Fiona hits Atlantic Canada: Climate change means the region will see more frequent storms theconversation.com/fiona-hits-atl… via The Conversation Canada

Excellent keynote presentations by Heinrich Heinz and Pooneh Maghoul at the Young Professionals Conference of the CGS being held in Banff. This wonderful group of Geotechnical Engineers and Geoscientist shows he great future of our profession. The Canadian Geotechnical Society

Jocelyn Hayley paying tribute to her family roots near the start of her extraordinary and inspiring RM Hardy Lecture “Permafrost Thaw in a Changing Climate; a Geotechnical Perspective“ to open the 75th Can. Geotech. Conf. The Canadian Geotechnical Society⁩ geocalgary2022.ca

Thanks for joining us in Calgary Brad Keelor and for being present to renew our The Canadian Geotechnical Society - Geo-Institute of ASCE partnership! Thanks also for adding to the fun of the conference opening ceremony.

Ken Skaftfeld making a #GeoCalgary2022 plenary presentation with Rob Kenyon and others describing the status of the The Canadian Geotechnical Society Foundtn Engrg Manual upgrade project. Many important changes. Stay tuned for release next spring. Thanks Ken, Rob & their team of >100 contributors

Hear hear! Both the leadership and individual contributions coming from women in our Society are superb, and is very encouraging regarding the present status and future of the CGS.

On behalf of The Canadian Geotechnical Society I congratulate you President Nikolaou and look forward to strong collaboration between our two organizations.

Wonderful celebrating with Rob Cichocki his graduation from ⁦@queens_civil⁩ with his PhD this afternoon. He richly deserves this - with excellent contributions to analysis & testing of polymer liners in corrugated steel pipes. Now if I could learn how to wear my PhD hood:-)

It was wonderful to see Suzanne Lacasse recognized in this way for here extraordinary contributions to the theory and application of Geotechnique! Bravo Suzanne!

Enjoy it while lasts. As a Lecturer in Oz I was offered the new first year package for years when I went to do my part in the annual enrolment process for undergrad students. It stopped years ago and for very good reasons it is not going to happen any more

Congrats Ranlin Qiu for your great defence of your @queens_civil MASc on Tuesday (work on pressure pipe liners crossing metal pipe deterioration). Thanks fellow supervisor Neil.Hoult, examiners Fady Abdelaal & Josh Woods and chair Richard Brachman.

Congrats from all your colleagues in @queens_civil and the GeoEng Centre Kerry!

Zahra Joneidi and Russell Jackson are working to instrument two concrete pipe culverts for testing in the West pit at Queen’s west campus. This is for experiments after these pipes are lined with Cured In Place Pipe liners.

I learned today of the passing of Dr Michael Maher - a wonderful research collaborator whose generous contributions of his time facilitated a number of large research projects with our GeoEng Centre - @queens_civil team funded by NSERC / CRSNG. golder.com/news/rememberi… RIP mate!

Russell Jackson has developed a rational design model for sprayed cementitious liners used in repair of deteriorated concrete sewer pipes, addressing four different states of deterioration (work jointly supervised with Aikaterini Genekomsou) authors.elsevier.com/c/1gHKl39eM4ID…

It is great to be back in Washington at TRB after three years of absence. I’m catching up with lots of people including fellow Canadians Meckkey El Sharnouby and Kevin Williams of Atlantic Industries.

Congrats to Dr Oliver Kearns on his graduation. His studies quantified how strength of corrugated steel culverts is influenced by shallow cover, or flooding that brings groundwater above the crown, or erosion of surrounding backfill - all of practical significance.