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Geotechnical News • December 2017
CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
cal tours. The official languages for
the conference will be English and
French.
The GeoEdmonton 2018
conference
organizing committee invites mem-
bers of the Canadian and international
geotechnical and hydrogeological
communities to contribute papers for
presentation at the conference. Of
particular interest are submissions
highlighting recent research devel-
opments and advancements in their
respective fields of practice, as well as
case histories dealing with the chal-
lenges of geotechnical or hydrogeo-
logical problems.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts
(French or English, maximum 300
words) by
December 31, 2017
through the
Online Submission
page
of the conference website at
Abstracts
should generally align with the follow-
ing topics, but sessions may be added
for groups of abstracts which share a
common theme not listed below:
• Geotechnical themes
◊ Soil Mechanics and Founda-
tions
◊ Rock Mechanics and Engineer-
ing Geology
◊ Landslides and Geohazards
◊ Mining Geotechnics and Hy-
drogeology
◊ Geoenvironmental Engineering
◊ Transportation Geotechnics
◊ Geosynthetics
◊ Cold Regions and Permafrost
Geotechnics
◊ Sustainable Geotechnics
◊ Professional Practice
◊ Special Themes:
à
à
Peats and Soft Soils
à
à
Light Rail Transit
à
à
Tunnelling in Urban Environ-
ments
à
à
Geohazards in Linear Infra-
structure
à
à
Remote Sensing and Monitor-
ing
à
à
In-situ Testing
à
à
Trenchless Technology
à
à
Risk Management in Geotech-
nical Projects
à
à
Reliability Analysis for Geo-
technical Design
à
à
Dam Safety
à
à
Shallow Geothermal Energy
Exchange
• Hydrogeological themes
◊ Mining, Energy Development
and Groundwater
◊ Groundwater and Climate
Change
◊ Watershed Resilience and
Source Water Protection
◊ Groundwater Dependent Eco-
systems
◊ Regional Characterisation
◊ Hydrostratigraphy and Geo-
logical Modelling
◊ Hydrogeophysics
◊ Geostatistical Methods for
Mapping and Modelling
◊ Isotopic and Geochemical
Fingerprinting
◊ Approaches to Groundwater
Management
◊ Transboundary Water Re-
sources
◊ Outreach and Education
◊ General Hydrogeology
◊ Contaminant Hydrogeology:
For the latest information about the
conference, please visit the conference
website at
See you in Edmonton!
2018 Geohazards 7 Conference
June 3 to 6, 2017
Canmore, Alberta
The CGS Geohazards Committee’s
specialty conference,
Geohazards 7
,
will be held
June 3 to 6, 2018
at the
Coast Canmore Hotel & Conference
Centre
in Canmore, Alberta and the
call for abstracts is well underway.
Geohazards 7
will touch on the full
range of hazards and risks associated
with floods, debris flows, landslides,
snow avalanche, earthquakes, volca-
nic eruptions, degrading permafrost
and more, and will be of interest to
engineering and geoscience students
and consultants, industry, and gov-
ernment agency representatives who
are involved in planning, approval,
construction and operation of infra-
structure and residential development
in areas prone to geohazards.
More information about the confer-
ence can be found by visiting the
conference website at
.
geohazards7.ca/
Members in the News
Dr. Richard J. Bathurst elected
to Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada
We are delighted to announce that
Dr. Richard J. Bathurst
of the Civil
Engineering Department at RMC has
been elected
Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada
.
Election to the academies of the Royal
Society of Canada is the highest hon-
our a scholar can achieve in the Arts,
Humanities and Sciences.
The citation reads:
Professor Bathurst
has made innovative and impactful
Richard J. Bathurst
