PHOTO: Dr. Virginia Smith (left) and Dr. Kristin Sample-Lord (right) at Villanova’s graduation ceremony. Dr. Smith received the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Teaching award while IGS-NA President-Elect Dr. Sample-Lord received the Mid-Career Service Award.
Recognitions for career activity are pouring in for Dr. Kristin Sample-Lord, P.E.–IGS North America’s President-Elect. Dr. Sample-Lord has received two awards just this month:
At GeoAmericas 2024 in Toronto this month, the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) recognized members from IGS Chapters in the Americas for their beneficial impact on chapter initiatives. Only one person per chapter can receive the Chapter Service Award. In the Americas, the awards are given out every four years at the GeoAmericas conference.
IGS North America recognized Dr. Sample-Lord for her leadership in the on-going Testing Innovation Fellowship program, which provides research stipends to students whose work can help expedite a new or revised standard with ASTM International Committee D35 on Geosynthetics. The fellowship program is jointly supported by IGS North America, the Geosynthetic Institute (GSI), and Committee D35.
The Mid-Career Service Award recognizes faculty members who “have made extraordinary contributions to the welfare and functioning of their departments, colleges, the University, and their profession.” Dr. Sample-Lord is an Associate Professor and Interim Department Chair in Villanova’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Only one Mid-Career Service Award is given out per year.
Villanova presented Dr. Sample-Lord with the honor’s medallion during the recent graduation ceremony.
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Congratulations KSL on the awards! Well deserved.
Since 1999, the Ralph B. Peck Award from the ASCE Geo-Institute has recognized outstanding contributions to the geotechnical engineering profession through the publication of “thoughtful, carefully researched case history or histories, or the publication of recommended practices or design methodologies based on the evaluation of case histories.”
IGS North America congratulates chapter member and former IGS President, Dr. Jorge Zornberg, P.E., F. ASCE, who was selected as the 2024 Peck Award Winner. Dr. Zornberg presented the lecture in Vancouver, British Columbia during GeoCongress 2024. See a video of it below.
Dr. Zornberg holds the Brunswick-Abernathy Regents Professorship in Soil Dynamics & Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has over 35 years of experience in research and practice in geotechnical, geosynthetics, transportation, and geoenvironmental engineering. In 2023, he recognized with Honorary Membership in IGS North America–one of only five members to achieve this honor since the chapter’s founding in 1988,
IGS North America will support a new infrastructure summit to be held in conjunction with GeoU 2023. The GeoU event series co-locates two-day, in-person short courses and significant professional networking among practitioners whose work involves geosynthetics.
GeoU 2023 will be held November 7 – 10 in Austin, Texas and feature two landfill-focused courses and one multi-topic course on transportation engineering, stormwater management, and erosion and sediment control.
The IGS North America-supported panel discussion—the Central Texas Infrastructure Summit—will be a standalone two-hour panel discussion followed by a reception that connects summit attendees with the incoming attendees for the November 8 and 9 short courses.
What: GeoU 2023
Where: Sonesta Bee Cave Austin Hotel
When: 7 – 10 November 2023
IGS North America members can save 10% on registrations with the code IGSNA during checkout. (NOTE: Short course registration includes the November 7 summit and reception.)
Introduction & Context
Sam Allen (TRI Environmental, IGS North America Member & IGS President)
The third engineering requirement: sustainability
Dr. Jorge Zornberg, PE (Univ of Texas – Austin, IGS North America Member & IGS Past President)
Implications for existing and future transportation needs
Mike Arellano (TxDOT)
Central Texas water needs and current challenges
Dr. Jay Banner (Univ of Texas – Austin)
The United Kingdom experience with mandating sustainable infrastructure
David Shercliffe (ABG Geosynthetics [UK])
Panel Discussion
Reception follows on site.
November 7
3:00 – 5:00 pm, Central Texas Infrastructure Summit (Panel discussion)
5:00 – 7:00 pm, Sustainable Infrastructure Reception
November 8
8:00 – 5:00 pm, QA/QC of Geosynthetic Installation and GCL/CCL (Day 1)
8:00 – 5:00 pm, State of Practice for the Design & Construction of Containment Liner Systems (Day 1)
8:00 – 5:00 pm, Economically & Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Development: Best-Practice Construction (Day 1)
5:30 – 9:00 pm, Technical Tour (TRI Environmental) + Texas BBQ Bash
November 9
8:00 – 5:00 pm, QA/QC of Geosynthetic Installation and GCL/CCL (Day 2)
8:00 – 5:00 pm, State of Practice for the Design & Construction of Containment Liner Systems (Day 2)
8:00 – 5:00 pm, Economically & Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Development: Best-Practice Construction (Day 2)
5:00 – 6:00 pm, Happy Hour
November 10
8:00 am – 12:00 pm, GCI-ICP Exams
8:00 am – 12:00 pm, Marketing in the Geosynthetics Industry
Learn more at www.geo-u.com
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The MINEXCHANGE annual conference from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) is one of the most influential mining conferences and trade shows in the world. MINEXCHANGE 2024 will be held in Phoenix, Arizona 25 – 28 February 2024—and IGS North America Treasurer Marco Isola (WSP) is chairing the geosynthetics session.
He invites all IGS North America members and their colleagues active in mining and geosynthetics to submit an abstract to the program.
Abstracts due: 11 August 2023.
Papers are not mandatory. Presentation-only abstracts are welcomed.
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