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Special Welcome Message from Scott Burns IAEG Welcome to the 303rd IAEG Connector, the electronic newsletter connecting environmental and engineering geologists around the world! This week we have the announcement of the next Minex meeting in Kazakhstand, a very interesting e-YEG webinar and the call for nominations for two of our AEG awards. This was a week of earthquakes around the world: a M7.4 quake in Taiwan plus lots of landslides; a 6.8 quake in the Mariana Islands and a rare 4.8 quake outside of New York City (M4.8). We also highlighted a landslide in Sweden. Enjoy! The 14th MINEX Kazakhstan Mining and Exploration Forum The forthcoming April forum anticipates over 100 speakers and approximately 400 attendees from Kazakhstan and countries across Europe, North and Latin America, South Africa, Australia, China, India, Mongolia, Malaysia, and New Zealand. This year's event is poised to witness a record influx of foreign investors keen on exploring and developing precious metals, copper, coal, lithium, uranium, as well as rare and rare-earth metal deposits, marking a historic milestone for the Forum.Read More    Call for nominations for Vice President of YEG for 2024-2026 IAEG This is a call for nominations for the position of Vice President of the Young Engineering Geologist (YEG) group of the IAEG for the 2024-2026 term of office. This is a new position, which was created by Council at their meeting in Chengdu, China in September 2023 and replaces the former position of YEG Chair. The YEG group was established to promote the interest of those members of the IAEG who are under 40 years old. The VP-YEG will provide leadership for this group and represent them on the Executive Committee.Read More Third Summer School of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment The 2024 IAEG Summer School will analyze natural hazards and consequent risks in different environments and landscapes, defining multidisciplinary methods and tools for describing and analysing processes, and exploring the recent approaches used to limit the impact on human settlements and infrastructures, including nature-based solutions.Learn More IAEG Electronic Newsletter 2023 Issue No.4 — Dec. 31, 2023 IAEG Congratulations to our staff at our home office in China! They have produced probably the best ever electronic newsletter for IAEG. There are over 75 pages of great information! Here is the table of contents for you to see what is in the newsletter:
Online survey of IAEG members now available IAEG All IAEG members are asked to fill out the survey (click on the link below) to help leadership in making decisions in the future. Stay up-to-date in the engineering geological field by following us! IAEG LinkedIn: @International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment Facebook: @IAEG Instagram: @iaegenv Twitter: @IAEG_AIGI YouTube — IAEG Channel: @iaegchannel3736 YEG List of articles in the Bulletin of Engineering Geology IAEG Click here to read April 2023. Click here to read May 2023. Click here to read June 2023.
Forming a national group IAEG The organization of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment is generally conducted through National Groups, although individual membership is also permitted. Associate membership is encouraged and wherever possible associate members will form part of a National Group. Groups of engineering geologists wishing to form a National Group should contact the Secretary General who will assist them in preparing their application for consideration by the Executive Committee and Council.Read More Submit a photo of engineering geology in action to the IAEG Connector IAEG The executive committee of IAEG at our recent meeting in Athens suggested we need to have a good photo at the beginning of every IAEG Connector about engineering geology. We have to be careful about publishing photos because of copyright laws. So, we are asking our members to submit photos that they will allow us to use in our newsletter. The photos will show the diversity of what we do! They can be photos of something geological or engineering geologists working on some project. The photographer will get credit for the photo in the newsletter. If you would like to submit a photo for us to review, send it to Scott Burns, Editor.
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Landslide in Stenungsund, Sweden: A case study in geotechnical challenges Eos Delving into a recent landslide event in Stenungsund, Sweden, it highlights the geotechnical complexities involved and the lessons learned from the incident. Triggered by heavy rainfall and soil saturation, the landslide caused significant damage to infrastructure and posed risks to nearby residential areas. Detailed analysis revealed the role of various factors such as geological conditions, land use and human activities in influencing slope stability.Read More Initial news about landslides from the April 3, 2024 M=7.2 earthquake in Taiwan Eos At 07:58 local time on April 2, 2024 an earthquake struck the central East Coast of Taiwan, close to the city of Hualien. Initial reports from the Central Weather Administration Seismological Center, the local seismic agency, estimates that this was a ML=7.2 event at a depth of 15.5 km with an epicentre at (23.77, 121.66). Such an event is inevitably damaging, although the high level of earthquake preparedness in Taiwan will hugely mitigate the human losses. This area is known to have a very high level of seismic hazard, so much has been done since the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in west Taiwan to build resilience.Read More 300,000-year-old wooden tools provide rare insight into Neanderthal society LiveScience A detailed study of the richest haul of Paleolithic wooden tools has provided unmatched insight into the lifestyles of Neanderthals living a little over 300,000 years ago in what is now northern Germany.Read More 6.8 magnitude earthquake registered near Mariana Islands; so far no tsunami threat issued MSN A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the Mariana Islands Friday morning, the United States Geological Survey is reporting. The notable quake was recorded just after 6 a.m. local time (4 p.m. ET Thursday), according to the USGS, in the Maug Islands region near Saipan, the northern-most largest of the Mariana Island.Read More Earthquake centered near New York City rattles Big Apple, Northeast Belgrade News An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with residents across the Northeast reporting rumbling in a region where people are unaccustomed to feeling the ground move.Read More The Spanish Peaks in Southern Colorado, USA, are a piece of the geological puzzle of why the High Plains are so high CPR Geographically the two distinctive summits known as the Spanish Peaks on the horizon west of Walsenburg are part of the Rocky Mountains. But geologically, they're different. They weren't created by movement of the earth's crust. Instead, they were formed by volcanic activity deep underground around 24 million years ago.Read More New step in tectonic squeeze that turns seafloor into mountains ScienceDaily Researchers describe zircons from the Andes mountains of Patagonia. Although the zircons formed when tectonic plates were colliding, they have a chemical signature associated with when the plates were moving apart. The researchers think that the unexpected signature could be explained by the mechanics of underlying tectonic plates that hasn't yet been described in other models. Read More Science Headlines
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