Events
CALENDAR
CALENDAR
The Calendar below contains all planned event details & registration information
The Calendar below contains all planned event details & registration information
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2024-2025 MEETINGS
2024-2025 MEETINGS
- 09/11/23 September Social Event - 6 PM on Itasca Rooftop
- 10/9/24 6 PM at Day Block Brewing
A methodology for supplementing rock strength information, using machine learning and point load testing by Chris Thielsen 6-8:30 PM at Day Block Brewing
- 11/13/24 6 PM at Day Block Brewing
Construction Vibration Damage - The Real Threat
Ren Keyport, Vice President, Omnidots
- 12/11/24 6 PM at Day Block Brewing
Innovative Geophysical Testing for Site Exploration and Characteriazation
Rob Kramer, Terracon
- 1/8/25 6 PM at Day Block Brewing
Evaluating and mitigating the risks pertaining from collapsing underground mines and subsidence
Joshua Zimmerman, Brierly Associates
- 3/12/25 6 PM at Day Block Brewing
Central City Tunnel
Craig Ekdahl, CNA Engineers
- 4/9/25 6 PM at Day Block Brewing
The Incremental Rigidity method, an innovative approach to converting measured strains to calculated internal forces (load-transfer response) in a static load test
Van Komurka, GRL Engineers
- 5/14/24 6 PM at Day Block Brewing
New Developments in Transportation Geotechnics: Digital Geotechnical Tools, Processes, and Workflow
Derrick Dasenbrock, Minnesota Department of Transportation (MNDOT)
ANNUAL GEOCONFERENCE
ANNUAL GEOCONFERENCE
MGS-GI's 73nd Annual UMN Geotechnical Engineering Conference
TBD
PAST MEETINGS
PAST MEETINGS
Recordings of our meetings can be found on our YouTube page here.
2023-2024 Speakers:
- 09/13/23 September Social Event - More information here
- 10/11/23 6 pm at Day Block Brewing Company
- James Buzzell & Lisa Vieau, GoliathTech, Helical Pile Course
- 11/08/23 6 pm at Day Block Brewing Company
- Zhangwei Ning, PhD, Sixense, State-of-the-Practice and Recent Developments in Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring
- 12/13/23 6 pm at Day Block Brewing Company
- Jeff Segar, P.E., S.E., GSI, Landslide Repair on Top of a Bluff: Riverview Dr.
- 01/17/24 6 pm at Day Block Brewing Company
- Kurt Breitenbucher, P.E., Brierley, Tunnel Project Case Study in Dubuque Iowa
- 02/22/24 St. Paul Student Center, University of Minnesota (Joint ASCE-MN & MGS-GI Meeting)
- Edward Kavazanjian Jr., PhD, P.E., D.GE., Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, Michels, Fugitive Dust Generation from Iron Ore Tailings Treated Using EICP Subject to Freeze-Thaw Cycles
- 02/23/24 University of Minnesota 72nd Geotechnical Engineering Conference
- 03/13/24 6 pm at Day Block Brewing Company
- Braun Intertec
- 04/10/24 6 pm at Day Block Brewing Company
- Transportation Panel Discussion, moderated by Christopher Dedene, PhD, P.E. and sponsored by Geokon
- 05/08/24 6 pm at Day Block Brewing Company
- Robert B. Gilbert, PhD, P.E., D.GE., NAE, The University of Texas at Austin, Case Histories in Forensic Geotechnical Engineering
2022-2023 Speakers:
- 09/14/22 September Social - More information here
- 10/12/22 6 pm at Crooked Pint, Maplewood
- Chad Underwood, Engineering Partners International, The Use of Piles and Tieback Anchors for Slope Stabilization
- 11/09/22 6 pm at Crooked Pint, Maplewood
- Carrie Jennings, Freshwater Society, Till: Spatially Variable, Complex and Dense!
- 12/14/22 6 pm at Crooked Pint, Maplewood
- Lola Moussey & Ryan Cummings, Nicholson Construction, I-35 Stormwater Project Case Study
- 01/18/23 6 pm at U Garden Restaurant and Event Center, Minneapolis
- Zach Boucias, Geo-Instruments, A Comparison of Earth Pressure and Settlement Data Collected from Two Long-Term Ground Improvement Monitoring Projects.
- 02/23/23 St. Paul Student Center, University of Minnesota (Joint ASCE-MN & MGS-GI Meeting)
- Ross W. Boulanger, PhD, PE, NAE
- 02/24/23 University of Minnesota 71st Geotechnical Engineering Conference
- 03/15/23 6 pm at Braun-Intertec, Bloomington
- Joint Panel Discussion with MnSEA (Geotech & Structures)
- 04/12/23 6 pm at American Engineering Testing, St. Paul
- Bill Kwasny, How to Write a Comprehensive Geotechnical Report
- 05/10/23 6 pm at Finnegan's Brewery (Ethics Presentation)
- Aaron Mann, Terracon, Lessons from the FIU Bridge Collapse