case Studies and Case Histories
The deadline for abstract submission
is
January 15, 2015
. Authors whose
abstracts are accepted by the confer-
ence’s Technical Committee will be
notified by
February 21, 2015
and
invited to submit full papers. The sub-
mitted papers, which can be in either
English or French, will be reviewed
prior to final acceptance and inclu-
sion in the conference proceedings. At