At the ISSMGE Council meeting on May 1 in Sydney, Australia, G-I Board member Marc Ballouz was elected President of ISSMGE.His term begins immediately and will run through the 21st...

Happy Valentine's Day from the Geo-Institute! We have cards for you to print or email and give to your Geo-Valentine

Looking for a way to excite students in your geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering courses? Geoengineer.org just released its “Captivating Geotechnical Engineering News in 2021" video! You can find it here:...

Write for GEOSTRATA! GEOSTRATA's editorial board is seeking potential authors for 2022 articles and commentaries. This is your chance to contribute to the geotechnical community's collective body of knowledge while...

Alejandro Martinez was awarded the 2022 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award (nominated by the soil properties and modeling committee) for pioneering research using multi-scale interdisciplinary techniques that have advanced the...

Researchers and investigators are invited to submit contributions to the special issue in Acta Geotechnica on the topic of Bio-inspired Geotechnics. This special issue will accept original research papers, short...

The Soil Properties and Modeling committee will have the winter teleconference on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021 at 2:00 pm CST. Zoom link: https://uark.zoom.us/j/89706315480?pwd=S0ErV1l6ZHdWaitYY0FoRWZXbUNRZz09

The registration for the 6th Annual Web Conference is going up after Friday, November 19, 2021. So, do not miss this opportunity and register today for the Technical Sessions and...

The Geo-Institute Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Technical Committee will live-stream the session "Practical Implications of Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics" on Wednesday, December 8 at 11...

The Geo-Institute Geoenvironmental Engineering Technical Committee will live-stream on Monday, December 6 at 2 PM EST. The topics include: "Impact of Electromagnetic Waves on Clay Properties," Arvin Farid , Ph.D.,...

The Geo-Institute Earth Retaining Structures Technical Committee will live-stream on Friday, December 10 at 2 PM EST. The topics include: "Choreographing Deconstruction of Existing Basement Structure and Construction of SOE...

The Geo-Institute Deep Foundations Technical Committee will live-stream on Tuesday, December 7 at 2 PM EST. The topics include: "Geotechnical Design and Construction on Design Build Projects", Ravi Vedantham ,...

The Geo-Institute Computational Geotechnics Technical Committee will live-stream the session "Computational Geotechnics and Insights into Soil Behavior" on Tuesday, December 7 at 11 AM EST. The topics include: "Insight on...

The Geo-Institute Embankments Dams and Slopes Technical Committee will live-stream the following sessions on 6th Annual Live Streaming Web Conference: Monday, December 6 at 11 AM EST: Extreme Events on...

Director's Cut launched just over a year ago, on October 7, 2020. To celebrate the 50th episode, we're having a Scavenger Hunt! Find the answers to these 10 questions by...

The Embankments, Dams & Slopes technical committee has new Twitter and Instagram accounts. Follow them at https://twitter.com/EdsCommittee @EdsCommittee on Twitter and https://www.instagram.com/eds_committee/ EDS_Committee on Instagram.

The 3rd International Symposium on Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics (CPEG2020), organized by the Japanese Geotechnical Society and the Kyoto University with the support of TC215 Environmental Geotechnics Technical Committee...

We’re happy to bring you a new way to support to the Student Participation Fund: The 96 Club, named after 1996, the year the G-I was founded. Become a member...

Helen D. Robinson, P.E., PMP, D.GE, M.ASCE joins the G-I Board for a term beginning in October 2021. Robinson is a Branch Manager/ Senior Project Manager with GEI Consultants. She...

To celebrate your commitment to ASCE conferences and expand your knowledge of the challenges and opportunities in civil engineering we invite you to attend the virtual ASCE 2021 Convention ....

The International Symposium on Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics (CPEG) is a quadrennial event organized under the auspices of the Technical Committee TC215 (Environmental Geotechnics) of the International Society of...

The free series of weekly webinars from expert speakers on a wide range of current and emerging geoenvironmental engineering topics is ongoing! The schedule for September-December 2021 is attached. Register...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has many uses in transportation, including designing bridges. TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, June 22, 2021 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will offer insights on...

Congratulations to the first and second place winners of the National Capitol Chapter Essay contest, Yassmine Khiri of Howard University and Natalie Gallo of University of the District of Columbia....

New in-person dates are November 7-10 , 2021 which coincides with the Savannah Wine and Food Festival!! This will be the first in-person Geo-Institute event after the pandemic. We hope...

The Soil Properties and Modeling Committee meeting was successfully held virtually. It was great to see everyone! If you missed the meeting on March 17, 2021, you can watch the...

If you missed the Embankments, Dams, and Slope committee meeting on April 9, 2021, you can watch the recording. Videos of the meeting are stored on ASCE Collaborate. https://collaborate.asce.org/home Once...

The ASCE G-I Geosynthetics Technical Committee is excited to announce a recent partnership between the US Air Force Academy and ASCE G-I in support of continued updates to GeoTech Tools...

All Geo-Institute Council's and Committees will meet during the month of March. Due to the current pandemic situation and travel limitations this year, the meetings will be held virtually. If...

Geoenvironmental research-to-practice videos are live now on the Geo-Institute Youtube channel! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXHjEGSzGOPMbb0nfixYyc-heIzlv7go8 To bridge disconnects between research and practice, GEC members have created a series of 10-minute videos that summarize...