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That’s right, it can operate in 3,000 meters of water, and it can drill and sample up to 150-meters below the ocean floor while being operated remotely from a ship above the drill site. [Source: […]
Came accross and interesting profile of this gentleman from FEMA who is their top Dam Safety expert. James Demby is the senior technical and policy adviser and program manager for the FEMA National Dam Safety […]
This is a really great little article that interviews Jonathan Bray, professor of civil engineering at Berkley. He describes geotechnical engineering for the layman as well as modern day earthquake engineering. He also briefly discusses […]
The winter 2011 issue of the Deep Foundations Institute magazine profiles DBA founder Dan Brown, a very prominent figure in the geotechnical industry and one of the most well known experts in deep foundations. The […]
Most geoengineers I know are comfortable using Excel’s curve fitting functionality on a Chart. Have you ever found yourself manually copying the coefficients from the resulting equation on the chart into cells to program the […]
The century-old PATH subway tunnels underneath the Hudson River were not excavated through bedrock, but rather under a thick layer of silt and clay. Apparently there is a a sufficient security concern to warrant protecting […]
Researchers in the University of Arizona’s Compressed Air Energy Storage or CAES program are studying ways to store renewable energy in the form of compressed air. They are looking at various options, from tanks similar […]
I can’t believe it’s that time of year again. Here are the top 100 geotechnical engineering, geological engineering, engineering geology and geoconstruction articles posted in 2010! As I have mentioned before, I don’t like to rank based purely on the number of hits since it biases content that has been published for longer. Instead, I normalize to hits per day. As a bonus, I threw in the top 100 of all time based purely on hits. Without further ado…
A magnetometer and some batteries from the back of a stolen pickup truck belonging to Quantec Geoscience caused a bomb scare in Kamloops, B.C. last Saturday. The local police bomb squad thought it looked suspicious […]
The Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG) is pleased to announce the Winter, 2011 series of review courses for the ASBOG® geology licensing exam and/or the California Supplemental exam taught by REG REVIEW, Inc. AEG and REG REVIEW, Inc. have partnered to provide these courses since 1992. In the Winter of 2011, ten one-day review courses for the ASBOG® licensing exam will be offered regionally throughout the U.S., these ten courses will be spread out into the following regions, the West Coast (which includes the Pacific Northwest as well as Northern and Southern California locations), the Eastern US, and the Central U.S. The California locations now consist of 2 sections — one day for the ASBOG® exam and part of a day for the CA Supplemental exam. Specific locations are listed below.
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