2008

Aug 11 - 16	Washington DC	6th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering and Symposium in Honor of Professor James K Mitchell	Website
Sept 4 - 5	Auckland, NZ	New Zealand Geotechnical Society Geotechnical Symposium.  The theme will be Soil-structure interaction – From rules of thumb to reality.   Call for papers now open and will close on 15th March 2008.  See website for more details.	Website
Sept 7 - 10	Edinburgh, Scotland	EurGeo4 – 4th European Geosynthetics Conference will be held at the Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.   The EurGeo4 conference will debate the subject of Geosynthetics in Civil Engineering Applications within a 3 day event comprising keynote lectures, paper presentations, discussions and poster sessions.   Submission of abstracts is invited for either verbal or poster presentations.	Website
Sept 15 - 19	Madrid	Euroengeo 2008 will take place in Madrid and will permit the exchange of ideas and knowledge between specialists and experts in the field of geology applied to engineering.   The papers will be fundamentally based on “The city and its subterranean environment”.  This however, does not imply any restrictions for other related fields of activity in this second edition of Euroengeo.   Themes include new methods of tunneling in urban areas, solid waste disposal in the vicinity of large urban developments, rehabilitation of historical areas in cities, erosion prone materials, geological risks in cities, education and training in engineering geology.   Abstracts due 30th Jun 2008.  Abstracts (max 500 words) to be send to the Scientific Committee	Website
Sept 16 - 19	Perth, Australia	1st Southern Hemisphere International Rock Mechanics Symposium	Website
Sept 24	Newcastle, Australia	Pit to Port.  Geotechnics of the Hunter Valley Coal Supply Chain, Mini-Symposium	Info
Sept 24 - 26	Auckland	Civil Engineering Testing Conference 2008.  “The Road Ahead …”	Website
Oct 1 - 6	IIT, Bombay, India	12th International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics.	Website
Nov 5 - 8	Wellington, NZ	8th Australia – New Zealand Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference will be hosted in Wellington for geotechnical professionals from Australia and New Zealand, who are less than 35 years of age with a maximum of 10 years’ experience.	Website

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