The Canadian Geotechnical Society provides professional development opportunities to members across Canada and in other countries. Members work in industry, in government, in construction and in universities. They can be engineers or geoscientists - the Society is associated with the Engineering Institute of Canada and the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences.

2009 CGS Annual Report

The 2009 CGS Annual Report is now available in the Documents section of the website as one larger report or four smaller sub-reports. You can click here to open the larger pdf file directly.

2010 CALGARY CONFERENCE

63rd Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 6th Canadian Permafrost Conference, Calgary, September 12-16, 2010

Call for abstracts !!!

The website is now available for more information and registration at http://www.geo2010.ca/

MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION AND RENEWAL can be found at http://www.cgs.ca/cgsmembers. Online member registration and payment for 2010 is now available for renewing and new members at http://members.cgs.ca/.

Information about the Society's Corporate Sponsors Program can be found at http://www.cgs.ca/cgsdocuments/manuals/ in Administration Manual, Appendix 14, p40.

The Society operates through regional groups in about twenty Canadian cities from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. It has specialized Divisions and Committees for soil mechanics, rock mechanics, engineering geology, hydrogeology, geosynthetics, geoenvironmental studies, cold regions geotechnology, computing, education, landslides, and professional practice. It is an incorporated tax-exempt Society that is managed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Members of the Society contribute significantly to the Canadian Geotechnical Journal http://www.cgs.ca/cgsdocuments/canadian-geotechnical-journal as authors and reviewers. An active program of annual conferences and specialty conferences provides opportunities to share and acquire professional experience."

Dr. Victor Sowa, P.Eng., P.Geo.; Secretary General, vsowacgs@dccnet.com

Canadian Geotechnical Society, Société canadienne de géotechnique.