Dear ISRM Members and Rock Mechanics Colleagues,
For the 34th ISRM Online Lecture the ISRM invited Professor Doug Stead, from Simon Fraser University, B.C, Canada . The title of the lecture is "Rock Slope Engineering: A Combined Remote Sensing-Numerical Modelling Approach". It will be broadcast on 24th June 2021 at 10 AM GMT at www.isrm.net.
Dr. Stead began his career in geotechnical engineering in 1978 working on rock and soil slope stability at Nchanga Open Pit in the Zambian Copperbelt, Africa. This was immediately followed by periods working in engineering geology and rock mechanics consulting in the UK and Hong Kong. In 1984, after obtaining his PhD at the University of Nottingham, investigating rock slope stability in UK surface coal mining he was appointed Lecturer in Applied Geology at the University of Papua New Guinea and then in 1986 Assistant Professor in Geological Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. From 1996-2000 he was Chair in Geotechnical Engineering Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, UK. In 2000, he returned to Canada where he was Chair in Resource Geotechnics until June 2021. His research has focussed on experimental rock mechanics (brittle fracture and acoustic emission), open pit and underground geomechanics and rock slope engineering, Current research emphasises the applications of numerical modelling, remote sensing, and most recently mixed-virtual reality visualisation in rock engineering.
Dr. Stead has received several awards for his contributions to geotechnical engineering from the Canadian Geotechnical Society, CGS, including the societies most prestigious award the RH Legget Medal (2017), the John Franklin Award for contributions to Canadian rock mechanics (2009) and the Thomas Roy Award for engineering geology, (2008). He was also awarded the Engineering Institute of Canada, John B. Stirling Medal (2019) for his leadership and services to geotechnical engineering.
Dr. Stead has authored over 300 technical papers on engineering geology and rock engineering. He has delivered numerous keynote presentations and has been selected as the Fall 2021 CGS Cross Canada Lecturer. He was co-author with Dr. Loren Lorig of the chapter on numerical modelling in the textbook "Rock Slope Engineering, 2017 5th edition" by Dr Duncan Wyllie and was co-editor with Dr. John Clague of the book "Landslides: Types, mechanisms and modelling".
Dr. Stead served as both ISRM Vice-President for North America and Chair of the ISRM Technical Commissions Oversight Committee (2015-19), He is Past Vice-President Technical for the Canadian Geotechnical Society and Past President of the Canadian Geoscience Council. Dr. Stead is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK and Affiliate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Stead has undertaken extensive research/consultancy on a wide range of projects in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
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