The 4-yearly congress of the IAEG entitled "Geologically Active" will take place in Auckland, New Zealand.
There are five broad conference themes:
- Geohazards at the Leading Edge (including seismic, volcanic, gravitational and climatic hazards);
- Managing Geological Risk (including hazard and risk, disaster risk management, living with geohazards, planning for climatic change);
- Advances in Engineering Geology (including developments in site investigation, in the laboratory, mapping and remote sensing, field measurement, the geological model, geodata management);
- Applied Engineering Geology (including the mechanics of rock, underground engineering, filling with earth, supporting our structures, when water meets structures, analysis in engineering geology);
- Evolving Engineering Geology (including engineering geology in the global economy, a resource-hungry world, appropriate technology in the developing world, geo-environmental engineering, sustainable geotechnics, the geotechnical response to global warming, litigation and geotechnics, ethics and communication, human resource development).
In addition to the Executive Committee, Council and lecture meetings and a range of mid-Congress field trips, there will be five post-Congress field trips:
- Rotorua/ Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
- Landslides of the East Coast, New Zealand
- South Island Hydropower, New Zealand
- West Coast: The Alpine Fault and Coal Mining, New Zealand
- Major Civil Infrastructure Projects of Southeast Queensland, Australia
For more information, please go to the conference website at
www.iaeg2010.com.
