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Chapter meetings, field trips and other events are listed on the calendar below.
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If you’d like to present a geoscience-related topic to our chapter, contact our Chair Luke Ducey (luke.ducey at wsp.com) or Vice Chair Ben Luetkemeyer (ben.luetkemeyer at terracon.com) to schedule a presentation date!
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Doug Wiens: Investigating Antarctic’s Response to Ice Mass Loss
Wednesday, February 19th: On Wednesday, February 19th, at 5:30 pm, The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologist will host the distinguished, Dr. Douglas A. Wiens Wiens. The event will be hosted in the basement of Pietros (3801 Watson Rd, Saint Louis, MO 63109 United States). Dinner will be included.
Please RSVP by Monday, Feburary 17th, 2025
The cost of this meeting is $5 for students, $15 for members, and $20 for non-members.
Doug Wiens is the Robert S. Brookings Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches a popular undergraduate course on natural disasters. Doug is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and received the Cody Award in Ocean Sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2014, in recognition for his work on the structure of the earth beneath the seafloor.
Antarctica is rapidly losing ice in response to the changing climate. The loss of ice results in rapid uplift of the land surface, which changes ice-ocean interactions and has the potential to affect the rate and distribution of ice mass loss in the future. This presentation will cover our deployment of autonomous seismographs and GPS receivers across Antarctica to image structure and measure the land uplift in response to ice mass loss. This instrumentation is operating successfully despite 5-6 months of darkness each year and temperatures as low as -70°C. The results show rapid landuplift (~ 50 mm/yr) in parts of West Antarctica due to isostatic adjustment from ice mass loss, enhanced by warm, low viscosity uppermost mantle. Ice sheet modeling shows that this rapid uplift will have important effects on the future of the Antarctic ice sheet.
RSVP deadline is past
AEG Jahn’s Lecturer – John Kemeny: Why is that Unstable-Looking Rock Slope Still Standing, and When Can We Expect it to Fail: An Introduction to Rock Fracturing, Time-Dependant Fracturing and Rock Bridges
Tuesday, March 11th: On Tuesday, March 11th, at 5:30 pm, The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologist will host the distinguished, Dr. John Kemeny. The meeting will be held at the St. Louis Terracon office which is located at:11600 Lilburn Park Road St. Louis, MO 63146. Sugarfire Smokehouse will be provided for dinner and there is ample parking at the Terracon office.
Dr. John Kemeny is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mining and Geological Engineering at the University of Arizona. His specialties are geomechanics, slope stability, rock fracture mechanics, numerical simulation in rock mechanics, and developing 3D imaging and sensing technologies for geotechnical applications. Dr. Kemeny is an expert on the use of point clouds for rock engineering applications such as slope and underground stability. Dr. Kemeny is Partner and Co-Founder of Split Engineering LLC, a company that specializes in image processing software for the mining and geotechnical industries, and the company was recently acquired by Hexagon Mining.
Dr. Kemeny has over 35 years of experience in rock mechanics and over 25 years of experience with using new technologies for rock engineering applications. In the past 30 years Dr. Kemeny has published over 160 papers which include 45 peer-reviewed journal papers, given over 75 invited technical talks and workshops which include many keynote talks given worldwide.
RSVP deadline is past
Cone Penetration Technology (CPTu) Workshop at Wheaton College [Wheaton, IL]
Where: Wheaton College, Meyer Science Center, Room 145, Wheaton, IL
When: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
RSVP by sending your contact information for updates, lunch choices, meeting room & parking locations to Chris Stohr at 217 776 4071 or chair.aeg.chicago at gmail.com
Minimum Donation: $100 [AEG Members]/$125[non members] before March 20; $125/$150 afterward. Students and Faculty: no charge but must register for lunch count.
PACE Laboratory Open House and PFAS Talk
When: Wednesday, April 16th at 4:00 pm
Where: Hosted by Pace at there Hazelwood Labs (944 Anglum Road, Hazelwood, MO)
more information to come
STL Work Zone Awareness Run
| STL Work Zone Awareness RunSaturday, April 19th, 2025 HI FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES! The deadline to register and guarantee you receive a t-shirt is coming up soon on Sunday, March 23rd! Be sure to sign up before you forget – and remind your family, friends, and coworkers to join you. This year besides receiving a bright green race shirt with your registration you will also receive a pair of green crew running socks! Register Here IMPORTANT: Sign up by SUNDAY, March 23rd to guarantee you receive a t-shirt!Registration (only $20) is open for the 2025 STL WORK ZONE AWARENESS RUN on Saturday, April 19th, which is our 12TH ANNUAL! We are offering a 5K Timed Race or 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk. Both races start at 8am at the MoDOT Transportation Management Center where we’ll have a bunch of emergency vehicles on display to show off, so bring the whole family! All money raised goes back into the race to support our mission of promoting WORK ZONE AWARENESS and SAVING LIVES. Don’t live in St. Louis or can’t make it that day? We are offering a Virtual Participant option for anyone who wants to run/walk where they live and have our SWAG mailed to them. Help us achieve our mission of encouraging SAFE DRIVING through work zones as the spring construction season kicks off. Get out there and enjoy the spring weather with a run or walk during National Work Zone Awareness Week! Get your crew together and sign up today! Make sure you’re registered by March 23rd to guarantee you receive a t-shirt. See you at the starting line!New this year, you will have the option to join a team upon registration. By joining a team, your race day packet, shirt and giveaway item will be delivered to the team company or organizations office on race week, your packet will NOT be available at pre-race packet pickup!We are excited to partner with Let Me Run this year! This awesome organization is a nonprofit wellness program that inspires boys (3rd to 5th grade) to be themselves, be active and belong. These boys will train for 7 weeks and will be joining us on race day to cap off their training program and personal growth. |
AEG MU Student Chapter Picnic
More information to come
Location: Rock Bridge Memorial State Park 5901 RT-163 Columbia, MO