Geo-Institute Website Changes
Conferences
End of Geo-Frontiers 2011 Conference
The Geo-Frontiers conference concluded last week, and according to their website, they had a record setting 1,900+ attendees! There are Day 2 and Day 3 videos from Magnus Media Group that have some nice interviews […]
Rockman's Ramblings
ASCE G-I: Proposed “Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Practice”
Most geotechs are familiar with the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (JGGE), one of the (if not the) premier journal in the industry. It’s published by the ASCE’s Geo-Institute (G-I) and accounts for about 20% of the revenue of the G-I organization.
The G-I’s President, Dr. Jean-Louis Briaud, convened a task force in early 2009 to investigate if the JGGE is “adequately serving as a venue for practice oriented papers.” According to the final report from the Proposed "Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Practice" Task Force, the reason for the task force is that:
Conferences
Livestream the Keynotes from GeoCongress 2022!
The Geo-Institute’s GeoCongress 2022 conference in Charlotte North Carolina is well underway. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend this year, but I don’t have to miss out on this year’s keynote speakers, and neither do […]