Secr¨¦taire g¨¦n¨¦ral : Dr Michel DEVEUGH¨¨LE
¨¦cole des Mines de Paris
Centre de G¨¦ologie de l'Ing¨¦nieur
c/o Universit¨¦ de Marne-la-Vall¨¦e
Batiment IFI
Cit¨¦ Descartes
5, boulevard Descartes
Champs-sur-Marne
77454 Marne-la-Vall¨¦e cedex 2 - FRANCE
Phone : + 33 1 49 32 90 10
Fax : + 33 1 49 32 91 28
Email : michel.deveughele@ensmp.fr / iaeg-sg@ensmp.fr
Paris, le 12 octobre 2006
To IAEG council members
N/R¨¦f. : MD/FN ¨C 2006-057
Objet : IAEG council

Dear Colleagues,
    The IAEG council gathered in Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 6th September 2006. You will soon receive the minutes of this meeting.
     The main decisions taken after a secret vote deal with :
     ¨C the approval of the proposal of cooperation agreement in order to create a Federation of Inter-national Geo-engineering Societies (FIGS), established by the presidents of the IAEG, the ISRM and the ISSMGE. This approval was acquired in the majority of two thirds (43 votes for, 10 votes against, 1 abstention) ;
     ¨C the election of the IAEG executive committee for the period 1st January 2007 - 31st December 2010. You will find herewith the list and contact details of members elected to all positions ;
     ¨C the designation of the hosting country which will welcome the 11th IAEG international congress : Auckland, Aoteoroa, New Zealand.
     On the other hand, it has been decided to hold the IAEG council meeting for 2007 at further venue and date :
     Vail, Colorado (USA)
     Sunday 3rd June 2007
     on the opportunity of the 1st North American Landslide Conference to take place there from 3rd to 10th June 2007.
     The web site of the conference is : http://www.mines.edu/academic/geology/landslidevail2007/.
     This council meeting will be preceded by a meeting of the executive committee on Saturday 2nd June 2007.
     Among points of the agenda of the council meeting will be included a proposal to increase the number of pages of the bulletin of our association, which implies an increase of the fee paid by the members with bulletin. You will find herewith a letter pr¨¦cising this proposal so that it can be exam-ined by each national group before the council meeting.
     In the end, the executive committee will nominate on its meeting in Vail the awardees for 2008 of Hans-Cloos medal and Richard-Wolters prize. You will find herewith a call for nominations.

Yours sincerely,
                                                                                                                         Michel Deveugh¨¨le
                                                                                                                        IAEG secretary general

Enclosures
Members of the executive committee 2007-2010
Letter of the secretary general related to the bulletin
Call for nominations for IAEG awards
1st North American Landslide Conference - Announcement No.3
Recipients
National groups
Past presidents
Executive committee 2003-2006
Executive committee 2007-2010
Presidents and secretaries of IAEG commissions
Editor-in-chief and co-editor of the bulletin
Presidents and secretaries generals of the ISRM and the ISSMGE



Secr¨¦taire g¨¦n¨¦ral : Dr Michel DEVEUGH¨¨LE
¨¦cole des Mines de Paris
Centre de G¨¦ologie de l'Ing¨¦nieur
c/o Universit¨¦ de Marne-la-Vall¨¦e
Batiment IFI
Cit¨¦ Descartes
5, boulevard Descartes
Champs-sur-Marne
77454 Marne-la-Vall¨¦e cedex 2 - FRANCE
Phone : + 33 1 49 32 90 10
Fax : + 33 1 49 32 91 28
Email : michel.deveughele@ensmp.fr / iaeg-sg@ensmp.fr
Paris, le 12 octobre 2006
To IAEG council members
N/R¨¦f. : MD/FN ¨C 2006-058
Objet : Bulletin - Fees
Dear Colleagues,
    Our Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment has developed well during the recent years. The number of papers received and the quality of the papers has increased considerably. As a result the Bulletin has also been included in the Science Citation Index, which makes it more interesting for those working in Academia to publish in the Bulletin.
     IAEG has always had the objectives not only to publish papers of good quality in its Bulletin, but also to offer a forum for publication for IAEG members in countries where Engineering Geology is still in development. This means that there are many more suitable papers being offered than what can now be published in the pre-sent 432 pages per year. The Executive Committee has for this reason discussed with the Editor in Chief Brian Hawkins the possibility of raising the number of pages up to about 500 in 2007 and up to about 600 in 2008. This would be possible but the publisher would charge the IAEG 4 € more per subscription (24 € in-stead of 20 € per year).
     Our present IAEG membership fees are structured as follows :

     We propose to modify these fees by raising the Bulletin component in the membership fee by 5 € per year for the years 2008 to 2011. The extra 1 € will give us a little more flexibility in the future to compensate the pub-lisher for costs of inflation without the necessity to raise our fees again. This means a 25 % price increase for a more than 35 % increase of number of pages.
     Furthermore we propose to introduce a new category of membership, "Individual members without bulletin", for 25 € per year. This new category is necessary as we are attracting individual members worldwide through the new possibility to register as IAEG member through the web site.
     All together this would lead to the following new fee structure valid from January 2008 :

     As we would like to give your national group the opportunity to warn your membership and take appropriate measures in time, we already announce now that we propose to make these new fees effective on 1st Janu-ary 2008. A formal decision however will still have to be taken in the next Council Meeting in Vail (USA) in June 2007.

Yours sincerely,
                                                                                                                         Michel Deveugh¨¨le
                                                                                                                        IAEG secretary general

Secretary General : Dr Michel DEVEUGH¨¨LE
?cole des Mines de Paris
G¨¦om¨¦canique et G¨¦ologie de l'Ing¨¦nieur
c/o Universit¨¦ de Marne-la-Vall¨¦e
Batiment IFI
Cit¨¦ Descartes
5, boulevard Descartes
Champs-sur-Marne
77454 Marne-la-Vall¨¦e cedex 2 - FRANCE
Phone : + 33 1 49 32 90 10
Fax : + 33 1 49 32 91 28
Email : michel.deveughele@ensmp.fr / iaeg-sg@ensmp.fr
Paris, le 12 octobre 2006
IAEG National Groups
Members of the IAEG Executive Committee 2007-2010
IAEG Past Presidents
O/Ref. : MD/FN ¨C 2006-059
Subject : 2008 Hans-Cloos Medal and Richard-Wolters Prize
Call for nominations

Dear Colleagues,
   According to IAEG statutes and by-laws, Hans-Cloos Medal and Richard-Wolters Prize will be awarded in 2008.
    The Hans-Cloos Medal is the senior award presented by IAEG, given to an engineering geologist of outstanding merit in commemoration of the "founder of geomechanics". The recipient should therefore be a person of international repute who has made a major contribution to engineering ge-ology in his/her written papers or to the development of engineering geology and/or the IAEG in their own area.
     The Richard-Wolters Prize specifically recognises meritorious scientific achievement by a youn-ger member of the engineering geology profession (less than fourty years old on 1st January 2004) and is awarded to honour Dr. Wolters' many contributions to international understanding and co-operation.
     Nominations must normally be made by a national group but members of the Executive Committee and Past Presidents may also propose individuals. Nominations must be sent to the IAEG Sec-retary General not later than 31st March 2007.
     The nominator shall provide :
     ¨C a statement of support for the nominee which should not be longer than two single-spaced A4 pages ;
    ¨C a copy of the nominee's curriculum vitae ;
    ¨C a list of publications (identifying the three most important papers, for a nominee to Richard-Wolters Prize).
     Nominations to these awards will be examined by IAEG Executive Committee on its 2007 meeting in Vail, Colorado (USA) on 2nd June 2007.
     We are expecting you to send us excellent nominations.

Yours sincerely,

                                                                                                                         Dr Michel Deveugh¨¨le
                                                                                                                         IAEG Secretary General

Encl. Extracts from IAEG by-laws
List of the distinguished bearers of Hans-Cloos Medal and Richard-Wolters Prize recipi-ents

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