News, announcements, policy updates, spotlighted websites, software updates and other info that may be of interest to practicing geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, geophysicists, hydrogeologists and related professions.
I’m so happy to report that I’m a Daddy for the third time…and it’s a girl…for the third time as well! Gabby was born on 2/16/2011 and she is just as gorgeous as can be! […]
GeoPrac sponsor Moretrench is a key team member of the Second Avenue subway team, performing ground freezing on a 150-ft stretch of tunnel alignment in preparation for the second tunnel. ENR reports that approximately 7,200 […]
Google has launched a new beta service called Follow Your World that allows you to be notified by email when they add new imagery to an area or areas you specify. You could use it […]
An August 2010 FHWA Central Federal Lands report on corrosion of hollow bar soil nails has recently been made available on the NCS Consultants, LLC website. The authors of the report are Naresh Samtani and […]
Geotechnical engineering firm Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings was convicted today of Corporate Manslaughter in the death of geologist Alexander Wright. The accident occurred when Mr. Wright had entered a test pit to take soil samples and […]
The timber piles of the existing I-5 bridge over the Columbia River is vulnerable to liquefaction in the event of a major earthquake. And there is no shortage of potential sources for the shaking in […]
The FHWA Turner-Fairbanks Highway Research Center has issued a document to provide interim guidance on the implementation of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil or GRS Bridge Systems. From the foreward: Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil (GRS) technology consists of […]
A massive, possibly 50 million cubic meter landslide occurred on Thursday in Kahramanmaraş Province of Turkey. Not too many details yet, but early reports had 9 miners missing and 1 killed. The landslide occurred in […]
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 […]
A new book that may be of interest to folks. See the Geoengineer.org link for more info. A personal account of the role played by Rudolph Glossop, one of the founders of geotechnical engineering in […]
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