Established in 1977, the CGS Colloquium is an annual commissioned presentation and a journal paper. Along with the honour comes a $5,000 honorarium provided by Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique. It is targeted towards a younger CGS member to provide information of particular interest to the geotechnical community on topics of importance to the Canadian geotechnical field. A younger CGS member is typically regarded as being less than 40 years of age, with preference given to candidates 33 to 38 years of age at the time of nomination.
Nominations can be made by any CGS member. Nominations for the 46th Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium, which will be presented at the 2022 annual conference, are due by January 31, 2021. The selection will be made by the CGS Geotechnical Research Board in April 2021, 18 months prior to the presentation.
The nomination submission should include:
Contact the CGS National Office at admin@cgs.ca for more information or to send in your nomination.
The 45th Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium will be presented at GeoNiagara 2021 by Renato Macciotta Pulisci of the University of Alberta.