Dear TC307:
Greetings! Some updates related to TC307 activities.
1.We are waiting to hear what papers will be accepted and allocated to TC307. Due to the postponement of ISSMGE Sydney conference activities, we will have to wait for a few more months before we know the number of papers accepted. Regarding two sessions, we talked about one session for invited talks and another one for papers accepted for TC307. We still need to see how we will organize this second session. Could be a rapid-fire session (with 3 mins per talk), so we can accommodate more talks...open to all suggestions.
New dates have been confirmed for the conferences in Sydney as follows;
7iYGEC - Friday 29 April-Sunday 1 May 2022
20ICSMGE – Sunday 1 May – Thursday 5 May 2022.
2. Our committee will sponsor two Virtual University talks this year and Dipanjan Basu will give one talk. I am recruiting another great talk and more details will come soon.
3. ISSMGE Time Capsule Project - we will be working on this project in the coming months and I request our VC Olivier to take lead on this project. Mizanur and I will help him as well. Any of you are interested in working on this project, please reach out to Olivier and us. Details of Time-Capsule can be found on the following link:
https://www.issmge.org/the-society/time-capsule/time-capsule
4. Thanks to our Secretary Mizanur's excellent work, our ISSMGE website and Geoworld website are working well. We will need to update and add new information.
5. Prof Hemant Hazarika of Kyushu University shared CREST 2020 conference and this will be held virtually in March 2021. Please see CREST2020.com. The theme of the conference is Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies and there are several interesting talks listed on the website. I mentioned to him that we would like to be a co-sponsor for future conference activities. We wish him good luck with the conference.
6. Unfortunately, the 1ICSGE Conference in Portugal was cancelled due to Pandemic reasons. I am hoping if the Portugal delegation is still interested in reviving it, we will be happy to support.
Please share any closely related 'Sustainable Geotechnical' happenings in your member countries either within this group or by emailing it to Olivier, Mizanur and me. We will be happy to include on the web as well as future reports.
Be Safe and Best Regards!
Anand Puppala
Chair, TC 307 Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering
