The CGS Spring Cross Canada Lecture Tour featuring Ellen Rathje, Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), and a Senior Research Scientist at the UT Bureau of Economic Geology, is kicking off soon! There will be two legs of the 2024 Spring CCLT, with the first week consisting of presentations in the East, and the second week in the West. The CCLT is made possible each year by the support of the Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique.
Trip #1: May 21-24, 2024
Tuesday, May 21: Kingston, ON
Wednesday, May 22: Montreal, QC
Thursday, May 23: Ottawa, ON
Friday, May 24: Sudbury, ON
Ellen’s topics include Regional-Scale Seismic Landslide Assessments for Distributed Infrastructure; New Approaches for Evaluating the Seismic Performance of Slopes and Earth Dams; Site Response Analysis: Does it Work?; and Learning from Earthquakes and Other Natural Hazards: Past, Present, and Future.
Stay tuned for more details from your Local Section, to follow in the next few weeks.