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Geo-Institute Technical Committee on

GEOTECHNICS OF SOIL EROSION

Annual Report for 2004

The committee started officially in May 2002. Jean-Louis Briaud took over the committee in May 2003.

Completed activities

  1. The first committee meeting took place in June 2003 at the Boston Conference. At that meeting Giovanna Biscontin and Beatrice Hunt were selected as Vice Chairs. Giovanna was in charge of developing the web site and Beatrice in charge of membership. At that meeting, plans were made to participate actively in the first available conference which was GeoFrontiers-2005.
  2. A tennis tournament was organized at the Boston conference and Chuck Ladd who is a very good tennis player was honored at that occasion. He received a CD of a match between him and the Chair of the committee (Jean-Louis Briaud) at the occasion of the ASCE-GI conference: Settlement 94.
  3. A web site was created: Dr. Giovanna Biscontin created the web site to match the format of the Geo-Institute. The Geotechnics of Soil Erosion web site has been linked to the GI site. The address is http://ceprofs.tamu.edu/gbiscontin/erosion-gi/. The site describes many different items related to the committee including: Home, Members, News, Minutes, Conferences, Publications, and Links.
  4. A membership list was established by Ms. Beatrice Hunt. The list is attached to the back of this annual report. It shows 39 members of the committee and 6 friends of the committee.

Continuing activities and future plans

  1. Two sessions have been organized at GeoFrontiers (January 2005 in Austin, http://www.asce.org/conferences/geofrontiers05/). The first one is on “Scour of Foundations and Dams” and the second one is on “Geosynthetics for Erosion Control”. The papers have been submitted and are being reviewed. A GSP will be prepared which will regroup the papers from the two sessions.
  2. A short course on “Soil Erosion: Problems, Regulations, and Solutions”. The short course is co-sponsored between our committee and NAGS. Drs. Shobha Bhatia and Jean-Louis Briaud are the organizers of the short course which will take place on the Sunday just before the conference. Eight speakers will give presentations in this short course.
  3. An electronic short course and a series of 4 webinars have been proposed to the Geo-Institute on the topic of “Scour of Foundations”. The 450 Power Point slides are ready and have been prepared by Beatrice Hunt and Jean-Louis Briaud.
  4. Speakers Bureau. Jean-Louis Briaud has signed up for the speakers bureau.
  5. A second meeting of the membership will take place at GeoFrontiers in late January 2005 in Austin, Texas. The agenda for the meeting will be as follows:

·  Introduction Jean-Louis Briaud

·  Web site report Giovanna Biscontin

·  Membership report Beatrice Hunt

·  Awards all

·  Subcommittees all

·  Short Courses and Webinars all

·  Speakers Bureau all

·  Participation at future conferences all

·  Projects all

·  Next meeting all

·  Adjourn

Members of the Committee:

Contact with TCC:

“Richard Woods (University of Michigan)”

Members

  1. “Jean-Louis Briaud (Texas A&M University)” <
  2. “Giovanna Biscontin (Texas A&M University)” <
  3. “Beatrice Hunt (Hardesty & Hanover, LLP)” <
  4. “Dean Durkee (Golder Associates Inc., Arizona)” <
  5. “Isam Shahrour (Univ of Lille, France)” <
  6. “Andrew Heydinger (Univ of Toledo, Ohio)” <
  7. “Stanley Vitton (Michigan Tech., Michigan)” <
  8. “Tuncer Edil (Univ of Wisconsin, Wisconsin)” <
  9. “Asadul Chowdhury (SW Res. Inst., Texas)”
  10. “Carlton Ho (Univ of Massachusetts, Mass)” <
  11. “Donald Gray (Univ of Michigan, Michigan)” <
  12. “Pete Robichaud (USDA Forest Service, Idaho)” <
  13. “Paul Cosentino (Florida Tech, Florida)” <

14.  “Larry Gatto (USArmy COE, CRREL, New Hamp.) <

  1. “Susan Cannon (USGS, Colorado)” <cannon@usgs,gov
  2. “Mark Palmer (CALTRANS) “ <
  3. “Njoroge Wainaina (North Carolina DOT)” <
  4. “Stan Davis (Maryland SHA)” <
  5. “John Boynton (Minnesota DOT)” <
  6. “Mark McClelland (Texas DOT)” <
  7. “Khulanand Jha (Indiana DOT)” <>

22.  “Peter R. Robichaud (USDA-Forest Service) “

23.  “Radoslaw L. Michalowski (U. of Michigan)” <

24.  “Bob Shattuck (Vermont DOT)” <

25.  “Stephen G. Wright (U. of Texas, Austin)” <

26.  “Peter Sletten” <

27.  “Jean M.E. Audibert (Fugro McClelland Inc., Texas)” <

28.  “Jaime Suarez Diaz (U. de Santander, Colombia, S.A.)”

29.  “Richard D. Woods (U. of Michigan, Michigan)” <

30.  “Deborah Goodings (U. of Maryland, Maryland)” <

31.  “Jeffrey R. Keaton (AMEC, California)” <

32.  "May, James H ERDC-GSL-MS" <

33.  "Dennis L. Richards" <

34.  “George Annandale” <

35.  “Bob Meinzer”

36.  “Pierre Gouvin” <>

37.  “Jeffrey A. Farrar” <>

38.  “John Rowland” or

39.  “Andy Johnston”

Friends

1.  “Riyad M. Wahab (Illinois DOT)” <

2.  “Ali Khan (STV Inc.)” <

3.  “Julie Shang (The University of Western Ontario)” <

4.  “Cathy C. Avila (Avila and Associates, California)” <

5.  “Elizabeth M. Smith (Sierra Blanca Constructors)” <

6.  "Scot Litke (ADSC)"

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