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June 2015

Call for Nominations for 2015 Awards and Fellowships
Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)

As a constituent Society of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), CGS members are eligible for awards and fellowships of the EIC which are summarized below. CGS members are encouraged to submit EIC nominations of fellow members to CGS Headquarters by July 15, 2015.

Nominations must include:

  1. a completed EIC Nomination Form which is available from http://eic-ici.ca/honours_awards/);

  2. a nomination letter;

  3. the nominee’s CV; and

  4. supporting letters from colleagues, preferably Fellows of the EIC (FEIC).

Past CGS member recipients of EIC Awards and Fellowships can be found on the CGS website www.cgs.ca/awards.php?lang=en. It is recommended that nominators review the awards details and criteria prior to preparing nominations. For more information contact CGS Headquarters at:

The Canadian Geotechnical Society
8828 Pigott Road
Richmond, BC, V7A 2C4, Canada,
Tel: (604) 277 7527; 1 (800) 710-9867; Fax: (604) 277-7529
E-mail: cgs@cgs.ca

 

68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference
September 20 – September 23, 2015, Québec City, Québec

The Eastern Quebec Section of the Canadian Geotechnical Society and the Canadian National Committee for the International Permafrost Association (CNC-IPA), invite you to GéoQuébec 2015, for the joint 68th Canadian Geotechnical and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference. The conference will be held from September 20 - 23, 2015 in the Convention Centre in Québec City, Québec. It will cover a wide range of topics, including speciality sessions that are of local and national relevance to the fields of geo-engineering, permafrost and engineering geology. In addition to the technical program and plenary sessions, the conference will include a complement of workshops, short courses, technical excursions and local tours.

The conference theme Challenges from North to South, reflects the diverse and complex challenges that the geotechnical, cold regions engineering and permafrost communities will need to address in order to support sustainable economic development. The Local Organizing Committee invites members from the Canadian and international communities to contribute papers on their recent research and advancements in geotechnical, geo-environmental and cold regions engineering, as well as permafrost science.

For more information regarding sessions, topics and the technical program, please visit the web site www.geoquebec2015.ca or contact Jean Côté (Conference Co-Chair - geotechnical) at jean.cote@geoquebec2015.ca or Michel Allard (Conference co-Chair - permafrost at michel.allard@geoquebec2015.ca. For geotechnical contributions, please contact Didier Perret (Technical Program co-Chair) at comtec_geot@geoquebec2015.ca and for permafrost and cold region engineering contributions, Richard Fortier (Technical Program co-Chair) at comtec_perg@geoquebec2015.ca.

 

11th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering
July 21 – July 24, 2015, Victoria, British Columbia

The 11th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering will be held July 21-24, 2015 in Victoria, British Columbia. The conference theme is “Facing Seismic Risk”, encompassing seismic hazards, engineering, societal planning and response, facility performance, codes and standards.

The west coast of British Columbia is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the most earthquake prone regions in the world. We are at the collision of two of the largest tectonic plates on the planet. The risks of a major damaging earthquake along BC’s west coast are greater than anywhere else in Canada as we face seismic hazards from four distinct sources. Shallow crustal and deeper sub-crustal events are our most frequent occurrences along with regular events from the Queen Charlotte transform fault. We are also facing the next mega-thrust from the Cascadia Subduction Zone which can cause a subduction earthquake as powerful as those that recently struck Chile and Japan with the attendant tsunami. These earthquakes could potentially cause severe damage and loss of life.

The focus of the 11th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering is on identifying the risks we are facing, sharing the latest research and advances in seismic engineering and knowledge and encouraging and facilitating engineering practice that will enable us to prepare, protect, mitigate and recover. Please join us in beautiful Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, located on Vancouver Island. Experience nature and networking, engage with colleagues and locals, and leave feeling inspired and informed. For more information, visit the conference website www.canadianearthquakeconference.ca or secretariat.ccee@caee-acgp.ca.

 

Heritage Committee - History of Local Chapters of the Canadian Geotechnical Society

The CGS Heritage Committee believes that the history of the local chapters of the Canadian Geotechnical Society to be valuable part of the Society and its members. The CGS Heritage Committee would like to assemble if at all possible, a collection of historical summaries of all the chapters. Hopefully these stories will encourage other local chapters of the CGS to gather their archives and write their own history.

If you have any questions or have other historical information that you wish to share or know of any opportunities to acquire material that is at risk of being lost, please contact the Chair of the CGS Heritage Committee, Suzanne Powell, P.Eng., at spowell@thurber.ca.







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