 |
 |
Dear all, The International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and the British member society, the British Geotechnical Association (BGA), are pleased to call for abstracts of papers for the Fifth International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics will be held between the 26th and 30th June 2006 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. The congress will have as its major theme, Opportunities, Challenges And Responsibilities For Environmental Geotechnics. The conference will feature a number of distinguished guest speakers on selected topics of current interest and contributed papers selected from those submitted to the conference. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be submitted to the conference secretariat no later than 1st December 2004 Papers are invited under the following session themes: - Remediation - Barrier design (Nuclear waste disposal) - Testing and monitoring - Sustainability - Fate and transport - Waste Reuse/Waste Management (Radioactive waste) - Regulation and Risk Management - Tailings/Sludge ponds/underwater geoenvironmental issues - Mine Sites, Tailing Dams, Dredgings and Lagoons - Integrated management of groundwater and contaminated land The above are intended to be indicative of themes and are not intended to be exclusive or to discourage the submission of other relevant papers. For more information please see the attached flyer or visit the website at: www.grc.cf.ac.uk/5iceg/ Regards David-Huw =================================================== Dr David-Huw Owen Development Manager Geoenvironmental Research Centre (ENGIN 1), Cardiff University, P O Box 925, Cardiff CF24 0YF Tel: +44 (029) 20 876697 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.grc.cf.ac.uk/ ===================================================