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GSE Membership

GSE Membership fee is only $15/year for a regular member. Please print the membership form, fill the required information and mail it as instructed on the form. It is self-explanatory.

By default, GSE notices will be e-mailed to you. If you prefer not to receive the notices, please feel free to indicate so in the membership form. It will be assumed that you will visit this page for updates. Under no circumstances, your email address will me made available for mass mailing.

GSE By-Laws

GSE By-Laws, and applications for incorporation and formation of the society under The Societies Act (document dated Feb 5, 1969) have been retrieved by Don Lewycky from his archival records and put together in a 6-page historical document.

Privacy Agreement

The executive of the GSE values the privacy of its memebers. The GSE's membership information will not be released or sold to any individual or company. All requests for mass mailings are vetted by the GSE executive for relevance to the general membership and if deemed to be of sufficient interest, the GSE will forward the information to the memebers.

History

The Geotechnical Society of Edmonton (GSE) was registered as an independent Society on February 5, 1969. It is one of the oldest geotechnical groups in Canada and has a membership of approximately 190. The GSE was initially formed to bring professionals and non-professionals together so they could share their geotechnical experiences and ideas with one another. Membership to the GSE is extended to those individuals in private consulting, government, industry, students or anyone else who has an interest in geotechnical and geoenvironmental issues. Approximately once every four weeks from September to May, feature speakers address the membership body to discuss new developments and challenging projects in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering on both the local and global scales. The local Society is affiliated with the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS). The CGS is a federally incorporated, financially independent non-profit learned society governed by an elected Board of Directors. The membership is organized in geographical regions and technical divisions. In 1982, the GSE introduced the Geotechnical Service Award, which is currently known as Stan Thomson Geotechnical Society Award since 1999. This award recognizes a particular individual's contribution to the development and growth of the GSE and to geotechnical/ geoenvironmental engineering in the Edmonton area. The award consists of a commerative plaque and a life-time membership to the Society. In 1985, the GSE introduced the GSE Graduate Student Award, In 1999 the award was renamed N.R. Morgenstern Student Award since 1999. The award is given to the graduate student who submits the best paper as selected by the professors in the Geotechnical Division of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. Along with the monetary award and a certificate, the award winners are invited to present their paper to the general membership at a wine and cheese reception, held in the early fall. The wine and cheese meeting is the September meeting where the N.R. Morgenstern Graduate Student Award winner from the previous spring gives a presentation to the group. A poster session by other graduate students is also held at the reception, to allow the representatives from industry to meet and discuss current research projects with the students.Since 1995, the GSE has also sponsored an annual one-day symposium on various geotechnical and geo-environmental related themes.

GSE is extremely grateful to Don Lewycky for providing all the archival information for this website.