Announcements
Congratulations to the 2025-2026 EEGD Management Board
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Chair: W. Paul Burgess – California Geological Survey
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First Vice-Chair: Luke McGuire - University of Arizona
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Second Vice-Chair: Ben Leshchinsky - Oregon State University
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Secretary/Treasurer: Kate Mickelson – Washington Geological Survey
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Student Representatives: Lauren Guido - Colorado School of Mines, and Corey Crowder – University of Arizona
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Thanks to our past Chair, Ann Youberg (Arizona Geological Survey) for her leadership and dedication to the EEGD over the past four years!
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Thanks to our past Student Representative, Grace Braver - East Tennessee State University, for her dedication to the EEGD and the engineering geology student community!
Congratulations to the 2025 EEGD Award Winners
- Distinguished Practice: William (Bill) Schulz – United States Geological Survey
- Meritorious Service: Francis Rengers – United States Geological Survey
- E.B. Burwell Award: Matthias Jakob, Scott McDougall, and Paul Santi (2024). Advances in Debris-Flow Science and Practice. Publisher: Springer Nature, Switzerland AG, p. 636. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-48691-3
- Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lectureship: Christopher Stohr – Illinois State Geological Survey (Emeritus)
- Student award: Shelmon Scholarship and Meeting Awards
- Outstanding 2025 Connects Student Presentation awards:
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o Scholarship: Tracy Chukwuma – University of Georgia
o Scholarship: Nicole LeRoux - Dalhousie University
o Scholarship: Summer Montoya – Dalhousie University
o Meeting: Delaney Kirr – Virginia Tech
o Meeting: Jorge Santiago – University of Arizona
o Meeting: Imran Ullah - Quaid-I-Azam University, Pakistan
Outstanding 2025 Connects Student Presentation awards:
- Poster - Megan Martin – Georgia College & State University : “Assessing the Role of Deep Tilling in the Phytoremediation of Lead and Copper Contamination in Kabwe, Zambia”
- Oral - W. Mathew McCormick – Virginia Institute of Marine Science: “Beyond the Breakwaters: Contrasting the Impacts of Anthropogenic Modifications on Developed and Undeveloped Barrier Islands along the Virginia Coast, USA”