Calgary Geotechnical Society

01/21/2025

CyGS Student Industry Mixer & Colloquium Lecture (February 11, 2025) -

Student Industry Mixer: The Calgary Geotechnical Society Student Industry Mixer is back! This event will host the 2023 CGS Colloquium Speaker, Dr. Pooneh Maghoul, from Polytechnique Montreal, and the 2024 CyGS Student/EIT Travel Award winner, Khatereh Roghangar, from the University of Calgary. The e...

03/11/2024

[REMINDER] Upcoming Student Industry Mixer (March 21) -

02/28/2024

[REMINDER] Upcoming CyGS In-Person Events: March 6 and March 21 -

Since the first use of InSAR data to map the ground displacement caused by the 1992 Landers earthquake in California, algorithms for extracting high-precision measurements of surface displacement from SAR data have evolved rapidly. This is primarily due to improvements in satellite and sensor techno...

02/16/2024

Upcoming CyGS In-Person Events: March 6 and March 21 -

Since the first use of InSAR data to map the ground displacement caused by the 1992 Landers earthquake in California, algorithms for extracting high-precision measurements of surface displacement from SAR data have evolved rapidly. This is primarily due to improvements in satellite and sensor techno...

02/01/2024

CGS Young Professional (YP) Committee - 2024 Mentorship Program Details -

01/16/2024

[REMINDER] CyGS Presentation by CyGS Presentation by Caius Priscu, Ph.D, P.Eng. (January 24, 2024) -

This presentation will be hosted at the Wild Rose Taproom - Barracks Room. No virtual option is available for this presentation. Light refreshments and appetizers will be provided. 

12/15/2023

CyGS Presentation by CyGS Presentation by Caius Priscu, Ph.D, P.Eng. (January 24, 2024) -

This presentation will be hosted at the Wild Rose Taproom - Barracks Room. No virtual option is available for this presentation. Light refreshments and appetizers will be provided. 

12/01/2023

[REMINDER] CyGS Virtual Presentation by Doug Dewar and Nicki Robertson (December 6, 2023) -

On February 12, 2020 the Canadian Energy Regular (CER) issued Safety Advisory SA 2020-01 to all CER-regulated companies to ensure an awareness of landslide related incidents outside of Canada associated with girth welds on modern high-strength pipelines.  The CER stated “while no incidents associ...

11/15/2023

CyGS Virtual Talk by Doug Dewar and Nicki Robertson (December 6, 2023) -

On February 12, 2020 the Canadian Energy Regular (CER) issued Safety Advisory SA 2020-01 to all CER-regulated companies to ensure an awareness of landslide related incidents outside of Canada associated with girth welds on modern high-strength pipelines.  The CER stated “while no incidents associ...

11/14/2023

CyGS Presentation by Heather Brooks (November 22, 2023) -

Heather has Alaskan roots but settled in Canada. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s in civil engineering from Montana State University. She worked for Duane Miller Associates and Golder Associates in Anchorage Alaska for 5 years, where she found her love of cold regions geotechnics and p...

09/15/2023

[Reminder] CyGS Presentation by Marco Arrieta (September 22, 2023) -

Marco Arrieta is a geotechnical engineer with over fourteen years of experience in the open pit mining industry. He currently leads the geotechnical department at Teck Resources – Line Creek Operation and is pursuing his Ph.D. diving in shear strength criterion for rock fills and waste dumps based...