Weekend CUP

I flag tons of interesting news items over the course of a week. I usually like to summarize the article when I post about it and maybe add a photo or embed a video or something. But I don’t have nearly enough time to post everything I find. So I’m starting a (roughly) weekly post I’ll call my Weekend Catch-Up-Post or CUP for short. In these posts, I’ll simply present a bulleted list of news items I didn’t have time to write about. Enjoy!

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Weekend CUP May 3, 2010

May 3, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP May 3, 2010

Pomona Landslide Fear: Landslide Fear Shuts Down Part of 10 Freeway in Pomona – KTLA What caused Richmond sinkhole? Answer may lie in steel culvert pipe below – ContraCostaTimes.com via ASCE SmartBrief Natural disasters as […]

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Weekend CUP April 26, 2010

April 26, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP April 26, 2010

Some juicy geoengineering news items in this post. I could turn just about all of them into a separate blog post if I had time, maybe I still will for some of them. Don’t miss this list! All of the links are active when you view it on the site. If you’re looking at this in your RSS feed reader or on your daily email, you won’t see the actual links, sorry.

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Weekend CUP for April 20, 2010

April 20, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP for April 20, 2010

New images of the Attabad landslide – Dave’s Landslide Blog Southern California Quake Damaged Treatment and Storage Infrastructure – ENR: Engineering News Record Eyewitness Account of Chile Devastation in COPRI Blog – ASCE Team in […]

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Weekend CUP for April 13, 2010

April 14, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP for April 13, 2010

Subsidence Beneath a UK Sports Stadium | Geology.com Widespread landslides in Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi in Brazil – Dave’s Landslide Blog Contractor Cleared to Start Tunnel On Hetch Hetchy System Program – ENR: Engineering […]

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Weekend CUP April 5, 2010

April 5, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP April 5, 2010

Analysis: Dallas’ crucial levees only grew weaker as city debated park, toll road plans – Dallas Morning News via ASCE SmartBrief Geosoft 2010 Software Release Now Available – Geosoft.com Press Release Stalled eastern New Orleans […]

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Weekend CUP March 29, 2010

March 29, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP March 29, 2010

Howard Hanson Dam (Tacoma, Washington area): Peering into a leaky problem – The News Tribune In 2009, the Howard Hanson Dam was holding back water from a record storm. During that time, the US Army […]

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Weekend CUP March 22, 2010

March 22, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP March 22, 2010

Compressed air storage of renewable energy – Arizona Geology Parsons Brinckerhoff marks 125th anniversary – CE News Tunnel bids for Crossrail – New Civil Engineer Open to the public for the first time in 145 […]

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Weekend CUP March 15, 2010

March 15, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP March 15, 2010

Death toll in NW China landslide rises to 23 – China Daily Italian Team Repairing Collapsed Head-Race Tunnel at Ethiopian Dam – ENR: Engineering News Record OSHA Cites Company Following Trench Fatality – KPVI NEWS […]

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Weekend CUP March 8, 2010

March 8, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP March 8, 2010

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Weekend CUP March 1, 2010

March 1, 2010 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP March 1, 2010
  • Dam Safety News for January and February – Association of State Dam Safety Officials
  • Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping – Slashgeo
    "The Guide includes: * a brief introduction to mapping and GIS (geographic information systems) technology and concepts. * examples of successful nonprofit projects using GIS and/or mapping technologies. * helpful strategies for planning your own mapping/GIS project. * a review of public data sources with freely available data. * a brief review of free and low-cost tools for nonprofit mapping and GIS projects."
  • New Training Video on How to Heat Seam and Field Test Geomembranes – Cadwaller Technical Services via GeosyntheticsMagazine.com
    See the techniques of hot wedge welding, extrusion welding, hot air welding, destructive testing, and non-destructive testing demonstrated and discussed by one of the industry’s most experienced and qualified training teams. Includes information relevant to all geomembrane materials and all forms of heat seaming and heat seaming equipment. $80 plus $10 shipping for an 80-minute DVD broken up into 25 sections.
  • Polk County US-64 Rockslide Update – WTVC NewsChannel 9
  • Lessons to be learned from Haiti’s tsunami – BBC News via Ontario-geofish

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