Geotechnical News • March 2019
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Members in the News
2019 EIC Medals and
Fellowships
Six CGS Members Recognized
The Engineering Institute of Canada
has announced the recipients of the
2019 EIC Medals and Fellowships.
The CGS is very pleased to report that
CGS members will receive four of the
six EIC Medals, and two of the 20 EIC
Fellowships.
CGS members receiving 2019 EIC
Medals are:
• Suzanne Lacasse
, CGS Legget
Medal Recipient (2007), CGS
President (2003-2004) and Manag-
ing Director (1991-2012) of the
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute,
Norway, will be awarded the
Sir
John Kennedy Medal
“for out-
standing service to the profession
and contributions to the science of
engineering”;
• Jacques Locat
, CGS Legget Medal
Recipient (2015) and Professor
Emeritus, Faculty of Science and
Engineering, Université Laval,
Quebec QC, will be awarded
the
Julian C. Smith Medal
“for
achievement in the development of
Canada”;
• Doug Stead
, CGS Legget Medal
Recipient (2017), CGS Vice-pres-
ident Technical (2009-2010), and
Professor/FRBC Chair in Resource
Geoscience & Geotechnics at
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
BC, will be awarded the
John B.
Stirling Medal
“for leadership
and distinguished service at the
national level by members of EIC
Societies”; and
• Kevin Biggar
, President, Canadian
Foundation for Geotechnique, and
Principal at K.W. Biggar Engineer-
ing Consulting Ltd, St Albert AB,
will be awarded the
Canadian
Pacific Railway Medal
“for lead-
ership and distinguished service at
the regional level by members of
EIC Societies.”
CGS members who were awarded
2019 EIC Fellowships include:
• Jean Côté
, CGS Vice-president
Communications and Member
Services (2017-2018) and Profes-
sor, Department of Civil and Water
Engineering, Université Laval,
Quebec QC;
• Craig Lake
, Editor, Canadian Geo-
technical Journal and Professor,
Department of Civil and Resource
Engineering, Dalhousie University,
Halifax NS.
Since 1965 when the EIC began
awarding medals and fellowships,
CGS members have been awarded 68
EIC medals and 154 EIC Fellowships.
The CGS would like to thank the CGS
members who prepared the nomina-
tions and those who wrote letters of
support. Without nominations and
letters of support there would be no
recipients.
2018 CGS Awards:
Geoenvironmental Award
In this and future issues of the CGS
News, the 2018 CGS award recipients
are being featured. In this issue,
Ste-
ven Rose
, winner of the 2018 Geoen-
vironmental Award of the CGS’s
Geoenvironmental Engineering Divi-
sion, is highlighted. This award is to
recognize an outstanding contribution
(publication or otherwise) in geoen-
vironmental engineering. Since it was
established in 2000 it is awarded bian-
nually in even years. Steven’s citation
reads:
Following his death earlier this sum-
mer,
Steve Rose
leaves a remarkable
legacy in the field of geoenvironmen-
tal engineering. Founding President
of Malroz Engineering, a Kingston,
Ontario-based company, his expertise
has spanned a wide range of engineer-
ing design, construction, and environ-
mental consulting projects, including
the development and planning of
research investigations, site and con-
struction activities.
Past project work across four conti-
nents included onshore and offshore
studies of soils, groundwater, surface
water, coastal processes, sedimenta-
tion and remediation, and decommis-
sioning of commercial and industrial
sites. Over his 30+ year career, he has
authored numerous geoenvironmen-
tal papers, including a textbook on
brownfields revitalization. Mr. Rose
represented Canada twice as a delegate
to NATO Pilot Study Workshops on
closed landfills and urban brownfields
redevelopment.
Steve was active in the CGS Kingston
Section serving on the executive since
2006, including five years as CGS sec-
tion director. Always with an eye on
advancing the geoengineering profes-
sion, he held an adjunct faculty posi-
tion at Queen’s University teaching at
both the undergraduate and graduate
levels.
The recognition of Steve’s profes-
sional and volunteer accomplish-
ments include being made a fellow
of Engineers Canada, as well as his
inauguration in Professional Engineers
Ontario’s Order of Honour, along with
being awarded that body’s President’s
Award for volunteering.
For his lifetime of professional
achievement, CGS is honoured to
award
Steve Rose
with a posthumous
2018 Geoenvironmental Award.”
Committee News
GeoEdmonton 2018
Retrospective
71st CGS and 13th CGS/IAH-
CNC Conference
September 23 - 26, 2018
In the days leading up the start of
GeoEdmonton 2018, the weather was
less than auspicious. A cold front had
dropped temperatures to well below
zero and blanketed Edmonton with
over 10cm of fresh snow. Delegates
arriving from much warmer climes
were certainly taken aback by the near
whiteout conditions that greeted them
as they started to arrive for the confer-
ence. Fortunately, as more guests
