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Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS)
www.australiangeomechanics.org
The AGS was founded in 1970 and is jointly sponsored by Engineers Australia and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. It has some 1,350 members for whom it provides a significant quantity and quality of CPD.
AGS arranges specialty conferences, symposia, seminars and workshops for its members and the wider geotechnical professions through its Chapters in each State capital and Newcastle, and the four yearly ANZ Geomechanics conference. The next ANZ Geomechanics conference will be held in Melbourne in 2011.
Our Distinguished Speakers programme in 2009 included Dr Fred Baynes (Australia), Dr Clive Baker (USA) and Prof S Sakurai (Japan).
Communication
AGS produces a successful newsletter and journal Australian Geomechanics four times a year. Our website was upgraded in March 2009, and contains information about Society prizes and awards, upcoming conferences and useful links.
Awards
- Joel Gniel was awarded the Don Douglas Youth Fellowship award for best paper from an Australian author at the Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference in Wellington, New Zealand in November 2008.
- Dr Peter Mitchell received the Geotechnical Practitioner of the Year award for 2008.
- The 2008 Trollope Medal was awarded to Dr Xiangtau Xu for the paper “Pile and penetrometer end bearing resistance in two layered soil profile” published in Geotechnique in 2008.
- The 2008 Australian Geomechanics award for the bestpaper published in AG that year was awarded to BrianBurman, Gary Mostyn and David Piccolo for their paper“Experiences with post-construction re-testing of engineering clay fills”.
International Standing
Australia and New Zealand continue to be well represented in international societies:
- Dr Fred Baynes is President of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG); Alan Moon is the V-P for Australasia
- Tony Meyers is the V-P for Australasia to the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM)
- Prof John Carter is the V-P for Australasia to the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE); John will be succeeded by Professor Mike Davies of Auckland University at the 17th International ISSMGE Conference in Alexandria in October 2009.
The next IAEG Congress will be held in Auckland in 2010.
Neil D Benson
Chair
