Technical Themes
The technical program for GEO2010 will consist of a series of short courses, workshops, technical tours, technical sessions and invited lectures – researchers and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts in the following topic areas/themes:
Fundamentals
- Cold Regions Geotechnology
- Engineering Geology
- Foundation Engineering
- Geoenvironmental
- Landslides / Slope Stability / Slope Engineering
- Oil Sands Geotechnology
- Reliability-based Design
- Risk Assessment
- Rock Mechanics
- Seepage / Groundwater Hydrology
- Soil Mechanics
- Soil Stabilization
Permafrost
- Climate Change & Permafrost
- Coastal Permafrost
- Frozen Core Dams
- Geophysics
- Ground Ice
- Infrastructure Design & Operations in Permafrost
- Mining in Permafrost Regions
- Periglacial Processes
- Permafrost Foundation Design / Slope Stability
- Rock Glaciers
Geotechnical
- Brownfields and Redevelopment
- Design of Clay Liners
- Geohazards
- Harbour and Shoreline Geotechniques
- Marine Geotechniques
- Mine Site Remediation
- Non-textbook Soils/Waste Soils
Cross-Disciplinary
- Effects of Climate Change
- Geo-environmental Modelling
- Geoenvironmental Sustainability
- Groundwater hydrology and slope stability
- Instrumentation
- Transportation
