Dr. Thomas O’Rourke of Cornell University will start his 10-city Cross Canada Lecture Tour in Montréal on May 14 and finish it in Winnipeg on May 25. Check www.cgs.ca under ‘Upcoming Events’ and ‘Cross-Canada Lecture Tour’ for a schedule of locations, dates, times, and lecture topics to be posted later this month.
The CCLT lecture series is generously sponsored by the Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique – corporate sponsors of the spring lecture include Klohn Crippen Berger, Thurber Engineering, TetraTech Canada, and Clifton Associates.
Planning is underway for a live webcast of Dr. O’Rourke’s Tuesday, May 15 lecture from St. John’s on ‘Lessons Learned for Ground Movements and Soil Stabilization from the Boston Central Artery’. A special e-news will be sent to all CGS members as the operational details of the webcast is finalized.