The Canadian Geotechnical Society
The Calendar of Events lists upcoming Canadian Geotechnical Society sponsored or co-sponsored events, and other geotechnically-related events in Canada, the USA and elsewhere.
Use the selection boxes provided to search for events by Year, Geographic Location (as per CGS Section catchment areas), and Practice Area (as per CGS Technical Division geotechnical practice areas).
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Year: Geographic Region: Practice Area:
Highlighted listings indicate CGS-sponsored events| Date | Location | Event | Contact |
| Sep 06-07, 2018 | Switzerland | International Conference on Earth Science and Climate Change Earth Science 2018 aims to gather eminent scientists, research scholars, notable society, and educationists and professionals to express their views on the latest technologies, trends and concerns in Earth Science and Climate Change. | See Website or Contact earthscience@meetingint.org |
| Sep 17-21, 2018 | San Francisco, California, USA | 61st AEG Annual Meeting/13th IAEG Congress AEG is partnering with the International Association of Engineering Geologists and the Environment (IAEG) to host the first ever Congress in the United States in IAEG’s 54-year history. The 2018 meeting will have a five-day format featuring prominent national and international keynote speakers, four days of technical sessions and symposia, and an all-day Wednesday tour of local geology for full meeting registrants and guests. The deadline for submission of published paper abstracts is June 30, 2017. | See Website or Contact contact@aegweb.org |
| Sep 23-26, 2018 | Edmonton, AB | GeoEdmonton 2018 The 71st Annual CGS Conference and 13th Joint CGS/IAH-CNC Groundwater Conference will take place at the Shaw Centre September 23-26, 2018. Abstracts are due by December 31, 2017. | See Website or Contact sponsors@geoedmonton2018.ca |
| Sep 26-28, 2018 | Lausanne, Switzerland | International Symposium on Energy Geotechnics (SEG-2018) The International Symposium on Energy Geotechnics (SEG) is organized under the auspices of the Technical Committee on Energy Geotechnics (TC-308) of the ISSMGE. Recognizing the strong need for shared knowledge in innovative and challenging applications on energy geotechnics, SEG aims to serve as a forum for promoting the exchange of ideas, practices and state-of-the-art on a broad range of topics in the area. The abstract submission deadline is October 30, 2017. | See Website or Contact seg2018@epfl.ch |
| Oct 15-17, 2018 | Vancouver, Canada | Fourth International Symposium on Block and Sublevel Cavingon The Australian Centre for Geomechanics looks forward to hosting the Fourth International Symposium on Block and Sublevel Caving. Abstracts are due by February 19, 2018. | See Website or Contact info-acg@uwa.edu.au |
| Oct 18, 2018 | Vancouver, Canada | ACG Ground Support in Cave Mining Workshop Professor Yves Potvin will facilitate this interactive and informative ACG workshop, which will explore both the technical and practical aspects of ground support in cave mining operations. The workshop is designed to assist mining personnel involved with the design and implementation of cave mining ground support. | See Website or Contact info-acg@uwa.edu.au |
| Oct 24-27, 2018 | Anaheim, CA | DFI 43rd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations This conference will feature technical presentations on innovations and advancements that address performance based design and construction of foundations subject to increasingly challenging structural demands. The 2018 Conference will provide an international forum for a wide range of geo-professionals to present, discuss, and debate all aspects of assessment,development, design and mitigation for complex loading conditions in the 21st Century. Abstract submission deadline is December 15, 2017. | See Website or Contact events@dfi.org |
| Nov 24-28, 2018 | Cairo, Egypt | GeoMEast 2018 International Congress and Exhibition GeoMEast 2018 will provide a showcase for recent developments and advancements in design, construction, and safety Inspections of transportation Infrastructures and offer a forum to discuss and debate future directions for the 21st century. | See Website or Contact info@ssige.org |
| Nov 29 - Dec 04, 2018 | Edmonton, AB, Canada | International Short Course on Permafrost Engineering: Effective Design and Construction in Permafrost Region This five-day course will cover a variety of topics, including the logistical challenges of building in Northern Regions, understanding the origin and different types of ground ice and evaluating and designing foundations and slopes in permafrost. | See Website or Contact sally.petaske@ualberta.ca |
| Dec 03-05, 2018 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | The Second JTC1 Workshop on Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides The Workshop will provide a platform to discuss the latest technical development and knowledge gaps with a view to promoting further advances in the understanding of the subject. The highlights of the Workshop include the Hutchinson Lecture, Hungr Oration, benchmarking exercise for landslide runout analysis, keynote addresses and special lectures. Extended abstracts are due by June 30, 2018. | See Website or Contact hkges@hkges.org |
| Dec 09-12, 2018 | Edmonton, AB, Canada | International Oil Sands Tailings Conference (IOSTC) 2018 Invited speakers and select technical presentations on topics including innovations in tailings management and dewatering technologies, regulatory policy and guidelines, mine waste structure integrity and closure/reclamation considerations. | See Website or Contact sally.petaske@ualberta.ca |
