Annual GEOENGINEER Newsletter

"What the Geoengineer Website can do for you"


Editor: Dimitris Zekkos



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Editorial
Over the last year, the Geoengineer website has experienced an unprecedented growth both in content and traffic. Currently, more than 15,000 people visit the website each month and the members of the Geoengineer Newsletter exceed 3100.

The content and tools of the website increased significantly and we realized that many of the visitors do not know the variety of information and services that are provided by the geoengineer website. For that reason, we decided to publish this annual issue of the Geoengineer Newsletter, which lists the different resources of information and services available by the website.

Two new websites have been developed within the Geoengineer website.
-The Geotechnical earthquake Engineering Portal
-The website of the Joint Working group on geotechnical engineering for disaster mitigation and rehabilitation.
More information about these websites is provided below.

Also, the Geoengineer website can support the establishment and operation of content geo-websites or websites of conferences/workshops/commitees etc. You can read below more information and send us an e-mail to discuss these opportunities further.

We hope you will find this review useful,

The editor

VIRTUAL GEOTECHNICS
Session emphasizing in presenting through photos topics of the geotechnical practice (currently 49 topics in 14 sections).
Visit the Virtual Geotechnics session

GEOENGINEERING PHOTO GALLERY
Collection of photos classified in geo-categories. Currently includes 165 photos in 17 sections. Visit the Geoengineering Photo Gallery

EDUCATIONAL GEORESOURCES
This session provides resources (webpages, powerpoints, online courses) with entirely educational content (currently 39 resources in 10 sections). Visit the Educational Geo-resources session

ONLINE GEOENGINEERING LIBRARY
A collection of free papers and books available on the internet. (Currently 85 different recources in 16 sections) Visit the Online Geoengineering Library

TOP 10 PAPERS ON GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
The purpose of this session is to provide a starting point of the best publications on a specific topic. Chosen qualified and well-known Professors or engineers are invited to propose the best 10 papers in a specific field of their expertice. Visit the Top 10 Papers session

FREE GEOENGINEERING SOFTWARE LISTING
A Collection of free programs, excel spreadsheets and online applications in Geoengineering (currently 32 different resources in 7 sections). Visit the Free Geoengineering Software Listing

HISTORY OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
Session providing information regarding the history of geotechnical engineering, important historical projects and distinguished individuals in our field. Visit the session on history of geotechnical engineering

SEARCH OUR SITE
Looking for resources on a specific topic? Use the Geoengineer search engine to find what you are looking for.


Click here for the Geoengineer Search engine

NEW TOOL: GEOENGINEERING DATABASES
The new GEOENGINEERING DATABASES are searchable databases that allow the visitor to efficiently find useful information. Currently two databases exist:
· Database on Companies providing in-situ and/or laboratory services
· Database on references on GeoRisk and Reliability

Feel free to send us an e-mail and recommend the creation of a new database
Go to the Geoengineering Databases

GEOENGINEERING EVENTS
See our listing for geotech events and send us an e-mail to inform us about new ones. See listing

GEO RISK AND RELIABILITY
Professor K. K. Phoon has established the Georisk and Reliability website. The website includes unique tools and resources such as a forum, a database of georisk and reliability references, as well as other resources. Visit the geo risk and reliability website

GEOENGINEERING JOURNALS
Links to journals in the Geoengineering field.

Visit the Geoengineering Journals

GEOENGINEERING BULLETIN BOARDS & FORUMS
To enhance the circulation of geoengineering information and interaction among geoengineers we established the Geoengineering Forums and Boards. Visitors can now be informed on the latest news or post questions and get replies through the growing variety of forums and bulletin boards established.

Current Boards and Forums:

. General Technical Issues

. Geoengineering News Board, where you can submit announcements for any news related to geoengineering

. Job Opportunities Board, where you can submit postings for a job opening or a request for job

. Geoengineering Software Forum, where you can post questions on geoengineering programs.

. International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories Announcement Board hosts announcements of the latest published papers

. Georisk and Reliability Forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences on Geo Risk and Reliability

. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering & Soil Dynamics Forum for the circulation of information in geotechnical earthquake engineering.

If you would like to recommend or manage a new forum, contact us. You can open an account for free and post an announcement or a question.

Visit the Bulletin Boards and Forums

WEBSITE OF THE JOINT WORKING GROUP ON GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING FOR DISASTER MITIGATION AND REHABILITATION
The website of the JWG-DMR lists information on the activities of the group. Go to JWG-DMR website

GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING PORTAL
Adda Athanasopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley, has established a new content website aiming in the classification and disemination of information on geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics.
Go to the earthquake portal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOENGINEERING CASE HISTORIES
This new refereed journal intends to become the forum for the publication of case histories in geoengineering. A very distinguished editorial board reviews all publications. The first issue of the journal is coming soon! Go to the case histories journal

CREATE YOUR OWN GEO-WEBSITE
The Geoengineer website can host your website and simplify your internet life. Whether you would like to create a new website, or move an existing one to the Geoengineer website we will be glad to discuss that. Websites established within the Geoengineer Website are supported in numerous ways: They receive traffic from the Geoengineer website, they can use the many capabilities of the website (e.g. forums, databases, surveys etc.) and they are promoted and supported by being integrated within the Geoengineer Website. Updates of the website are also announced in the Geoengineer Newsletter.

Websites of committees or associations, research projects or any other informational websites that have merit can find a permanent home at the Geoengineer Website.

WEBSITES FOR CONFERENCES
The Geoengineer website can support the organization of conferences: You can either create the conference website yourself and have the Geoengineer Website host it or provide us the necessary information and let us do the job for you. Conferences supported by the Geoengineer website are constantly promoted using the tools of the website, guaranteeing maximum exposure to the geoengineering community.

NEW BOOKS SESSION
The Geoengineer website lists and promotes the latest publications in Geoengineering. Click here to go to the new books session

COMPANIES/SPONSORING PROGRAM
The Geoengineer website with its numerous activities is a centre for geotechnical information dissemination. With a variety of ways we can support your company reach its goals. Funds from the website are directed to improve the services provided by the website. Send us an e-mail to learn more. Read more about our sponsoring program

OTHER IDEAS?
The Geoengineer Website is a dynamic growing effort. Our purpose is to serve the practice and research of the Geo-profession. If you have an idea, send us an e-mail, and we will brainstorm together on its implementation.

Date: July 2005 Annual Special Issue 2005

Contents
Editorial
VIRTUAL GEOTECHNICS
About the Geoengineer Newsletter
GEOENGINEERING PHOTO GALLERY
Educational georesources
ONLINE GEOENGINEERING LIBRARY
Top 10 papers on...
FREE GEO SOFTWARE
History of geotechnical engineering
SEARCH OUR SITE
Geoengineering Databases
GEOENGINEERING EVENTS
About the Geoengineer Website
Become a CONTRIBUTOR
Geo Risk & Reliability website
Geo-Journals
Geo News
Geo Job Market
Bulletin Boards & Forums
NEW BOOK
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Portal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOENGINEERING CASE HISTORIES
WEBSITES FOR CONFERENCES


About the Geoengineer Newsletter
The Geoengineer Newsletter is distributed for free to its subscribed members and to civil/geotechnical engineering newsgroups. Currently there are 3180 individually subscribed members.

About the Geoengineer Website
The Geoengineer website is a centre for classification and distribution of geotechnical information. Our mission is to guide the geoengineer in finding resources useful to his/her work. To achieve that we encourage all engineers to contribute by informing us of useful resources available to the public or submitting useful resources.


More information on the Geoengineer website

Become a CONTRIBUTOR
The Geoengineer website counts on the contributions and feedback of its visitors to keep growing and become more useful. Are you aware of resources that are not listed on the website? Do you have personal material that you would like to make available? Do you have comments about the website? Do you have ideas that could contribute in the Geo-Profession and you need help in realizing them? Please drop us an e-mail. We will be very interested to hear about it. Send us an e-mail at: zekkos@geoengineer.org or reply to this newsletter.

GEOENGINEERING NEWS
Read/Post latest news in Geoengineering.
Geo-news here

GEO JOB MARKET
Find/Offer Geoengineering Job Opportunities for free. Go to Geo-Job Market

GEO-SOFTWARE QUESTIONS
Do you have a question on Geoengineering Software? Here is the place to ask. Go to Geo-software questions

NEW BOOK

Geotechnical Modelling, by David Muir Wood

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