International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment

Russian National Group:

Chairman: – Prof. Victor I. Osipov, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), director IEG RAS.
Secretary: Dr. Olga N. Eremina

Russian National Group includes 80 collective members, 30- with IAEG Bulletin.
list of members

About IAEG:
IAEG website: www.iaeg.info

The International Association for Engineering Geology and the environment (IAEG) was founded in 1964 and is affiliated to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). IAEG is a worldwide scientific society with more than 5,200 members and 59 national groups. The official languages of the IAEG are English and French.
The aims of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the environment are :

to promote and encourage the advancement of Engineering Geology through technological activities and research
to improve teaching and training in Engineering Geology, and
to collect, evaluate and disseminate the results of engineering geological activities on a worldwide basis.

The International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment cooperates with international scientific organizations and has the following major activities :

edits a quarterly journal, the Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment published by Springer Verlag, containing original scientific papers in English or in French, book reviews, meeting reports and geodiary.
operates commissions led by eminent world specialists, which review the current state of the art on various topics, promoting international cooperation among geologists and engineers who have an interest in engineering geology and related environmental issues.
sponsors international meetings. IAEG Congress is held every four year in an inviting country. IAEG activities are also organised on the occasion of the International Geological Congress. In addition, the IAEG sponsors various international symposia and regional conferences organized by national committees on specific topics.
publishes a Newsletter, sent twice a year to all members of the IAEG.
awards every two years a medal and a prize.

IAEG Board

President: Dr Fred BAYNES, (Australia)
Secretary General: Dr Michel DEVEUGHELE (France)
Treasurer: Mr Pierre POTHЙRAT (France)

Vice-Presidents for Europe:
Professor Carlos DELGADO (Spain)
Mr Daniel MORFELDT (Sweden)

Immediate Past President:Dr Niek RENGERS ( the Netherlands)
Honourary President: Professor Marcel ARNOULD (France)

IAEG Past Presidents:

1964 - 1968: Prof. Asher SHADMON (Israel)
1968 - 1972: Acad. Prof. Quido ZARUBA (Czechoslovakia)
1972 - 1978: Prof. Marcel ARNOULD (France)
1979 - 1982: Acad. Prof. Evgenii Mikhailovich SERGEEV (USSR)
1983 - 1986: Prof. Michael LANGER (Germany)
1987 - 1990: Prof. Owen L. WHITE (Canada)
1991 - 1994: Prof. Ricardo OLIVEIRA (Portugal)
1995 - 1998: Prof. Paul MARINOS (Greece)
1999 - 2002: Prof. WANG Sijing (P.R. of China)
2003-2006: Prof. Niek Rengers (the Netherlands)

Commissions IAEG:

C1- Engineering geological characterization and visualization
President - Dr Jeffrey R. Keaton, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, USA

C10 - Building stones and ornamental rocks
President - M. Björn SCHOUENBORG Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, SWEDEN

C14 - Engineering geology and waste disposal
President - Dr Daniel Morfeldt, Mineconsult A.B., Sweden

C17- Aggregates
Chairperson -Prof. Dr. Atiye TUGRUL, Istanbul University, TURKEY

C19 - 3D terrestrial laser scanning technology in the geosciences
President - Dr Kennert Roshoff,Berg Bygg Konsult AB Sweden

C20 - Risk Based Contaminated Land Management
Chairperson - Prof. Paul Nathanail, University of Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM

C21- Engineering geology of permafrost regions
Chairman: Dmitry Sergeev, Institute of Environmental Geoscience RAS, Russia;
President: Kaare FLAATE

C22 - Landscape evolution in Engineering Geomorphology
Chairman: Prof. James S. GRIFFITHS, Environmental Sciences University of Plymouth,UNITED KINGDOM

C23 - Core and chips logging in practice
President - Esther THERON, AUSTRALIA

C24 - Neotectonics and natural hazard
Chairman - Dr. YIN Yue-Ping, СHINA

C25 - Use of engineering geological models
Chairman:Steve Parry, c/o GeoRisk Solutions, Hong Kong.

C26 - Professional Practice Guidelines
Chairman - Bruce Riddolls, NEW ZEALAND

Forthcoming events:

-11th IAEG congress (September 5-10, 2010, Auckland, New Zealand)
http://www.nzgeotechsoc.org.nz

- Second European Conference of International Association for Engineering Geology "Cities and Their Underground Environment", (Madrid September 15-19, 2008)
www.euroengeo.com

- 5th IAEG Asian Regional Conference on Engineering Geology for major Infrastructure Development and Natural Hazards Mitigation (June 30 - July 4, 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal)
http://www.ngs.org.np/iaeg.htm

-10th International Symposium On Landslides And Engineered Slopes
(June 30 - July 4, 2008, Xi'an, China)
More Info at: http://www.landslide.iwhr.com

-33rd INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS (Lillestrom, Oslo, Norway, August 5-14, 2008)
http://www.33igc.org

The events held in Russia under the aegis of the Russian National Group of IAEG (2006-2007):

- The third International Scientific and Practical Symposium on Natural Conditions on the Construction and Preservation of the Churches in the Orthodox Russia was held at the Holy Trinity and St.Sergius Monastery, Sergiev Posad, Moscow District, Russia, on October 8-10, 2006. The Scientific council RAS on Environmental Geoscience, Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology was among the organizers of the symposium. The volume of Symposium Proceedings was published.

- The All-Russia Scientific and Practical Conference "Environmental and Geological Problems in Urban Areas" was held in Yekaterinburg, Russia by the Ural State Mining Institute, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, and the Scientific Council RAS on Environmental Geoscience, Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology on December 19-20, 2006. The conference discussed the following topics: 1) theoretical and methodical fundamentals of the study and assessment of ecological state of geoenvironment in the urbanized areas; 2) technogenic trannsformation of geoenvironment caused by various sources; and 3) intensification of geological processes.

- The ninth All-Russia Scientific Conference ”Sergeevskie chteniya” (The annual session of the Scientific council RAS on Environmental Geoscience, Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology) in commemoration of the outstanding Soviet and Russian scholar, the founder of the Russian school of engineering geology, and the pioneer in environmental geoscience development, Past President IAEG academician Evgenii Mikhailovich Sergeev. Moscow, March 23, 2007.
The volume of the conference proceedings (Sergeevskie chteniya. Volume 9, V.I. Osipov, Editor-in-chief, Moscow, GEOS Publishers, 2007, 444 pp.) including above 100 articles has been published in Russian.

- The International Conference on Monitoring of Geological, Lithotechnical and Geoenvironmental Systems, May 2007. The conference is hosted by the Geological Faculty at the Moscow State University (the Department of Engineering and Ecological geology) and is organized under the aegis of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on engineering geology, hydrogeology and environmental geoscience, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and the International Academy of Higher School

The following major monographs were published:
- Makarov, V.I., Makarova, N.V., Nesmeyanov, S.A, et al. The recent tectonics and geodynamics: the conjunction zone between the East European and the Scyphean platforms, Moscow, Nauka, 2006, 206 pp. (in Russian)
- Viktorov, A.S. The Main Problems in the Mathematical Morphology of Landscape, Moscow, Nauka, 2006, 251 pp. (in Russian)

Anticipated activities:

- The tenth All-Russia conference ”Sergeevskie chteniya”, March 2008. The specific topic of the conference is to be appointed.

- The International Symposium "Georisk-2009: Geological Hazards and Risks in Urban Areas" is proposed to be held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 28-30, 2009. The Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the problems in environmental geoscience, engineering geology and hydrogeology and the Russian national group IAEG are among the organizers of the symposium.

Last update: 14.03.2010