Two candidates have been nominated for the position of Secretary General of the IAEG for the period January 2011 to December 2014, to be elected by the IAEG Council in Auckland in September 2010. For more background information on the candidates and their views on the future of the IAEG, please click on their name.

MARTIN CULSHAW (UK)

FAQUAN WU (P.R. CHINA)

8/1/2010 - 10/31/2010

Four candidates have been nominated for the position of President of the IAEG for the period January 2011 to December 2014, to be elected by the IAEG Council in Auckland in September 2010. Their photographs are shown below in alphabetical order. For more background information on the candidates and their views on the future of the IAEG, please click the link behind their name.

Scott Burns (USA) (IAEG vice president N.America)   Brief presentation	Francisco Nogueira de Jorge (Brazil) (IAEG vice president S. America)  Brief presentation
Carlos Delgado (Spain) (IAEG vice president Europe)  Brief presentation	Philip Paige-Green (South Africa) (IAEG vice president Africa)  Brief presentation

6/1/2010 - 8/1/2010

Dr. Faquan WU, the vice president of IAEG for Asia, has visited the Indian National Group of IAEG and attended the council meeting of the Indian Society of Engineering Geology (ISEG) in Delhi during February 4 to 8, 2010.

He met the president of ISEG, Dr P. C. Nawani and the secretary general of IAEG India National Group, Dr. Y. Deva, and conveyed the regards from the president of IAEG, Dr. Fred Baynes. Then he introduced the recent work and the modernization plan of IAEG at the council meeting, and discussed issues that IAEG concerns with including participating in IAEG2010 in Auckland, the 8th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG, activities of IAEG and membership recruitment in india, and nomination of  candidates for IAEG vice president for Asia, for the Hans Cloos medal and Richard Wolters prize, etc.

The ISEG board presented the progress made for the preparation of the International Conference on Underground Space Technology and the 8th Asian Conference of the IAEG organized by ISEG and to be held in Bangalore 17-19 January 2011.

After the council meeting, Dr. Wu attended a geotechnical workshop held by the Delhi-NCR Chapter of ISEG and gave a presentation on “Brief introduction to geo-hazard prevention in Three Gorges Project area”.

Dr. WU also discussed the issue of academic exchange and research collaboration among the Asian countries with the leaders of ISEG, and a program of collaboration between China and India is to be initiated soon.

For more details on the visit of Dr. Wu and the 8th Asian Conference please refer to the ISEG Newsletter April 2010. Or visit the ISEG website at www.isegindia.org

5/1/2010 - 6/1/2010

The “Hans Cloos Medal” is the senior award presented by IAEG, given to an engineering geologist of outstanding merit in commemoration of Hans Cloos, the "founder of geomechanics". The recipient should therefore be a person of international repute who has made a major contribution to engineering geology in his/her written papers or to the development of engineering geology and/or the IAEG in their own area. The Executive Committee of the IAEG has decided during its meeting in Chengdu to award the 2010 Hans Cloos Medal to Prof. Martin Culshaw from the UK.

Martin Culshaw is an independent researcher and consultant. Till April 2008 he was Director of Environment and Hazards at the British Geological Survey (BGS) and the Survey's Chief Engineering Geologist. He has been involved in engineering geological research, environmental and engineering geological mapping, geohazard assessment, site investigation, urban geoscience and the application of geology to land-use planning for over thirty eight years. During this time he has spent a number of years overseas in Asia, Africa, Europe and Central America.

He is Visiting Honorary Professor in Engineering Geology in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham and an Honorary Research Associate at the BGS. He has published over one hundred and forty papers, books and articles and over a hundred and ten technical reports for the BGS, UK and overseas government departments and private clients. He edited nine conference proceedings, as well as organising numerous meetings and conferences and has served on three journal editorial boards.

He is currently an Assistant Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. He received the Engineering Group of the Geological Society’s Award for 1989 and was the Geological Society’s Glossop Lecturer in 2004, receiving the Glossop Medal, and received the E B Burwell Jr Award from the Geological Society of America in 2006.

For the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment, Martin served for many years as Chair of Commission 1 “Engineering Geological Mapping” and played a central role in the organisation of the 10th IAEG International Congress in 2006 in Nottingham, of which he also edited the Proceedings. He was a member of the IAEG UK National Group Committee from 1983-87 and 1989-92, Vice-Chair from 1992-94, Chair from 1994-96 and the IAEG UK representative on Council from 2002-06. He is currently a member of Commission 25 “Use of Engineering Geological Models”.

The Hans Cloos Medal will be awarded to Martin Culshaw in Auckland in 2010, during the 11th IAEG International Congress.

4/1/2010 - 5/1/2010

ABGE (Associação Brasileira de Geologia de Engenharia e Ambiental), the Brazilian National Group of IAEG, is happy to submit the candidature of São Paulo for hosting the 12th International Congress of IAEG in 2014.

2014 will be unique for the Engineering Geology in Brazil.

Major infrastructure developments due to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are expected to boost the demands for Engineering Geology works and environmental solutions.

ABGE, the Brazilian National Group, will be honoured to organise the 12th International Congress in the city of São Paulo and to celebrate with all IAEG members the 40th anniversary of the Second International Congress held in São Paulo – a bench mark for the development of Engineering Geology in Brazil.

3/1/2010 - 4/1/2010