Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists

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WWW Links

 


Listings of links

CIRIA contaminated land web-site This web-site has been developed by CIRIA to be an authoritative source of guidance for contaminated land in the UK. The main part of the site hosts a database of published guidance and literature on contaminated land issues. The focus is on good practice guidance published in the UK, but also includes selected overseas publications that are widely used in the UK.

Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library Contains a database of engineering resources, an offshore engineering information service and an archive of news articles from engineering news groups

Contaminated land links  This site is a portal containing links to a wide range of contaminated land resources

Envirolink Network Includes events announcements, e-mail list archives, government resources directory, organisation directory covering both organisations and projects on environmental topics, current issues listings, educational material and publications.

GeotechLinks is a free American internet link directory for geotechnical engineers and researchers.  Here you can find internet links to online free books, manuals, thesis, papers, etc in the geotechnical engineering field.

Where to geo on the WWW
Where to geo on the WWW The complete text of an on-going series of informative articles by Dr Andrew Bond published in Ground Engineering. The articles cover all aspects of geotechnical engineering on the Internet, with up to date links to the sites discussed.

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Environment Listing of environmental WWW resources

World Wide Web Virtual Library of Geotechnical Engineering A comprehensive listing of geotechnical resources on the Internet including universities, geotechnical consultants, research laboratories, organisations, conferences and news groups

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Organisations

Association of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Specialists (Hong Kong)

American National Standards Institute Searchable database of ANSI Standards, purchasable on-line.

American Society of Civil Engineers Details of conferences, publications and a searchable publications database

ASFE - Associated Soil and Foundation Engineers - The American equivalent of the AGS!

American Society of Testing and Materials Searchable database of ASTM standards purchasable by fax

British Geological Survey Services and publications are listed with details of its Library and Archive holdings. The BGS Data Catalogue may be browsed by subject, area or BGS division.

British Standards Institution Lists of BS standards, and links to other international standards organisations.

Building Research Establishment Includes a listing of BRE's research programme

Canadian Geotechnical Society

CAS  The Chemical Abstract Service is the producer of the world's largest and most comprehensive database of chemical information.   Their principal databases, Chemical Abstracts (CA) and REGISTRY now include about 15 million documents and more than 22 million substance records.  Also see http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/ for more examples of CAS numbers

Civil Engineering Research Organisation Part of ASCE.

Construction Industry Research and Information Association Summarises recent CIRIA publications

Deep Foundations Institute American organisation with international membership including contractors, consultants, designers, academics and manufacturers

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions Lists DETR press releases, summaries of reports, Government White Papers, online database of current research in construction, planning and the environment.

Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of California Earthquake digital image database

Engineering Council

Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society

European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers Publications listing and Newsletter

Geological Society Comprehensive meetings calendar

Hong Kong Geotechnical Engineering Office Lists reports, standards, specifications, manuals and guides produced by the GEO.

International Geosynthetics Society Provides information about meetings, lectures and publications relating to geosynthetics

International Society of Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering Events Diary and News

International Standards Organisation On-line catalogue

Institution of Civil Engineers Meetings, conferences and publications

Midland Geotechnical Society Contains information about the Society, its activities, meetings and archives

National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research Information service, resources, publications, software, bibliographic information on earthquakes, earthquake engineering and natural hazard mitigation.

NICOLE The Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe.

Natural Environment Research Council Links to NERC research organisations

North American Geosynthetics Society

Transport Research Laboratory Publications listing

US Army Corp of Engineers

US Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station

US Environmental Protection Agency Lists and searchable database of EPA publications and research activities

US Geological Survey Contains information about the organisation, fact sheets, information resources, publications, press releases, research and links to related sites and data sets.

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Publications, libraries and bookstores

Amazon.co.uk Books An on-line bookstore with a searchable index that includes book reviews

Canadian Geotechnical Journal Free access to papers in selected issues published since February 1997.

Civil Engineering Database Searchable database of all American Society of Civil Engineers journals published since 1975. Lists titles and abstracts.

Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Presents technical papers on all aspects of geotechnical engineering

EJGE Magazine Includes geotechnical book reviews and job advertisements

Environmental Data Services -  publish a variety of European environmental information on the Internet and in print

Environment Publications Index from NUKOP List of UK Official Publications on the environment

Geological Society Publishing House List of all books published by the Geological Society together with abstracts.

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering Searchable contents list

Institution of Civil Engineer's Library Searchable library catalogue

Internet Bookshop On-line book shop with a searchable index.

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Table of contents for current issues of this ASCE journal.

Journals On-Line Thomas Telford Journals Geotechnical Engineering, Géotechnique and Ground Improvement. Contents lists. All papers available on-line to subscribers.

Laboratoires Central des Ponts et Chaussées Publications Searchable index of all LCPC publications in French.

Pile Buck A pile driving, foundation and marine contractors newspaper. Specification tables for piling hammers and sheet piling

Pileline Online Forthcoming meetings of the Deep Foundations Institute.

Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology Table of contents since May 1996.

Swedish Geotechnical Institute Publications Lists the titles of all Reports since 1977 and all Information papers since 1993.

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Software

AGS Compatible software listing

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Software Directory Catalogues several hundred programs and software suppliers in the fields of geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental engineering and data analysis. It also gives links to other software sites and catalogues

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Academic

Durham University Computer aided learning projects.

GeotechniCAL Project Describes this educational software project

UK Sensitive Map Details all UK University WWW sites

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Jobs

Careers in Construction A commercial jobs service offered by EMap Publications, and including jobs for Geotechnical Engineers

contamLandJobs  A job site dedicated to jobs in the contaminated land sector.

Earthworks Jobs for geoscientists, geotechnical and environmental engineers

GroundTechJobs.com  Job Vacancies, Courses and Products within the Ground Engineering, Environmental and Water Sectors.

GeoJobs International Jobs for geoscientists mainly in USA

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Information sites

ContaminatedLAND Includes background papers on contamination, relevant legislation and standards, site investigation procedures, forthcoming conferences, jobs, case studies and links to other web resources.

contaminated land links  This site is a portal containing links to a wide range of contaminated land resources

GeoSource Links to manufacturers of geotextiles, geogrids and other synthetic products for use in geotechnical engineering

groundwater.com Contains information about the Groundwater mailing list, an archive of messages, links to groundwater related Web sites and mailing lists, a directory of companies in the groundwater field.

Pile-Info Searchable database of information on pile types compiled by the Swedish Commision of Pile Research.

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Mailing lists

BioGroup Bioremediation discussion group

Engineering-geotech mail list An unmoderated list on soil mechanics and related fields

geo-computer-models mailing list Computer modelling in geoscience

geo-env mailing list Mailing list of the Geological Society Environment Group

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Internet Resources

Internet Resources Newsletter Reviews new Internet resources, "nice" web sites, the Internet in print, network news, recent books on the Internet and gives an alphabetical listing of resources that have been featured in past issues of the newsletter.

Navigating the World Wide Web Reviews a number of the common Internet search engines.

1000 Free Excel Tutorials and Tips A free site that contains links to over 1000 excel tips and tutorials. A great resource for anyone who uses Excel

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