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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.

Software Updates

Seequent to Begin Phasing Out gINT Support

February 14, 2023 rockman Comments Off on Seequent to Begin Phasing Out gINT Support

Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company, recently announced that they will begin phasing out support for the gINT geotechnical borehole and data management software by January 2026. In an email to users sent on February 1, […]

Turkey Earthquake victims share a hug
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Turkey Earthquake Reflections

February 11, 2023 rockman Comments Off on Turkey Earthquake Reflections

Geological engineers and engineering geologists are fascinated by the occurrence of natural hazards such as landslides, debris flows, rockslides, and earthquakes. At times we can feel almost giddy when looking at the destructive videos, and […]

Available Resources

Guidelines for Engineering Geologic Models

February 9, 2023 rockman Comments Off on Guidelines for Engineering Geologic Models

There is a new document available from IAEG titled “Guidelines for the development and application of engineering geologic models on projects.” The guidelines were created by members of the International Association of Engineering Geologists (IAEG) […]

Miscellaneous

Helical Piles: Have they arrived?

January 29, 2023 rockman Comments Off on Helical Piles: Have they arrived?

Helical piles have been a relatively new kid on the block since the mid to late 2000’s. In a recent DFI Rumble YouTube video series episode, Dr. Kevin Johnson and Ross McGillivray go toe-to-toe to […]

Project Related

Inside Finland’s Nuclear Waste Repository

January 17, 2023 rockman Comments Off on Inside Finland’s Nuclear Waste Repository

Finland has the world’s first commercial underground nuclear waste repository, and construction of the access works, infrastructure, and the first five disposal tunnels is essentially complete. I haven’t seen a timeline of when they will […]

Software Updates

GEO5 2023 Updates

November 30, 2022 rockman Comments Off on GEO5 2023 Updates

The GEO5 Suite of geotechnical software has some exciting new features in the latest updates! There is a new free mobile app called GEO5 Data Collector to allow field data collection and two-way sync with […]

2022 Michoacán Earthquake
Geologic Hazards

2022 Michoacan Earthquake GEER Report

November 14, 2022 rockman Comments Off on 2022 Michoacan Earthquake GEER Report

The Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) report for the moment magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck the Mexican State of Michoacan on September 19, 2022 is now available. The earthquake was an interface subduction earthquake along […]

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DFI Rumble: Numerical Modeler vs. Skeptic

October 31, 2022 rockman Comments Off on DFI Rumble: Numerical Modeler vs. Skeptic

I just watched a July episode of the DFI rumble that I missed before – the numerical modeler versus the skeptic. Approaching from the numerical modeling perspective was Augusto Lucarelli from Itasca (the makers of […]