INNOVATION March-April 2018

MEMBER WINS SCHOLARSHIP FROM ENGINEERS CANADA Engineers and Geoscientists BC member Lauren Hutchinson, P.Eng., was presented with one of three 2017 Engineers Canada–TD Insurance Meloche

Hutchinson is researching how slopes behave in seismically active areas of the world by studying the effects of seismic shaking on rock slopes in central Nepal, where some of the highest rates of co-seismic and post-seismic landsliding occurred following major earthquakes in 2015. Smart. Choice.

Monnex scholarships on February 27 in Ottawa. These scholarships support professional engineers returning to university for further study or research in a field other than engineering, but one that complements their engineering practice.

GEOSCIENTISTS CANADA APPOINTS NEW CEO

Geoscientists Canada has a new CEO as of

March 1. Andrea Waldie, P.Geo., FGC, took over as

chief executive officer following the retirement of Oliver Bonham, P.Geo., FGC, after 12 years in the role. Waldie began serving as incoming CEO on February 1. The office of Geoscientists Canada remains in the Engineers and Geoscientists BC building in Burnaby. Waldie will guide the business affairs of Geoscientists Canada from a satellite office in Ontario, visiting the BC office on a scheduled and as- needed basis. For the past five years, Waldie has been a consultant through her company, Waldie Geo-Governance, on matters of governance and professionalism. She has also acted as business manager of the APGO Education Foundation and has been a consultant to Geoscientists Canada on a variety of projects. Prior to her consulting work, Waldie was the executive director and registrar of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO) for six years. She began her career as an exploration geoscientist, working for several different mining and mineral exploration companies.

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