Geotechnical News • March 2017
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WASTE GEOTECHNICS
Gord McKenna, PhD, PEng, PGeol
Principal Geotechnical Engineer
BGC Engineering Inc.
#500-980 Howe Street, Vancouver,
BC, Canada, V6Z 0C8
Phone: 604-684-5900 Email:
Vanessa Mann, PhD, PEng.
Hydrogeological Engineer,
BGC Engineering Inc., 560 Main
Street, Suite 240, Saint John NB,
E2K 1J5,
Nick Beier, PhD, PEng,
Assistant Professor, University of
Alberta, Civil & Environmental
Engineering, 6-215 Donadeo
Inovtion Centre for Engineering,
9211 - 116 Street, Edmonton, AB
T6G 1H9, Phone: 780-492-8183,
Email:
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Bereket Fisseha, MSc, PEng,
PhD Candidate, University of
Alberta,
406-10883 Saskatchewan Drive
NW, Edmonton, AB, T6E 4S6, Email:
Nicolas Olmedo, BSc, EIT,
PhD Candidate, University of
Alberta
#1712 8510 111 Street,
Edmonton, AB, T6G 1H7, Email:
New Scholarship Announced at International Oil Sands
Tailings Conference ’16
Vivian Giang
The University of Alberta Geotech-
nical Centre and Oil Sands Tailings
Research Facility (OSTRF) hosted
the International Oil Sands Tailings
Conference at the Fairmont Chateau
Lake Louise between December 5 and
8, 2016. Two hundred delegates repre-
senting six countries attended IOSTC
’16, including mine waste managers,
