Queen's University Engineering Student Wins NAGS Paper Award

By L. David Suits – The North American Geosynthetics Society’s (NAGS) 2015 Student Paper Award was presented to Daniel Jones, an engineering student at Queen’s University (Canada) at Geosynthetics 2015 in Portland, Oregon. Jones was presented with a USD $500 award and will receive an invitation to present his winning paper in a special session at GeoAmericas 2016, the 3rd Pan-American Conference on Geosynthetics (10 – 13 April 2016, Miami, Florida).
The GeoAmericas invite includes a free full registration to the event plus a USD $1000 stipend towards travel expenses.
The paper was titled “Hydration of Geosynthetic Clay Liners in Antarctica.” Jones co-authored the work with Dr. R. Kerry Rowe (Department of Civil Engineering, Queen’s University) and Rebecca McWatters (Australian Antarctic Division, Department of the Environment, Australian Government), the latter of whom was honored with a NAGS Student Paper Award in 2009.
Jones presented the paper in Portland, in line with the rules of the NAGS Student Paper competition.
Selection of the winning paper is based on both the written paper and its oral presentation at a conference chosen by NAGS.
NAGS is not the only International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) chapter conducting a student paper competition. Each IGS chapter in the Americas is holding one, and the winner of each chapter competition will be invited to present at GeoAmericas 2016. They too will be offered a free full registration to GeoAmericas and USD $1000 travel stipend.
GeoAmericas 2016 (www.GeoAmericas2016.org) is being hosted by the North American Geosynthetics Society. This marks the first time the Pan-American Conference on Geosynthetics will be held in the United States.
For more information about the North American Geosynthetics Society, visit www.igs-na.org.