The Annual CGS Awards Banquet was held on September 30 during GeoSt.John’s 2019, with many awards and honours presented, recognizing the achievements and excellence of our members. Highlights of the evening included the first ever recipients of the Early Achievement Award and Dennis Becker Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique M.Sc. Student Award, and Bob Schuster presenting the Robert Schuster Medal to this year’s winner. The R.F. Legget Award was presented separately during the Legget Luncheon on September 30. The 2019 CGS Awards and Honours are listed below:
R.F. Legget Medal Arun Valsangkar
R.M. Quigley Award (from the CGJ)
Lin Guo, Yuanqiang Cai, Richard J. Jardine, Zhongxuan Yang, Jun Wang
Honourable Mentions
- Marie-Pier Ethier, Bruno Bussière, Michel Aubertin, Abdelkabir Maqsoud,
Isabelle Demers, Stefan Broda
- R. Kerry Rowe, Richard W.I. Brachman, W. Andy Take
- Amin Askarinejad, Sarah M. Springman
Fredlund Award (from the CGJ)
Yan-Jun Du, Ning-Jun Jiang, Song-Yu Liu, Fei Jin, Devendra Narain Singh,
Anand J. Puppala
G. Geoffrey Meyerhof Award Alex Sy
Thomas Roy Award Nicholas Vlachopoulos
John A. Franklin Award Giovanni Grasselli
Geosynthetics Award Marolo Alfaro
Robert N. Farvolden Award Jim Hendry
(Joint award with IAH-CNC)
Robert Schuster Medal John Clague
(Joint award with AEG)
Graduate Student Paper Award
1st Prize Vincent Boulanger-Martel
2nd Prize Josephine Morgenroth
Undergraduate Student Report (Individual)
1st Prize Megan McKellar
Undergraduate Student Report (Group)
1st Prize Jesse Zonneveld, Mat Stephenson, Shawn Matthies,
Stephen Marks
2nd Prize Sam Balcom, Ahmed Hamad, David Quinn, Jeremy Wyatt
Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique Michael Bozozuk National Graduate Scholarship
Haley Schafer
Dennis Becker Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique M.Sc. Student Award
Andrea Walsh
Early Achievement Award Suzanne Powell
A.G. Stermac Awards - Wayne Gibson
- Lynn Pugh
- Don Lewycky
- Seán Mac Eoin
- Ian Moore
CGS R.M. Hardy Keynote Address Ryan Phillips
Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium Kathy Kalenchuk
Cross Canada Lecture Tours Charles Shackelford (Spring 2019)
Ian Moore (Fall 2019)