The innaugural Shlemon Specialty Conference in Engineering Geology will be held in El Paso, Texas, on April 1, 2, and 3, 2004. Sponsored by the Association of Engineering Geologists and the Engineering Geology Foundation, and made possible by a generous contribution from Dr. Roy Shlemon, these conferences will provide a forum for engineering geologists, geotechnical engineers, and related professionals to advance the state of their science through congenial and highly focussed technical symposia.

The El Paso conference will consist of keynote oral presentations by selected experts, volunteered oral/poster presentations by conference attendees, a field trip, and a 1/2 day wrap up session to help define future research directions and data needs.

Please join us for what promises to be the first of many exciting and important symposia.

Symposium Discussion Topics

• Processes Leading to Fissure Formation
• Fissure Classification and Evolution
• Prediction of Fissure Development and Growth
• Effects of Fissures on the Built Environment
• Mitigation of Fissures for Engineered Structures

Conference Details

The symposium will be based in the historic El Camino Real Hotel in downtown El Paso, Texas. El Paso is easily accessible by air or automobile, and the El Camino Real offers excellent conference facilities. The symposium registration fee of $200 includes a day of technical sessions, a full day field trip to examine and discuss two sets of enigmatic earth fissures near Fort Hancock and Red Light Draw, a half-day wrap-up session, and several meals. A special hotel room rate of $90 per night has also been arranged. See the symposium program for details. The El Paso area offers many amenities and the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez is a short walk across the International Bridge.

Registration Form

Click here to download a conference brochure and registration form (1.3 Mb pdf file).

Questions?

Fissure Movies

Click on the links below to view some movies of fissures to be visited on the conference field trip (movies require Windows Media Player).

• Red Light Draw area (718 kb)
• Younger Red Light Draw fissures (2.3 Mb)
• Older Red Light Draw fissures (731 kb)
• Fort Hancock area (1.1 Mb)
• Fort Hancock fissure (1.6 Mb)