NELSON BRANCH

Local geotechnical practitioners thoroughly enjoyed hosting the biennial NZGS symposium recently held at the Hotel Rutherford in Nelson. It was great to have the geotechnical community gathered in Nelson to enjoy Nelson’s finest.

Over 40 people attended a presentation by Dr Mike Johnston at the Nelson Club in late November last year. Mike’s talk titled ‘Mitigating Geohazards in the Community - The Nelson Response’ was very well received and has been presented as far a field as Tasmania.Other than that the local group has been pretty quiet.

Tim Coote

Tim is a Senior Engineering Geologist with Tonkin & Taylor Ltd in their Nelson office. Tim recently spent four years living in Colorado (1999 to 2003) working with SRK Consulting Ltd on mining development projects throughout South and Central America. Tim’s project experience also includes two multi-million dollar landslide investigation and remediation programs at Cromwell (The Clyde Power Project) and Waihi (The Golden Cross Project).

Phone (Wk): 07 839 9863
Email: tcoote@tonkin.co.nz