CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
contributions to the CGS made by
these three volunteers over their terms,
as well as their valuable and enthu-
siastic presence that enriched the EC
Meetings. I am pleased to welcome
Nicholas Vlachopoulos
,
Andrea
Lougheed
, and
Maraika DeGroot
who will be assuming duties for the
above positions, respectively, com-
mencing January 2018.
A few of our Board members have
also completed their terms; they
include the following Division
Chairs:
Richard Brachman
(Chair of
Geosynthetics Division),
Craig Lake
(Geoenvironmental),
Sam Proskin
(Rock Mechanics),
Alex Baumgard
(Soil Mechanics and Foundations),
Frank Magdich
(Groundwater),
and Section Directors:
Sumi Sid-
diqua
(Interior BC),
Scott McKean
(Calgary),
Seán Mac Eoin
(Section
Director Geotechnical Society of
Edmonton),
Andrew Stewart
(Lon-
don),
Andrew Drevininkas
(Southern
Ontario),
Yannic Ethier
(Western
Québec),
Benjamin McGuigan
(New
Brunswick). Two committee chairs
are also completing their assignments:
Paul Simms
(Mining Geotechnique)
and
Tim Newson
(Sustainable
Geotechnics). It is important for me
to acknowledge the valuable and
persevering contributions by these vol-
unteer members.
One of our long standing and most
popular CGS events, the Cross Canada
Lecture Tour (CCLT) is approach-
ing its centennial mark. The 99th
CCLT was completed by
Vaughan
Griffiths
(Colorado School of Mines)
in April 2017.
Jean-Marie Konrad
will have delivered the 100th CCLT
by the time you read this report. In a
complementary manner to the CCLT,
Greg Siemens
and
Jasmin Raymond
presented their Colloquium Lecture
Series at various locations.
Michael
Hendry
was the 2017 CGS Col-
loquium speaker during GeoOttawa
2017.
Matt Lato
was announced as
the 2018 CGS Colloquium speaker
and will present at GeoEdmonton
2018 next September.
The Society continues to maintain
very good relationships with con-
stituent and partner societies and
international organizations such as
the Engineering Institute of Canada
(EIC), the Canadian Society for Civil
Engineering (CSCE), the Cana-
dian Federation of Earth Sciences
(CFES), the Geo-Institute of ASCE
and the International Society for Soil
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engi-
neering (ISSMGE). The CGS active
participation in the 19th International
Conference on Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering (19th
ICSMGE) held in Seoul, Korea in
September 2017 is noteworthy:
Alex
Baumgard
and
Angela Küpper
,
reviewed the 23 abstracts and 18 final
papers on behalf of our Canadian
members. The Sixth International
Young Geotechnical Engineers’
Conference (iYGEC6) which was
held in association with the ISSMGE
in Seoul, Korea had eleven abstracts
from our CGS members. These were
reviewed by
Ariane Locat
and her
team to select 2 candidates that the
CGS & the Canadian Foundation for
Geotechnique (CFG) co-sponsored.
Andrea Lougheed
and
Jeffrey Oke
were the successful candidates to
attend the iYGEC6. It is also of impor-
tance to highlight the duties assumed
by our CGS member
Tim Newson
as
Vice President North America (VP-
NA) for the ISSMGE (2017-2021).
As a part of our focus on communica-
tions, some additional enhancements
to the CGS website is also underway.
Moreover, CGS News (edited by
Don
Lewycky
) continues to be published
in Geotechnical News (GN).
The promotion of research activities
conducted by our members form an
