In this and future issues of the CGS E-News, the 2018 CGS award recipients are being featured. In this issue, Steven Rose, winner of the 2018 Geoenvironmental Award of the CGS’s Geoenvironmental Engineering Division, is highlighted. This award is to recognize an outstanding contribution (publication or otherwise) in geoenvironmental engineering. Since it was established in 2000 it is awarded biannually in even years. Steven’s citation reads:
Following his death earlier this summer, Steve Rose leaves a remarkable legacy in the field of geoenvironmental engineering. Founding President of Malroz Engineering, a Kingston, Ontario-based company, his expertise has spanned a wide range of engineering design, construction, and environmental consulting projects, including the development and planning of research investigations, site and construction activities.
Past project work across four continents included onshore and offshore studies of soils, groundwater, surface water, coastal processes, sedimentation and remediation, and decommissioning of commercial and industrial sites. Over his 30+ year career, he has authored numerous geoenvironmental 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 section director. Always with an eye on advancing the geoengineering profession, he held an adjunct faculty position at Queen’s University teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The recognition of Steve’s professional and volunteer accomplishments 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.”