2024 List of Prize Winners
R.F. Legget Medal
Dr. Ian D. Moore
Students
Coming soon
CGS Graduate Student Award (1st)
Sepehr Chalajour (a), University of Manitoba
Paper Title: Assessment of drag forces on piles subject to embankment loads
Advisor : Dr. James Blatz
CGS Graduate Student Award (2nd)
Natalie Arpin, Queen’s University
Paper Title: Understanding Frost Jacking Effects on Transportation Infrastructure in Permafrost Regions: Insights from the Hudson Bay Railway
Advisor: Dr. Andy Take
CGS Undergraduate Student Awards (1st - Individual)
Ian Kennedy, Queen’s University
Paper Title:Debris Flow Numerical Model Validation using Granular Column Collapse
Advisor : Dr. Andy Take, Dr. Ryan Mulligan, Dr. Josh Woods
CGS Undergraduate Student Awards (2nd - Individual)
Paige Schotanus, McMaster university
Paper Title: Rock Mass Characterization of the Niagara Escarpment, Hamilton, Ontario: Implications of Schmidt Hammer Measurements for Geohazard Management
Advisor : Dr. Carolyn Eyles
CGS Undergraduate Student Awards (1st - Group)
Cassidy Teodoro-Neville
Emma Ste Croix
Mathew Ghirardi
Queen’s University
Paper Title: Golden Moose Mine Twin Portal and Development Drift Design
Advisor : Dr. Vicki Remenda
CGS Undergraduate Student Awards (2nd - Group)
Katrijn Bjornson
Julia Costa
Luke Komisarski
Matthew Liew
University of British Columbia
Paper Title: Landslide Mitigation for CN Rail
Advisor : Dr. Jason Yeung
Canadian Foundation for Geotechnique Michael Bozozuk National Graduate Scholarship
Mei Li, University of Toronto
Dennis Becker CFG
Liam Soufi, University of Manitoba
CGS Colloquium (GRB)
Coming soon
CGS Colloquium
Dr. Jennifer Day, Queen’s University
Cross Canada Lecture Tour
Coming soon
Spring CCLT
Dr. Ellen Rathje, Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Ellen M. Rathje is the Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at th e University of Texas at Austin (UT) , and a Senior Research Scientist at the UT Bureau of Economic Geology . She is an acknowledged expert in the areas of seismic site response analysis, seismic slope stability, induced seismicity, and field reconnaissance after earthquakes . Dr. Rathje is a founding member and previous Co – Chair of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Re connaissance (GEER) Association, and currently the Principal Investigator for the DesignSafe – ci.org cyberinfrastructure that supports research in natural hazards engineering . She has been honored with the 2022 Peck Lecture Award from the ASCE Geo – Institute, the 2018 William B. Joyner Lecture Award from the Seismological Society of America and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the 2010 Huber Research Prize from the ASCE . She was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2016.
Lecture Topics:
- Regional – Scale Seismic Landslide Assessment s for Distributed Infrastructure
- New Approaches for Evaluating the Seismic Performance of Slopes and Earth Dams
- Site Response Analysis: Does it Work?
- Learning from Earthquakes and Other Natural Hazards: Past, Present, and Future
Fall CCLT
Jocelyn L. Hayley, PhD, PEng, FEIC, FCAE Professor (Geotechnical), Department of Civil Engineering University of Calgary
Jocelyn is a Professor (Geotechnical) in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary. She holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Alberta and a PDF from the Norwegian Geotechnical Insitute. Her research focuses on understanding how to mitigate and adapt to the impact of climate change in permafrost and offshore sediments, with a focus on soil behaviour. She has been recognized with Fellowship in the Engineering Insitute of Canada and Canadian Academy of Engineering, been awarded the EIC.
Canadian Pacific Railway Engineering Medal, the APEGA Women in Engineering and Geoscience Champion Award, and delivered the 2022 Canadian Geotechnical Society Hardy Address. Jocelyn has also served in academic leadership positions, including Head of Civil Engineering and Senior Associate Dean Research
Lecture Topics:
- Shifting Ground: Permafrost Challenges in a Changing Canadian North
- Shifting Tracks: Permafrost Thaw along the Hudson Bay Railway
2023 List of Prize Winners
R.F. Legget Medal
Dr. S. Lee Barbour (Posthumously)
Cross Canada Lecture Tours
Spring 2023
Dr. Steve Kramer – University of Washington
Fall 2023
Dr. Hesham El Naggar, University of Western Ontario
Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium
Dr. Pooneh Maghoul, Polytechnique Montreal
Topic: Role of Geotechnical Engineering in Human Settlement on the Moon and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities
Michael Bozozuk National Graduate Scholarship
Naveel Islam, University of Alberta
Dennis Becker M.Sc. Award
Émélie Gagnon, Queens University
Graduate Student Presentation Award
First Prize:
Maha Saleh, University of Ottawa
Title: Simple Tools for Implementation of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics into Routine Geotechnical Engineering Applications
Advisor: Dr. Sai Vanapalli
Second Prize:
Sepehr Chalajour, University of Manitoba
Title: Assessment of Drag Force on Piles Subjected to Embankment Loads
Advisor: Dr. James Blatz
Undergraduate Student Report (Individual)
First Prize:
Kelly Lowry, Carleton University
Title: Factors Affecting Axial and Lateral Load Transfer of Hollow Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Piles in Soft Clay
Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Rayhani
Second Prize:
Henry Gage, McMaster University
Title: Greater than the sum of its parts: Passive remote sensing and paleoclimatic sediment data provide a holistic perspective on glacial processes
Advisor: Dr. Carolyn Eyles
Undergraduate Student Report (Group)
First Prize:
Samantha Bennett, Knut Lokken, Kathleen O’Connor, Matthew Taylor, Nathanial Tratnik – University of New Brusnwick
Title: Design of Sustainable Compacted Soil Blocks for Raising Dykes Along the New Brunswick Fundy Coastline Due to Climate Change Driven Sea Level Rise
Advisor: Dr. Othman Nasir
Second Prize:
Gurjap Grewal, Abeer Lamba, Caleigh MacDonald, Owen Perfect – University of British Columbia
Title: Conceptual Closure Design for the White Sullivan Prospecting Mine Tailings Storage Facility
Advisors: Dr. Jason Yeung and Dr. Susan Hollingshead
2022 List of Prize Winners
R.F. Legget Medal
Dr. Robert Chapuis
Cross Canada Lecture Tours
Spring 2022
Dr. Doug Stead
Fall 2022
Dr. Catherine Mulligan,
Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium
Dr. Nicholas Beier
Michael Bozozuk National Graduate Scholarship
2022 – Heidi Cossey, University of Alberta
Dennis Becker M.Sc. Award
2022 – Abigail Paul, University of Alberta
Graduate Student Presentation Award
1st Prize
- Bruce Gee
2nd Prize
- Lisa Tauskela
Undergraduate Student Report (Individual)
1st Prize
- Frances Hallen
2nd Prize
- Henry Gage
Undergraduate Student Report (Group)
1st Prize
- Paul Brezanoczy Edwards
- Christian Valerio
- Matthew Weiss
2nd Prize
- Killian Bell
- Kenneth Lemieux
- Kelly Lowry
- Marco Maggioni
- Liam Sickinger
- Davis Stambolich