Have some GeoNews that doesn't fit in another category? Here's the place. Try to keep it at least somewhat on topic.
Golder held an internal technical excellence conference, known as GTEC, late last year with over 200 participants from around the world. They selected 80 presenters from over 300 abstracts submitted. I was proud and humbled […]
One of my favorite geology bloggers is David Bressan, a regular contributor to Forbes.com. He collated his favorite geology-related stories of 2018 recently, and there is some great stuff in there. Here is a small […]
The Terracon Foundation announced a $100,000 grant to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) for a new geotechnical laboratory planned as part of the CEE […]
The basement foundation and retaining walls of the World Trade Center, sometimes referred to as the bathtub, were the only portion of the structure that survived the collapse of the towers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. […]
Geotechnical contractor Nicholson Construction has brought out a hilarious marketing slogan for the NAT 2018 tunneling conference happening this week in Washington D.C. If you are at the conference, go visit them in Booth 505 and maybe […]
The American Geosciences Institute has an interesting article on the recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 which provides record funding for geoscience agencies. This includes a $63M or 6% increase for the USGS compared […]
A new blog post from GeoEngineers about website bios gives some great insights into the culture at that employee owned company. Their Director of Marketing and Communication, Chris Nordfors, noted the initial panic and concern […]
Fugro just announced a contract with a mineral exploration company that will have them performing ultra-deepwater surveys to collect high-resolution imagery, geophysical data, and perform sampling of the sea floor to support mining of polymetallic […]
The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust is accepting applications from civil engineering students (from select schools) interested in a career in the deep foundations industry. The $5,000 Michael L. Condon Civil Engineering Scholarship is open […]
When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in August of 2017, the Lumpkin Road detention pond flooded and receded multiple times and performed exactly as engineered. Some areas of Houston received 40 inches (1 meter) of rain in […]
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