Sun. May 26, 2024 5:15 PM - 6:45 PM Poster Hall (Exhibition Hall 6, Makuhari Messe)

convener:Toru Takeshita(Adviser, Land Infrastructure Division, Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd.), Takato Takemura(Nihon University), Takehiro Ohta(Division of Earth Science, Biology and Chemistry, The Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University)

There has recently been growing demand for engineering geology, because the mitigation to disaster caused by heavy rain fall such as debris flow and landslide, exploration of renewable energy such as geothermal energy, underground carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) disposal, and environment issues such as groundwater usage and soil contamination have become new social issues. Whereas, the insufficient number of engineers who can play a pivotal role in related companies and institutes (e.g. construction consulting companies) addressing these issues has become a problem, which resulted from the insufficient geological training at universities, particularly, the one for field work. Thus, this session has been organized to overcome these issues by not only appealing the social importance of engineering geology to young people explaining the content and role played in the society, but also encouraging them to be a geological engineer. To accomplish these purposes, we will solicit presentations from a variety of disciplines including those of immediate importance as mentioned above and traditional geological survey and analyses to assess the stability of ground for the construction of infrastructures. We further request the presenters to include in their talk what kinds of occupation could be suggested to young people if they follow a career path of engineering geology.