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The 2013 Annual Technical Forum will be a joint effort between the Appalachian States Coalition for Geohazards Impacting Transportation and the Interstate Technical Group on Abandoned Underground Mines (ITGAUM). This year’s Forum will include a pre-conference field trip and workshop on July 30.
This year’s technical sessions will focus on the following major topics:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
David L. Tyeryar, Deputy Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia
- Innovative and Integrative Field, Digital, and Remote Mapping
- Tunneling and Trenchless Excavation
- Landslides
- Monitoring and Instrumentation
- Squeeze, Creep and Collapsible Fill
- Geological Mapping
- Karst Issues
- Geo-environmental Aspects
- Investigation
- Monitoring
- Risk Assessment
- Inventory
- Remediation
- Environmental Issues
- Mining Methods
- Historical Aspects
Sponsored by Marshall University Center for Environmental, Geotechnical and Applied Sciences (CEGAS) at Marshall University