The parent organization of Ingeokring, KNGMG, will in cooperation with EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers), celebrate its 100-year anniversary with a one-day symposium titled "Earth Resources, The Next 100 Years". The symposium will be held on March 16, 2012 in the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

More information about the symposium can be found in the Final Announcement, on the KNGMG website, or on the EAGE website. You can register here for the symposium.

It has been a while since the last Ingeokring Newsletter was published (Special Investigation Techniques edition). The editorial team has been working hard to get a new edition out, and the moment is almost there. The theme of the upcoming Newsletter is Mining & Dredging, and will contain interesting articles on subsea cable installation for offshore wind farms, rock dredging, oil sands mining in Canada, mining of gas hydrates, and much more.

The Department of Geotechnical Engineering of Tongji University and the China National Group of IAEG organize the International Symposium on Coastal Engineering Geology (IS-Shanghai 2012).

From September 26-28, 2012 the 13th International Conference Geotechnics 2012 will be held in Grand Hotel Bellevue in Vysoké Tatry, Slovakia. Subtitle of the conference is Constructions, Technologies, and Risk.

The conference will be organized by the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic). Register before February 15, 2012 by filling out this preliminary registration form. More information can be found in the preliminary invitation and call for papers.

Ingeokring offers companies the possibility to place their logo on this website. Besides sponsoring through an advert in our Newsletter, this is an other possibility to bring your company under the attention of Ingeokring members and others interested in engineering geology. An example of website sponsoring can be found at the main page of this website.

Costs attached to sponsoring the website through a logo or banner are 300 euro per year. For more information, please contact Ingeokring through the details listed in the contact section.

From May 28-30, 2012, ISSMGE Technical Committee TC 203 (Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Associated Problems), European Technical Committee ERTC-12 on the Application of Eurocode 8, and the Italian Geotechnical Association will organize the Second International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering.

From May 30 to June 1, 2012 the Belgian Building Research Institute (BBRI) and ISSMGE Technical Committee TC 211 (Ground Improvement) will organize IS-GI Brussels 2012: Recent Research, Advances & Execution Aspects of Ground Improvement Works.

 
From June 17-23, 2012 Surveying Geology & mining Ecology Management (SGEM) will organize in Albena, Bulgaria the SGEM 2012: 12th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geo-Conference & Expo.

All interested in the development of contemporary geoscience on a local, regional and global scale are kindly invited to submit abstracts of their unpublished researches. The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 10, 2012. More information about SGEM 2012 is published on the conference website.

The Canadian Geotechnical Society, the Association of Engineering Geologists and the Joint Technical Committee on Landslides (JTC-1) invite you to the 11th International Symposium on Landslides (ISL) and the 2nd North American Symposium on Landslides (NASL) at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada from June 3 to 8, 2012. The theme of the symposium will be Landslides and Engineered Slopes: Protecting Society through Improved Understanding.

In May, Whittles Publishing will publish the Manual of Soil Laboratory Testing (Volume 2: Permeability, Shear Strength and Compressibility Tests) by K.H. Head and R. Epps. This is the second volume of a series of three and relates to Parts 1, 5 and 7 of BS 1377:1990, plus the California bearing ratio (CBR) test in Part 4.

Please click here for the press release about the book. The book can be purchased through the website of Whittles Publishing.

CIRIA (Construction Industry Research and Information Association) is the UK equivalent of our own CUR. CIRIA also publishes handbookes, manuals, guidelines etc. on a regular basis. Recently, a few new publications have seen daylight. Some of them will be listed below.

A.P. van den Berg, the company from Heerenveen that has more than 40 years experience in designing and producing soil investigation technologies, has announced that it has succesfully tested its newest deep water CPT system, the Deep Water WISON-APB.

Click here for the press release.

 
Whittles Publishing has recently published an interesting book about one of the great geotechnical engineers of the 20th century, Rudolph Glossop (1902-1993).

Please click here for the press release about the book. The book can be purchased through the website of Whittles Publishing.