Geophysical Engineering Committee Meeting

Sunday, May 18, 2008

7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Sacramento, California

Agenda

• Introduction

• Discussion on Technical Activities for future conferences by GEC

  • SAGEEP, April 2008 in Philadelphia, PA (Olson)

  • Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering & Soil Dynamics IV, Sacramento, 2008 (Hiltunen)

  • Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering & Environmental Impacts of Karst, 2008 Tallahassee, FL (Michael Byle)

  • SAGEEP, April 2009

    • Suggestions for Sessions

  • Foundations Congress w/ADSC & PDCA, Orlando March 15-19, 2009 (Mohamad Hussein)

  • Analysis and Design in Geotechnical Engineering, Miami (?), 2010 (Pat Fox)

  • 2010 Earth Retaining Structures Specialty conference, Phoenix, May 2010 (Hashash)

  • Others

• Membership Update/Rotation

• GEC Special Project Benchmarking of SASW Method (Hiltunen)

  • Any new Special Projects?

• Interaction with EEGS and Other Engineering Geophysics Groups

  • FHWA Geophysics (Haramy)

  • SAGEEP 2009 (Hoover/Luke)

  • TRB (Rivers)

  • Others

• Committee Performance Criteria (How to achieve, Volunteers and timeline)

  • Each Committee to Submit a Proposal for 1 short Course for Sections and Branches

  • Each Committee to Submit a Proposal for 2 Webinars

  • Each Committee to submit 4 Speaker’s Bureau Entries

  • Each Committee to Develop a Mission Statement

• GEC Webpage

  • http://cgiss.boisestate.edu/~pm/geoph_cmty/index.html or

  • http://www.geoinstitute.org/committees/committees.cfm

• Nomination for GI and ASCE Awards

  • How to do it more effectively

• Other Business