Proceedings of 61st Canadian Geotechnical Conference and the 9th Joint CGS/IAH-CNC Groundwater Conference (GeoEdmonton '08)

Sessions:

• M1A Pile Foundations and Load Testing
• M1B GIS and Remote Sensing
• M1C Policy and Regulation and Conservation
• M1D Reinforced Soil and Soil/Structure Interaction
• M1E Advances in Modelling I - Constitutive Issues
• M2A Excavations and Special Foundation Issues
• M2B Acid Mine Drainage and Containment Issues
• M2C Groundwater and Development
• M2D Embankments and Dams
• M2E Advances in Modelling II - Consolidation & Other Applications
• M3A Landslides and Slopes I
• M3B Rock Mechanics
• M3C Groundwater and Surface Water Interactions
• M3D Soil Mechanics and Ground Improvement
• M3E Advances in Modelling III - Discrete Elements & Slope Stability
• T1A Special Session: Geotechnical Education for Modern Practice
• T1B Landslides and Slopes II
• T1C Groundwater/Terrain Interactions
• T1D CPT and Liquefaction Assessment
• T1E Landfills and Barriers
• T2A Transportation Geotechnique
• T2B Engineering Geology
• T2C Geochemistry and Contaminant Hydrogeology I
• T2D Fundamental Soil Mechanics
• T2E GeoEnvironmental Sustainability
• T3 Poster Festival
• W1A Special Session: Urban Geohazards I
• W1B Regional Issues and Studies
• W1C Special Session: Staff Retention and Motivation
• W1D Aquicludes and Aquitards
• W1E Oilsand and Petroleum Geomechanics
• W2A Special Session: Urban Geohazards II
• W2B Oilsand Tailings
• W2D Geochemistry and Contaminant Hydrogeology II
• W2E Cold Regions
• W3A Special Session: Urban Geohazards III
• W3B Paste Tailings and Cemented Paste Backfill
• W3C Instrumentation, Insitu Testing and Field Applications
• W3D General Hydrogeology
• W3E Contaminated Sites
• W4A Special Session: Urban Geohazards IV

M1A Pile Foundations and Load Testing


1. Evaluation of bearing capacity of piles using the results of different full-scale pile load tests
   Ali Noorzad, Mehran Karimpour-Fard, Ali Reza Mohammadi
2. Experience in driving over 1000 piles in Bruce County, Ontario
   Prapote Boonsinsuk, Trudy Laidlaw, Scott Eidt, Siva Nadarajah
3. Full-scale pile load testing of cast-in-place caissons using Osterberg Load-cell Method - Anthony Henday Drive Southeast Ring Road case study
   Graeme D Skinner, Dennis E Becker, Brad J A Appleton
4. Cost-benefit analysis for selection of pile tests
   Roger Skirrow, Rocky Wang
5. Pile loading tests at Golden Ears Bridge
   Ali Amini, Bengt H Fellenius, Makram Sabbagh, Ernest Naesgaard, Michael Buehler
6. An evaluation of pile load capacity estimates using CPTu and DMT methods in silty clay in High Prairie, Alberta
   Ivan R Cruz, John A Howie, Gustavo Padros, Dimitri Papanicolas, Ilmar A Weemees


M1B GIS and Remote Sensing


1. The use of terrestrial laser scanning, differential GPS surveying and panoramic photography to characterise the landslides and recession of the Holderness Coast, Yorkshire, England
   JD Quinn, W Murphy, L J West, J A Lawrence
2. Preliminary slope mass movements suceptibility mapping using LIDAR DEM
   Michel Jaboyedoff, Andrea Pedrazzini, Pascal Horton, Alexandre Loye, Ivan Surace
3. 3D geological model of a deltaic aquifer system formed in a buried channel of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec City, Canada
   Lise Lamarche, Michel Parent, René Lefebvre, Didier Perret
4. Application of GIS to landslide risk management in Hong Kong
   K C Ng, K M Chiu, K K S Ho, V M C Chan
5. Regional landslide mapping and detailed site characterization using InSAR
   J F Dehls, I H C Henderson, T R Lauknes, Y Larsen
6. Comparing an Artificial Neural Network and a physically-based model for landslide hazard zonation
   Mihai R Pavel, Jonathan Fannin, John D Nelson


M1C Policy and Regulation and Conservation


1. Managing the environment in infrastructure projects through Environmental Management Plans
   Beth Williston, Tamara Kondrachova
2. Using water wisely - Water conservation and enhanced oil recovery in Alberta
   Robert George
3. Working Well Program
   Krista Tremblett, Jennifer Macpherson
4. Baseline water well testing requirements in Coalbed Methane development areas of Alberta
   Steve Wallace, Brenda Austin
5. Regional groundwater monitoring initiatives related to the development of Alberta's oil sand resources
   Dustin Shauer, Brent Welsh
6. Advancing the science of source water protection: The well vulnerability technique and its application to a complex multi-aquifer watershed
   Jon Paul Jones, Emil O Frind, David L Rudolph, Rengina Rahman


M1D Reinforced Soil and Soil/Structure Interaction


1. Mechanically stabilized earth retaining walls, Glenmore Trail, Calgary
   J Halford, W Campbell, J Kerr, J Luty
2. A 3D soil-structure interaction analysis for a piled raft foundation in highly compressible soils
   James Z Ji, Leo Tse, Ken Been, Alfonso Quiñonez
3. Numerical modelling of the performance of a hybrid monopiled-footing foundation
   Mohamed El-Marassi, Tim Newson, Hesham El-Naggar, Kevin Stone
4. The influence of reinforcement spacing on the performance of three geosynthetic reinforced soil retaining walls
   Axel Nernheim, Richard J Bathurst
5. Influence of foundation compressibility on reinforced soil retaining wall behaviour
   Fawzy Ezzein, Richard J Bathurst
6. MSE submerged walls assist waterfront development, Chestermere, Alberta
   Paul J Boos, Richard Bassett, Bill Brockbank, Mark Park


M1E Advances in Modelling I - Constitutive Issues


1. Application of a critical state model for the cyclic loading of sands
   Reza Imam, Dave Chan
2. PFC2D Smooth joint contact model numerical experiments
   Nathan Deisman, Diego Mas Ivars, Matthew Pierce
3. A fabric dependent constitutive model for sand liquefaction 
   Ali Lashkari
4. Contemporary approaches to computing failure in geomaterials
   Richard G Wan, Mauricio Pinheiro, Qiang Li
5. Impact assessment of layer moduli on measured surface deflections via sensitivity analysis
   Dieter FE Stolle, Peijun Guo
6. Visualization of 3-D displacement field under a model footing using transparent soil
   Jinyuan Liu


M2A Excavations and Special Foundation Issues


1. Specialist foundation construction for large deep open excavations in Berlin, Germany
   Wolfgang G Brunner, Holger Itzeck
2. Jet-grouting case history: Millenium Water Olympic Village - False Creek, Vancouver, BC, Canada
   Paolo Gazzarrini, Matt Kokan, Stephen Jungaro, Adam Heath
3. Pile load tests for helical piles in oil sands site near Fort McMurray, Alberta
   Mohammed Sakr
4. The Bow, EnCana excavation support system design and performance
   Thomas Lardner, Matthew Janes, Martin Halliwell
5. Numerical simulation of screw piles under axial loads in a cohesive soil
   Yan Cui, Steve D Zou, Jerry Schmidt, Bob Patrick, Paul Murchison, Ian Harder
6. Numerical settlement analyses and design of bridge pier underpinning due to tunnelling
   Jinyuan Liu, Stephen Mitchell


M2B Acid Mine Drainage and Containment Issues


1. Coupled effects of sulphate and temperature on cemented tailings materials
   Mamadou Fall, Mukesh Pokharel
2. Oxygen monitoring in a cover with capillary barrier effects
   M Mbonimpa, J Hamdi, A Maqsoud, B Bussière, M Aubertin
3. A numerical study of oxygen flux through inclined covers with capillary barrier effects
   M Mbonimpa, F Cissokho, B Bussière, A Maqsoud, M Aubertin
4. Repeatability evaluation of instrumented column tests in acid mine drainage prediction and cover efficiency evaluation
   Isabelle Demers, Bruno Bussière
5. Spatial water quality distribution in the water cover used to limit acid mine drainage generation at the Don Rouyn site (QC, Canada)
   Mamert Mbonimpa, Sylvette Akué Awoh, Valery Beaud, Bruno Bussière, Jacques Leclerc
6. Column test investigation on the use of calcium carbonate by product as moisture-retaining layer to prevent acid mine drainage
   A Maqsoud, B Bussiere, B Plante, J-B Gelinas


M2C Groundwater and Development


1. Groundwater resource evaluation in southeastern Manitoba
   Jianrong Wang, Robert N Betcher, Graham C Phipps
2. Modeling potential environmental impact of new settlements on groundwater, Nile Delta, Egypt
   Mahmoud El Araby, Nahed El Arabi
3. Examining the impacts of climate change and human activities on groundwater recharge in Canada using historical data
   C Rivard, H Vigneault, A R Piggott, M Larocque, F Anctil, L Tremblay, A N Rousseau
4. WHPA delineation and well vulnerability assessment for drinking water source protection
   Dawood Muhammad
5. Characterization of the Paskapoo for sustainable groundwater development: A modeling approach
   Paul R J Wozniak, Masaki Hayashi, Laurence R Bentley, Stephen E Grasby, Matthew Eckfeldt
6. Développement d'un modèle hydrogéologique conceptuel pour le bassin de la rivière Chaudière, Québec
   Georges Forest, Nicolas Benoit


M2D Embankments and Dams


1. Effects of temperature and moisture on large-scale interface shear testing of sandbag dikes
   R Offman, J Blatz
2. Embankment construction of a very recent tidal deposit
   Serge Bourque, Arvid Landva, Joe MacDonald
3. Comportement des barrages en enrochement avec masque amont en béton de ciment reposant sur des dépôts de moraine ou sur des alluvions granulaires
   Michel Massiéra, Janelle Vautour, Anna Szostak-Chrzanowski
4. Peat unit weight effects on embankment stabilization 
   M Fabius, M W Bo, K Fabius
5. Case history - Seismic upgrade of the Seymour Falls Dam
   Neil K Singh, Len M Murray, Frank Huber, Murray Gant
6. Temperature-based seepage monitoring of Bark Lake embankment dam
   Tareq Salloum


M2E Advances in Modelling II - Consolidation & Other Applications


1. Multi-dimensional finite strain consolidation theory: modeling study
   S Jeeravipoolvarn, J D Scott, R J Chalaturnyk
2. Numerical analysis of expansive soil behaviour using the Swell Equilibrium Limit
   Bee Fong Lim, Greg Siemens, J Suzanne Boyle, Vicki Remenda, Andy Take
3. Consolidation in multi-layered soils: a hybrid computation scheme
   Jim Hazzard, Thamer Yacoub, John Curran
4. Consolidation modeling of oil sands fine tailings: history matching
   S Jeeravipoolvarn, R J Chalaturnyk, J D Scott
5. A numerical framework for soft ground tunnelling applications
   Mohamed Meguid, Hoang Kien Dang
6. Modelling AECL's Isothermal Test using a porosity dependent permeability (kwn) model and an elastoplastic model
   D G Priyanto, J A Blatz


M3A Landslides and Slopes I


1. Design of pit wall depressurization system - Highland Valley Copper, Logan Lake, BC
   Willy Zawadzki, Don W Chorley, Al Chance, John Scholte, George Warnock
2. Characterization of creep movements at the Little Chief Slide, BC
   Mohamed F Mansour, C Derek Martin, Norbert R Morgenstern
3. Landslide dams, Peace River lowlands, Alberta
   B G N Miller, D M Cruden
4. Comprendre le comportement d'une couche savon dans un glissement de terrain
   Muhsin Elie Rahhal, Nicolas Masaad, Johnny Rizkala
5. Development of a riverbank asset management system for the City of Winnipeg
   Alena James, James Blatz, Don Kingerski
6. Gas hydrate dissociation structures in submarine slopes
   Iain Gidley, Jocelyn LH Grozic


M3B Rock Mechanics


1. Comparison of two damage tensor formulas for rock masses
   Zhang Hui
2. Bedding surface roughness profiles and estimated dilation angles
   Dwayne Tannant, Navid Bahrani, Vikram A Gulati
3. Study on the effect of cement grouting on the shear behaviour of rock joints
   M Palassi, S Karimi
4. Stress and tunnel geometry effects on deformation modulus derived from plate load tests
   Alireza Agharazi, Dwayne Tannant, Ahmad Jafari
5. Properties of cemented rockfill used in an open pit mine
   Basanta K Shrestha, Dwayne Tannant, Sam Proskin, Jeff Reinson, Sarah Greer
6. Measured and computed movements of Gavoshan Tunnel
   Massoud Palassi, Mohammad H Arash


M3C Groundwater and Surface Water Interactions


1. Quantifying groundwater-surface water interactions at the hillslope scale, Havelock, Québec
   Catherine Guay, Miroslav Nastev, Claudio Paniconi
2. Algal community diversity in relation to water source in an alpine stream
   Beryl Zaitlin, Masaki Hayashi, James W Roy, Sue B Watson
3. A modeling study of climate change impacts on recharge and surface-groundwater interactions for the Thomas Brook Catchment (Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia)
   C Rivard, C Paniconi, M J Gauthier, G François, M Sulis, M Camporese, M Larocque, D Chaumont
4. Effects of depth-permeability distribution on groundwater exchange and water balance of prairie wetlands
   Masaki Hayashi, Garth van der Kamp
5. Assessment of groundwater/surface water interaction using statistical analysis
   Majid Sartaj, Javad Nasiri
6. Groundwater and low flows: Seasonality and trends in British Columbia
   D M Allen, K Stahl, A Werner, R D Moore, P H Whitfield


M3D Soil Mechanics and Ground Improvement


1. Effect of fines on deformation and matric suction response of unbound granular base materials
   Ovidiu Craciun, Sik-Cheung Robert Lo
2. Slip line solution by spreadsheet
   Rocky Wang, Roger Skirrow, Jian Ping Sun
3. Development of jet grout test sections
   Richard C Hanke
4. A new elastic visco-plastic model for time dependent behaviour of normally consolidated and lightly over-consolidated clays
   Rajibul Karim, Carthigesu T Gnanendran
5. Field evaluation of pavement load-carrying capacity on clay subgrade during construction
   J Chai, Al Cepas
6. Electrokinetic injection of grout into silty soils
   Amin Falamaki, Nader Shariatmadari, Ali Noorzad


M3E Advances in Modelling III - Discrete Elements & Slope Stability


1. 3D simulation of the trap door problem using the discrete element method
   Hoang Kien Dang, Mohamed Meguid
2. An algorithm to generate a specimen for discrete element simulations with a predefined grain size distribution
   Hoang Kien Dang, Mohamed Meguid
3. Drained-undrained response and other fundamental aspects of granular materials using DEM
   Mauricio Pinheiro, Richard G Wan, Qiang Li
4. Probabilistic slope stability analysis of the Red River Floodway channel
   Michael Van Helden, James Blatz
5. Modeling sampler plugging in gravels using the distinct element method (DEM)
   Chris R Daniel, John A Howie
6. Influence of ground surface shape and poisson's ratio on three dimensional factors of safety
   Pedro Rogério R Adriano, José Henrique Fernandes, Gilson de F. N. Gitirana Jr., Murray D Fredlund


T1A Special Session: Geotechnical Education for Modern Practice


1. Refining geotechnical education to reflect modern engineering practice
   Marolo Alfaro, James Blatz, Jim Graham
2. Post-graduate training for geotechnical engineers - Is it time for a Professional Master's?
   Jitendra S Sharma, S Lee Barbour
3. Geotechnical education for modern practice - A consultant's perspective
   Dennis E Becker
4. Geotechnical education for modern practice - Key competences for researcher and consultant
   Suzanne Lacasse
5. Undergraduate teaching of geotechnique in large-class environments: Experience at the University of British Columbia
   John Howie, Dharma Wijewickreme


T1B Landslides and Slopes II


1. Effect of water salinity on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of granular bentonite as light backfill material
   Hamid Batenipour, Bruce H Kjartanson
2. Monitoring results from a full-scale field test of rockfill columns
   Kendall Thiessen, Marolo Alfaro, James Blatz
3. Instability of unsaturated compacted soil slope due to rain infiltration
   Won Taek Oh, Sai K Vanapalli
4. Dependency of slope stability on strength anisotropy and spatial variability of soils
   Peijun Guo, Dieter F E Stolle
5. Use of residual shear strength parameters for slope stability analysis against surficial failures
   Venkata S Dronamraju, Anand J Puppala, Sarwenaj Ashraf
6. Remedial measures planned to prevent surficial failures
   Kenneth L Mccleskey, Anand J Puppala, Venkata S Dronamraju, Les Perrin


T1C Groundwater/Terrain Interactions


1. Fluid reservoir slope instability due to draw down affect
   L Bijeljanin, N Ferreira
2. Aquifer thermal monitoring of an open loop geoexchange system, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
   Katherine S Johnston, H Scott Schillereff, Aidan Kiernan
3. Linking upland water sources and valley bottom aquifers in a mountainous watershed
   Brian D Smerdon, Diana M Allen, Mary-Ann Berg
4. Till geochemistry controls on underlying bedrock water quality - Paskapoo aquifer system, southern Alberta 
   Stephen Grasby, Zhuoheng Chen, Paul Wozniak, Jerry Osborn
5. Groundwater recharge assessment in northern Ghana using soil moisture balance and chloride mass balance
   Marc-André Carrier, René Lefebvre, James Racicot, Enoch B Asare
6. Using hydrogeologic data for geoexchange potential mapping, City of Whitehorse, Yukon
   H Scott Schillereff


T1D CPT and Liquefaction Assessment


1. Reliability of sandy soil liquefaction susceptibility using cone penetration testing
   Yasser A Hegazy
2. Effects of a thin liquefiable foundation layer on deformations of a rockfill dam subjected to earthquake shaking
   Mahmood Seid-Karbasi, Upul Atukorala, Mike Gowan, Amanda Barrett
3. Evaluation of liquefaction potential at Chapar-Abad Dam, Iran
   Ali Uromeihy, Ghodrat Barzegari
4. 2005 NBCC-Based liquefaction assessment
   Hasan Mohamad
5. Etude comparative des méthodes d'évaluation de la liquéfaction à partir des essais SPT et CPT
   Muhsin Elie Rahhal, Dona Zakhem
6. Evaluating O-cell response from seismic cone tests
   Paul W Mayne, David J Woeller


T1E Landfills and Barriers


1. Linguistic modeling of biogas generation in simulated anaerobic bioreactor landfills
   Mohamed S Abdallah, Mostafa A Warith, Leta Fernandes, Septa Rendra
2. Hydraulic barrier and its impact on the performance of cover with double capillary barrier effect
   Amir M Abdolahzadeh, Benoit L Vachon, Alexandre Cabral
3. Development of high temperature resistant geomembranes for oil sands secondary containments
   Andrew Mills, Dave Martin
4. Innovative design for landfill caps: A case study of the City of Ottawa's Trail Road Landfill
   Mark Simpson, James MacLachlan, Derrick Upton
5. Closed-system investigation of GCL hydration from subsoil
   M H T Rayhani, R K Rowe, R W I Brachman, G Siemens, A Take
6. Case study: Deformations of a steep slope excavated in a municipal solid waste landfill
   I R Fleming, M K Singh, P J Dewaele, F S Barone


T2A Transportation Geotechnique


1. Catastrophic piping failure of Saskatchewan Provincial Highway No. 16: A geohazard case study
   P Jorge Antunes, Moir D Haug, D Chad LePoudre, Brent L Marjerison
2. Golden Ears Bridge - Geotechnical seismic design aspects
   Ernest Naesgaard, Ali Azizian, Dan Yang, (Uthaya) M Uthayakumar, Ali Amini, Peter M Byrne
3. Use of a real-time remote data acquisition system to monitor the performance of sand drains at the proposed bridge site near St. Louis, SK.
   P Antunes Jorge, Moir D Haug, D Chad LePoudre, Fernando M Antunes, Ania M Anthony
4. Use of rockfall nets on Canadian National Railway - Design constraints and solutions
   Mark Pritchard, Tim Keegan, Tom Edwards, Allen Benson, Steve Mumma
5. Bridge pier movements induced by micropile installations
   Blake Leew, Peter Thomson, Dennis Becker, Chris Bunce
6. Monitoring cyclic strain below a railway embankment overlying a peaty foundation using novel instrumentation 
   Michael Hendry, Derek Martin, Lee Barbour, Tom Edwards


T2B Engineering Geology


1. Detection of covered rock separation strata based on borehole camera technology
   Chuanying Wang, K Tim Law, Weichun Sun
2. Time-dependent ground surface subsidence due to room and pillar coal mining
   Yasser A Hegazy
3. Interpretation of SCPTu Data in Stiff Soils and soft rock 
   M Elbanna, D Woeller, J Greig, J Sharp, J Grass
4. Comparison of 2D and 3D distinct element analyses in stability of convex jointed rock slopes
   Massoud Palassi, Mehdi Ashtiani
5. Seismic site response modelling of representative soil columns in the Quebec City region
   M Nastev, L Lin, N Naumoski, D Perret, M Parent, L Lamarche
6. The role of heterogeneity on the development of excavation-induced fractures in the opalinus clay
   Salina Yong, Peter K Kaiser, Simon Loew, Corrado Fidelibus


T2C Geochemistry and Contaminant Hydrogeology I


1. High-precision depth-sequential groundwater quality sampling in the deeper subsurface
   Lucien S Lyness, R Walt Midgley, Gilein J Steensma
2. Environmental fate and transport of nitroglycerin from propellant residues at firing positions in the unsaturated zone
   Aurélie Bellavance-Godin, Richard Martel, Guy Ampleman, Sonia Thiboutot
3. Measurements of elevated total dissolved gas pressure in an Albertan groundwater monitoring well
   James Roy, Cathy Ryan, Jackie Randell, Joyce MacNeil
4. Mass separation and risk assessment of commingled contamination in soil and ground water
   Q L Dai, T S Chau
5. Glyphosate in shallow groundwater in Canada
   Dale R Van Stempvoort, Susan Brown, Gwyn Graham, Yefang Jiang, John Spoelstra
6. Do no-purge sampling techniques yield a significant difference relative to traditional sampling techniques for shallow groundwater
   Alexander Oiffer, James Armstrong, Brent Moore, Trevor Butterfield, Morris Maccagno


T2D Fundamental Soil Mechanics


1. 1-D Consolidation characteristics of kaolinite-bentonite mixtures with different pore fluid salinity
   Delakshan Inparajah, Ron C K Wong
2. Have we understood enough on consolidation theory?
   Myint Win Bo
3. Deformation characteristics of sands in unloading
   Antone Dabeet, Dawn Shuttle
4. Interpretation of falling-head tests performed on low hydraulic conductivity soils
   Paul Chiasson
5. Influence of matric suction on the compressibility behaviour of a compacted unsaturated fine-grained soil
   Kenton C Power, Sai K Vanapalli
6. On the undrained compressive behaviour of gassy sand
   Chamika K Haththotuwa, Jocelyn LH Grozic


T2E GeoEnvironmental Sustainability


1. Cu fractionation and plant accumulation in a soil contaminated with Cu and amended with lime, compost, and organic matter
   Prabha Padmavathiamma, Loretta Y Li
2. A spray freeze field investigation for road salt recycling of contaminated melt water and sand wash water
   Christina Tatarniuk, Robert Donahue, David Sego
3. Sustainability in remediation - Calculating CO2 emissions associated with varied remediation activities
   Lesley Reid
4. The sustainability of natural attenuation for the remediation of contaminated sites
   Catherine N Mulligan, Masaharu Fukue, Raymond N Yong
5. Tracking changes in hydraulic conductivity of soil reclamation covers with the use of air permeability measurements
   Heather Rodger, S L Barbour


T3 Poster Festival


1. Re-examination of the Little Smoky Slide
   Mohamed F Mansour, C Derek Martin, Norbert R Morgenstern, David M Cruden
2. Uncertainty in spatial distribution of residual NAPL and its downstream impacts
   Amir H Hosseini, Clayton V Deutsch, Kevin W Biggar, Carl A Mendoza
3. Geochemical and isotopic characterization of a regional bedrock/surficial aquifer system, Southeastern Manitoba
   Graham Phipps, R N Betcher, J Wang
4. A methodology for hydrogeomechanical characterization of coalseam reservoirs
   Nathan Deisman, Richard J Chalaturnyk
5. Mapping and monitoring coal mine subsidence using LiDAR and InSAR
   Corey R Froese, Shilong Mei
6. Pile bearing capacity in glacial till
   Kelly V Pardoski
7. Integration of geophysical, geochemical, and direct push methods for the detection of leachate plumes
   Laurie Tremblay, Erwan Gloaguen, René Lefebvre, Jean-Marc Ballard, Daniel Paradis, Yves Michaud
8. Collapsibility potential of Brazilian latosol using CPT results
   Mauricio Pinheiro, Gerson JM Anjos, Renato P Cunha
9. Quantifying changes in groundwater storage using water table fluctuation and GRACE Satellite data, Mali, Africa
   Chris Henry, Diana Allen
10. Numerical modelling of three dimensional groundwater flow with spreadsheets
    Ali Shokri, Alireza Hejazi
11. Evaluation of the rate of movement of a reactivated landslide
    Nejan Huvaj-Sarihan
12. Reduction of the dimension of the subsurface reactive transport problem
    Jan Šembera, Lukáš Zedek, Jiří Maryška
13. Estimating basin brine fluxes to Lake Winnipegosis
    Erica C Underwood, Grant Ferguson, Stephen E Grasby
14. Scale implications for estimating fractured bedrock permeability
    Hendrik Voeckler, Diana Allen
15. Hand-mined tunnel crossing of a railway in clay till
    Melanie Woytiuk, Heinrich Heinz
16. Dynamic-static drainage consolidation method on silty ground
    Li-juan Zhang, Zhang-ming Li, K Tim Law
17. Paper mill sludge - Application in geoenvironmental engineering
    Lidiane DSI Knop, Alexandre Knop, Nilo Cesar Consolib, Karla Salvagni Heineck
18. Ancestral buried valleys of the Peace River: Effects on the town of Peace River
    A James Morgan, Roger C Paulen, Corey R Froese
19. Compressive pile load tests on continuous flight auger piles and on a driven timber pile in silty clay soils in High Prairie, Alberta
    Gustavo Padros, Dimitri Papanicolas
20. A preliminary study on the effects of geotexture upon seepage flow
    Zhang Hui
21. Combined GPS and EDM Monitoring on Turtle Mountain, Alberta 
    Glen Bjorgan, Corey R Froese
22. The fate and migration of cyanide discharged by steel industries into groundwater
    Majid Sartaj


W1A Special Session: Urban Geohazards I


1. Quaternary legacies to managing urban geohazards in Canada
   J Clague
2. Science and judgment - Landslide risk research in British Columbia - The last 30 years
   O Hungr
3. Safe for the Use Intended
   K Wayne Savigny


W1B Regional Issues and Studies


1. Predicting groundwater recharge in the Okanagan Basin: A comparison of three models
   Jessica E Liggett, Diana M Allen
2. The geochemistry of groundwater on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
   Pat Lapcevic, Angela Kingerlee, Greg Bickerton, Vicki Carmichael
3. Re-evaluating the aquifer hydraulic properties within the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada
   Vicki Carmichael, Diana Allen, Sylvia Kenny, Colleen Gellein, Mike Wei
4. Climate change and slope stability - improving our forecasting capabilities
   N Dixon, T A Dijkstra, S Glendinning, P N Hughes, D A B Hughes, D Clarke, J Smethurst, W Powrie, D G Toll, J Mendes
5. Fuzzy comprehensive assessment of water environmental quality of Wei River, China
   Xinwei Lu, Loretta Y Li, Kai Lei, Lijun Wang, Yuxiang Zhai, Jing Huang


W1C Special Session: Staff Retention and Motivation


1. Staff attraction and retention: Jacques Whitford experience
   H P Green


W1D Aquicludes and Aquitards


1. Through-migration of contaminants in aquitards and delayed releases into underlying water-supply aquifers
   Richard Jackson, Michael Lord
2. L'eau interstitielle de l'argile sensible: Extraction et analyse
   Benabdallah El Mehdi, Robert P Chapuis, François Réginensi
3. Evaluating the effects of clay and gas compressibility during field permeability tests
   François Duhaime, Robert P Chapuis
4. Advective-diffusive controls on solute transport in a clay-rich aquitard: In situ experiment
   Brigitte EJ Boldt-Leppin, M Jim Hendry, S Lee Barbour, Leonard I Wassenaar


W1E Oilsand and Petroleum Geomechanics


1. Oil sands mine pit wall design and performance at Syncrude
   Robert Cameron, Murray Danku, Gurpreet Purhar
2. Residual shear strength direct shear testing in Clearwater Formation clays to model actual field conditions
   E C McRoberts, Robert Cameron, Wayne Mimura
3. Geophysics comes of age in oil sands development
   Paul Bauman, Rob Birch, Dan Parker, Brad Andrews
4. Geo-mechanics in hydrate reservoir simulation - An evaluation of thermally induced stresses and strains in a body of soil
   Anuruddhika G Jayasinghe, Jocelyn LH Grozic
5. In-situ stress regime in the Viking Formation, Southwest Saskatchewan
   C D Hawkes, O Hamid


W2A Special Session: Urban Geohazards II


1. Urban landslide management in Seattle, Washington
   William Benzer
2. Landslide risk management in the District of North Vancouver
   Fiona Dercole
3. Urban geohazards: The legal issues
   John Singleton
4. Management of geohazard and related losses
   Sherman Chow


W2B Oilsand Tailings


1. Tests for wide range of compressibility and hydraulic conductivity of flocculated tailings
   J D Scott, S Jeeravipoolvarn, R J Chalaturnyk
2. Compaction of upstream construction tailings dam beaches using dozers
   Scott Martens, Tyler Lappin, Rod Godwaldt
3. Hydraulic fracture considerations in oil sand overburden dams
   Robert Cameron, Barbara Madden, Murray Danku
4. Dewatering of oil sands tailings using Cross Flow Filtration
   Nicholas Beier, Dave Sego
5. Evaluation of sludge consolidation from hydraulic gradient tests conducted in large size columns
   Lincar Pedroni, Michel Aubertin
6. Quantitative study of tailings segregation
   Yetimgeta T Mihiretu, Rick J Chalaturnyk, J Don Scott


W2D Geochemistry and Contaminant Hydrogeology II


1. Measuring the redox state of groundwaters: revisiting the use of the Platinum electrode in contaminated aquifers
   Richard Jackson
2. Uncertainty in measured biodegradation rate constant for heterogeneous aquifers
   Amir H Hosseini, Clayton V Deutsch, Carl A Mendoza, Kevin W Biggar
3. Ethanol and gasoline transport in the capillary fringe: Unmonitored natural attenuation?
   Juliana Freitas, James Barker
4. Attenuation of dissolved aromatic hydrocarbons from residual gasoline : Source depletion and bioattenuation controls
   Juliana Freitas, Tianxiao Yang, James Barker, Marian Mocanu, John Molson
5. Geochemical transport modelling of acid mine drainage within heterogeneous waste rock piles
   J Molson, O Fala, M Aubertin, B Bussière


W2E Cold Regions


1. Experimental studies of thaw consolidation of fine grained permafrost soils from the Mackenzie Valley
   Kim Lesage, Baolin Wang
2. The transient layer and slope stability in fine-grained permafrost soils
   Baolin Wang, Haoqiang Li, Bhuwani Paudel
3. Foamed gravel backfill for piles in permafrost
   Brian Zaharko, Dave Sego
4. Dam construction at Diavik using bituminous geomembrane liners
   John Cunning, Allison Isidoro, Terry Eldridge, Jeff Reinson
5. Convective heat transfer in waste rock piles under permafrost environment
   Hoang-Nam Pham, David C Sego, Lukas U Arenson, David Blowes, Leslie Smith
6. Hydrogeological data collection and interpretation at arctic mines in the continuous permafrost zone
   Robert C Dickin, Ryan Mills, Rina Freed


W3A Special Session: Urban Geohazards III


1. Landslide hazard and risk management in Alberta
   Corey Froese
2. Examples of risk management strategies for geohazard management in Manitoba
   James Blatz
3. Development of a quantitative approach for evaluating and managing the risk associated with large retrogressive slides
   Catherine Thibault, Janelle Potvin, Denis Demers
4. Applications of GIS tools to ground hazard assessment for railway infrastructure
   Derek Martin, Hengxing Lan, Jean Hutchins, Pete Quinn


W3B Paste Tailings and Cemented Paste Backfill


1. Modeling the heat development in hydrating CPB Structures
   Othman Nasir, Mamadou Fall
2. In situ properties of cemented paste backfill in an Alimak Stope
   Murray Grabinsky, Will Bawden, Dragana Simon, Ben Thompson
3. Consolidation characteristics of early age cemented paste backfill
   Erol Yilmaz, Tikou Belem, Bruno Bussière, Mostafa Benzaazoua
4. Paste backfill of shallow mine workings for land reclamation in Canmore, Alberta
   R Predika, A Beattie, R Beddoes
5. Visualization and modelling of dynamic paste tailings flows
   Julio Henriquez, Paul Simms
6. Unsaturated flow and evaporation in multilayer deposits of gold paste tailings
   B Fisseha, R Bryan, P Simms


W3C Instrumentation, Insitu Testing and Field Applications


1. Instrumentation for field monitoring in expansive soils
   Yafei Hu, Shahid Azam
2. Evaluating the pressuremeter test for determining p-y curves for laterally loaded driven piles in clay
   Farid Messaoud, Paul J Cosentino
3. Experience with the installation and performance of in-place slope inclinometers
   John Sobkowicz, Melanie Woytiuk, John Lemke
4. Large scale plate load test on gypsum-rich soils
   Howard D Plewes, Carlos Mejia
5. Addressing geotechnical considerations of horizontal directional drilling using the new design tool BoreAid^tm
   Alireza Bayat, Karl Lawrence, Mark Knight
6. Field measurement of shear wave velocity of soils
   Fanyu Zhu, K R Peaker, Shaheen Ahmad


W3D General Hydrogeology


1. Multivariate integration of CPTu/SMR and hydraulic conductivity measurements for the definition of hydrofacies in unconsolidated sediments
   Daniel Paradis, René Lefebvre, Erwan Gloaguen, Laurie Tremblay, Jean-Marc Ballard, Roger Morin
2. Etude de la conductivité hydraulique des mélanges à granulométrie étalée
   Kouadio Koffi, Michel Aubertin, Maria A Hernandez, Mariam Ouangrawa, Robert Chapuis, Bruno Bussiere
3. Regional hydrogeological studies: The value of data collected from continuously cored boreholes.
   R D Knight, H A J Russell, C Logan, M J Hinton, DR Sharpe, S E Pullan, H L Crow
4. Stochastic numerical simulations of long term unsaturated flow in waste rock piles
   O Fala, M Aubertin, B Bussière, R Chapuis, J Molson
5. The dipole flow and reactive tracer test for aquifer parameter estimation
   Gillian Roos, Neil R Thomson, Ryan D Wilson, Steven F Thornton
6. Modélisation de haute résolution de l'enveloppe d'un aquifère libre par approche géostatistique
   Routin Grégory, Erwan Gloaguen, René Lefebvre


W3E Contaminated Sites


1. Implications of data uncertainty in geo-environmental site assessment
   A G L Vickers, W B Kindzierski, T T Wong, J G Carss, J G Agar
2. Radon levels in a karst cave network in Shaanxi, China
   Xinwei Lu, Loretta Y Li, Xiaolan Zhang
3. Mercury and arsenic contamination assessment of roadway dust from Baoji, NW China
   Xinwei Lu, Loretta Y Li, Lijun Wang, Kai Lei, Jing Huang, Yuxiang Zhai
4. Effect of strong acid on some geotechnical properties of fine-grained soils
   A T Jansen, J S Sharma, S L Barbour, M J Hendry
5. Laboratory contaminant migration assessment of soil cement mixtures
   Vincent Goreham, Craig Lake, Pak Yuet, Colin Dickson, Chuck Wilk
6. Conversion of Cr (vi) in water and soil using rhamnolipid
   Ismat Ara, Catherine N Mulligan


W4A Special Session: Urban Geohazards IV


1. Guidelines for Landslide Assessments in British Columbia
   Doug VanDine
2. Debris flow and lahar management in the Pacific Northwest
   Richard LaHusen