22
Geotechnical News • June 2019
COMPUTING IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
From the GS Board
Ziakoff
. In this issue, the remaining
four women are profiled.
Jean Hutchinson
Jean is known for her love of the
outdoors and geology, a love that has
not faded since childhood. Her father,
a Professor of Civil Engineering,
encouraged Jean to pursue engineer-
ing, and she completed her Bachelor’s
(1984, University of Toronto) and
Master’s (1988, University of Alberta)
in Geological and Civil/Geotechnical
Engineering, respectively. Her thirst
for knowledge continued leading her
to a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering
in 1992 at University of Toronto, and a
thesis on “Cablebolt reinforcement of
open stopes at Ansil Mine”, supervised
by Evert Hoek.
Working in academia since 1997, first
the University of Waterloo and then
at Queen’s University, Jean has taught
and focused her research on rock engi-
neering, slope stability, ground sub-
sidence, remote sensing and GIS, to
name a few. From 2009 to 2017, Jean
was Head of the Geological Sciences/
Geological Engineering Department at
Queen’s. Her career has taken her
all over Canada and to nearly every
continent.
Jean has been a member of the CGS
since 1987 and has served as the Chair
of the Rock Mechanics Division, Divi-
sion Representative on the CGS Exec-
utive Committee, and Associate Editor
of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal
(2002-2005). She has been the recipi-
ent of many CGS awards, including
the A.G. Stermac Award (2001), John
A. Franklin Award (2003), R.M. Quig-
ley Award (2011), Thomas Roy Award
(2013), and the Robert Schuster Medal
(2016). She has also received several
teaching awards over her career. In
the fall of 2018, Jean became the Vice
President North America of the Inter-
national Association of Engineering
Geology and was selected to give the
2019 Glossop Medal Lecture of the
Engineering Group of the Geological
Society (of London).
Catherine Mulligan
Catherine came to geotechnical
engineering after receiving her Bach-
elor’s (1983) and Master’s (1985)
in Chemical Engineering at McGill
University. She became interested in
geoenvironmental engineering while
working on a research project involv-
ing remediation of a contaminated site
in the Toronto Harbour. She subse-
quently completed her PhD in Civil /
Geoenvironmental Engineering in
1998 at McGill University where she
researched the use of biosurfactants
for the removal of heavy metals from
contaminated soil and sediments.
Since 1999 Catherine has worked in
academia at Concordia University
in Montreal primarily researching
environmental aspects of remediation
of soil, sediments and mining residue.
She is the founding Director of the
Concordia Institute for Water, Energy
and Sustainable Systems, and from
2008-2015, Catherine was Concordia’s
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
and Research.
Catherine has been involved with
both the Canadian Society for Civil
Engineers (CSCE) and the CGS. For
the CGS, she served as Chair of the
Geoenvironmental Division (2006-
2010), as a founding member of the
Catherine Mulligan with Chinese delegation.
Jean Hutchinson surrounded by some Queen’s students.
