The Geo-Institute’s Geo-Frontiers conference was held recently in Orlando Florida. On March 14, 2017, they presented their awards, including the prestigious Karl Terzaghi Award, the Ralph Peck Award and others. This video was shown at the awards banquet. It’s a nice video,rn but they need to instruct their voice actor how to say geotechnical…it’s not ‘Geo Technical’! [Source: Watch the video at the Geo-Institute YouTube Channel. Image: YouTube]
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