The International Society of Environmental Geotechnology (ISEG) Webinar on “New Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Geotechnology” was successfully held on July 13-14, 2021. A total of 24 invited speakers and near 300 participants from Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania joined this event.
Prof. Bin Shi from Nanjing University, who is the President of ISEG, delivered a welcome speech in the opening ceremony. Prof. Shi briefly introduced the history and mission of ISEG. He pointed out that ISEG seeks to continue to promote scientific cooperation among countries, organizations and individuals on geoenvironmental issues. Prof. Shi then illustrated the motivation of holding the webinar. The world is facing new challenges in reaching carbon neutral targets, advancing sustainable infrastructure, solving pollution problems, controlling the pandemic etc., which, at the same time, offers “Environmental Geotechnology” new opportunities. Prof. Shi hopes that researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners can communicate to address these new challenges and opportunities as well as boost inspiration and collaborations through the webinar. Prof. Shi then thanks the organizing committee and the secretariat for the hardwork in organization. He also thanks all the invited speakers and guests for participation.
Welcome speech by Prof. Bin Shi, President of ISEG
The webinar was divided to four sessions, hosted by Prof. Chao-Sheng Tang (Secretary General of ISEG), Prof. Hong-Hu Zhu (Deputy Secretary of ISEG), Prof. Yan-Jun Du (Council Member of ISEG), and Prof. Kai Gu (Deputy Secretary of ISEG), respectively. The first speaker was Prof. Hilary I. Inyang, who is the Honorary President of ISEG and distinguished Professor and Director of Global Institute of Sustainable Development, Advanced Analysis and Design (GISDAAD) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Consultant on Water Security. His topic is “Improvement in Rock Trenchability for Lifelines and Energy Storage Chambers: Applications of Impact Fragmentation.” The 24 invited presentations cover a broad interest of the important and urgent research trends in Environmental Geotechnology. The recorded videos these presentations can be found in YouTube or Bilibili.
Presentation by Prof. Hilary I. Inyang, Honorary President of ISEG
List of invited speakers and presentations
At the end of the two-day webinar, Prof. Chao-Sheng Tang addressed the closing remarks. He highly spoke of the fruitful achievements of the event and thanks again for all speakers, participants, and organizing committee members. He promised that the ISEG will hold more events to promote the communication and collaboration of researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners in environmental geotechnology. This event was supported by Nanjing University.
Closing Remarks by Prof. Chao-Sheng Tang, Secretary General of ISEG
