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Minneapolis

 

2007 - 2008
Meetings

Description or Topic

Location

Wednesday
October 10, 2007
PDF (47 kb)

Designing with Geogrids
Sarah Garland, Contech

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
November 14, 2007
PDF (48 kb)

Erosion and Sedimentation
Dr. Shawn Schottler, Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Croix Watershed Research Station

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
December 12, 2007
PDF (120 kb)

Exploring the Lakes of Western Mongolia
Dr. James E. Almendinger, Senior Scientist, Science Museum of Minnesota

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
January 9, 2008
PDF (118 kb)

Cellular Concrete
Andrew Nielson

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Thursday
February 28, 2008
PDF (12 kb)

Experience Gained from 80 Miles of Tunneling on the Egnatia Highway in Northern Greece
Dr. Evert Hoek

University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus

Wednesday
March 12, 2008
PDF (149 kb)

Down-hole Hammer Technology — Innovative Local Projects
Greg Norris, Veit

Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
April 9, 2008
PDF (120 Kb)

Design of Steel Piles for Stabilization of the West Elk Mine Landslide
Phil Solseng, Barr Engineering Company

Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
May 14, 2008
PDF (121 kb)

Pile Testing at the I-35 Bridge Site
Jeff Gebhard, PE, Braun Intertec

Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN

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2006 - 2007
Meetings

Description or Topic

Location

Wednesday
October 11, 2006
PDF (28 kb)

Glacial Geomorphology
Carrie Jennings, Senior Scientist
Minnesota Geological Survey, U of M

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
November 8, 2006
PDF (28 kb)

Effective Geophysical Methods for Investigating Karst Terranes: Lessons Learned
Kelton Barr, Professional Hydrogeologist, Braun Intertec Corp.

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
December 13, 2006
PDF (29 kb)

Soil Solidification at Gopher Resources
Aaron Grosser, PE, Barr Engineering

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
January 10, 2007
PDF (34 kb)

Geotechnical Challenges on Hwy. 212
Megan J.L. Hoppe, American Engineering

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
February 14, 2007
PDF (29 kb)

Integrating Soils, Landform and Native Plants to Manage Stormwater Run-off in Residential Developments
Kim Chapman

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Thursday
March 15, 2007
PDF (34 kb)

Geotechnical Engineering at the Dawn of the 3rd Millennium
Geotechnical Conference Pre-meeting with a presentation by the Kersten Lecturer, Dr. Suzanne Lacasse, Ph.D., the Managing Director of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.

University of Minnesota

Wednesday
April 11, 2007
PDF (43 kb)

Drilled Pier Foundation Construction for the Ivy Tower
Don Schulze, President of Layne Minnesota Company

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

Wednesday
May 9, 2007
PDF (43 kb)

Annual Meeting
Election of officers and presentation of annual report.

Majors Sports Cafe, Roseville, MN

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2005 - 2006
Meetings

Description or Topic

Location

Wednesday
October 12, 2005
PDF (19 kb)

Saving St. Anthony Falls
John O. Anifson, Ph.D., National Park Service, St. Paul, MN

Big City Tavern & Banquet Center

Wednesday
November 9, 2005
PDF (99 kb)

Saint Paul Mines
D. Lee Peterson, Ph.D., PE, CNA Consulting Engineers, Minneapolis, MN

Big City Tavern & Banquet Center

Wednesday
December 14, 2005
PDF (110 kb)

Pneumatically Installed Soil Nails
Bob Barrett, Soil Nail Launcher, Inc., Grand Junction, CO

Big City Tavern & Banquet Center

Wednesday
January 11, 2006
PDF (101 kb)

Pilot Tube MicroTunneling
Shane McFadden, P.E., Engineering and Construction and Innovations Inc. (ECI)
St. Paul, MN

Big City Tavern & Banquet Center

Thursday
February 16, 2006
PDF (97 kb)

Load Resistance Factor Design for Geotechnical Transportation Features
Jerry DiMaggio, Federal Highway Administration

Continuing Education and Conference Center
map

Wednesday
March 8, 2006
PDF (97 kb)

Soil Nail and Root Technology
Mike Fabius, PE, DST Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Thunder Bay, Canada

Big City Tavern & Banquet Center

Wednesday
April 12, 2006
PDF (97 kb)

Case Study of a Secant Wall
Eric Pederson, P.E., Veit Companies, Rogers, MN

Big City Tavern & Banquet Center


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2004 - 2005
Meetings

Description or Topic

Location

Wednesday
October 6, 2004

MN Roads
Ben Worel, AET

KFAN

Wednesday
November 10, 2004

Caves and Groundwater
Roger Kuhns, CNA

KFAN

Wednesday
December 8, 2004
PDF (28 kb)

Summary of Continuous Compaction Control
John Siekmeier, MnDOT

KFAN

Wednesday
January 12, 2005
PDF (27 kb)

Field Considerations for Characterizing Glacial Sequences for Geotechnical and Hydrogeological Projects - A Case Study
Dan Kelleher, Earth Tech, Inc., and Paul Kesich, Fermi National Accelerator Lab.

KFAN

Thursday
February 24, 2005
PDF (28 kb)

What Boston's "Big Dig" Project Accomplished and What We Can Learn From It
John T. Christian, P.E., Ph.D., Hon M. ASCE

U of M, St. Paul

Wednesday
March 9, 2005
PDF (25 kb)

Design, Use and Implementation of the Fully-grouted Method for Piezometer Installation in Minnesota
Aaron Grosser, Barr

U of M, Minneapolis

Wednesday
April 13, 2005
PDF (25 kb)

Geosynthetics
Steve Gale, Gale-Tec

West Metro

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2003 - 2004
Meetings

Description or Topic

Location

March 10, 2004

Lightweight Fill Case Histories
Scott Wehrmeyer, Styrotech

KFAN The Restaurant
Roseville, MN

April 14, 2004

Geologic Mapping
Harvey Tolefson, MN Geologic Survey

KFAN The Restaurant
Roseville, MN

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Duluth
 

2006 - 2007
Meetings

Description or Topic

Location

Thursday
March 29, 2007
(PDF, 26 kb)

How to Read and Understand a Geotechnical Report
William C. Kwasny, PE
American Engineering Testing, Inc.

Grandma's Restaurant
522 Lake Ave South

Tuesday
May 1, 2007
(PDF, 25 kb)

Geogrid Subgrade Stabilization
James Howley, PE
Tensar International

Grandma's Restaurant
522 Lake Ave South

 

2005 - 2006
Meetings

Description or Topic

Location

Tuesday
December 6th, 2005
(PDF 25 kb)

GeoPiers
Charles Allgood, Jr., PE, Geopier® Foundations - Midwest

Grandma's Saloon & Grill, Canal Park

 

2004 - 2005
Meetings

Description or Topic

Location

Tuesday
November 30, 2004
PDF (31 kb)

Rock Foundation Issues
Stanley J. Vitton, PE, Ph.D. and Travis A. Davidsavor, EIT

Grandma's Saloon

Tuesday
March 29, 2005
PDF (24 kb)

Blast Vibrations – Predictions
Lee Petersen, P.E., Ph.D.

Grandma's Saloon

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