Thank you for your participation as a member of the Association of Geohazards Professionals during the past year. We hope you found the interaction with the Association and its members rewarding. The AGHP had a year of tremendous growth. Today, there are more than 180 individual members from 53 engineering companies, 32 public or academic […]
Snow avalanche planners, engineers, geoscientists and team members: This important resource from the Canadian Avalanche Association edited by Bruce Jamieson provides you with planning methods for characterizing, assessing, mapping and mitigating snow avalanche hazard and risk. Compiling the knowledge of 16 different authors into a technical manual edited by avalanche researcher and consultant Bruce Jamieson. […]
Engineering News-Record (ENR) Southeast recently recognized GeoStabilization International® as a Specialty Constr uction “Award of Merit” winner for the Tennessee SR 68 @ MP 5.2 Emergency Slide Project in Rhea County, Tennessee. Heavy rains in April 2018 caused a landslide on Tennessee SR 68, which connects Spring City in Rhea County to Crossville in Cumberland […]
Engineering News-Record (ENR) Mountain States recently recognized GeoStabilization International® as their Specialty Construction “Best Project” award winner for the Stillwater River Road Project in Stillwater County, Montana. The original mitigation plan for the unstable pillars above the Stillwater River road was to anchor them with rock bolts and high-tensile wire mesh. When GeoStabilization’s Rockfall Remediation […]
Association of Geohazard Professional’s Rope Access Safety Recognition awarded to Acadia Mountain Guides, California Department of Transportation, GeoStabilization International®, Global Mountain Solutions, GZA GeoEnvironmental, McMillen Jacobs Associates, Washington State Department of Transportation, and Yeh and Associations, Inc. The recognition, honoring best-in-class safety development and implementation initiatives within the geohazard industry, distinguishes companies that foster & employ safe rope […]
Cameron Ross Ph.D. Student, Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) AGHP student member Cameron Ross is a Ph.D. student at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ontario. He is conducting research using numerical modeling techniques to improve the understanding of how deep permafrost responds to climatic variability and anthropogenic forcing at the surface […]
The AGHP will be holding a webinar on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT titled RocFall: Statistical Analysis of Rockfalls by Rocscience. The webinar will be presented by Ellen Yeh, M.Sc., P.E., S.E, Chief Geotechnical Software Developer, Rocscience Inc., Toronto, Ontario This webinar will first present several popular impact theories and […]
Kris Holm, M.Sc., P.Geo. Principle Geoscientist, BGC Engineering Inc. Kris Holm is the Principle Geoscientist at BGC Engineering Inc. Most of his work is in mountainous areas of Western Canada, focusing on flood, steep creek, and landslide geohazard risk management for industry and municipal development. In past years he has also worked on mining projects […]
The AGHP will be holding a webinar on July 15, 2019, from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT titled Mapping and Monitoring: The Road to Proactive Engagement and Solution Provisions. The webinar will be presented by Pieter Bas Leezenberg (Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, SkyGeo), Paolo Mazzanti (CEO and Founding Member of NHAZCA and Professor of Remote Sensing at […]
The ‘Williams’ story began in 1922 when Mr. C. I. Williams graduated from Michigan State University after earning his degree in Civil Engineering. He initially took a job with the State of Michigan as a bridge inspector. However, it was not long before Mr. Williams realized the industry desperately needed an improved system for pouring […]