Dear Colleagues and PYRN members

As the co-chair of the IPA-PEWG I'm looking for help on permafrost engineering test sections and guidelines.


For the activities of our Permafrost Engineering Working Group (PEWG)
of the IPA during the TICOP, Richard Fortier and I would like to submit a
multi-authored extended abstract up to 2 pages long on an inventory of
engineering test sections in a permafrost environment. Any of you can
co-author this abstract as long as you provide us information on any
test sections or other test construction
in permafrost that you are in charge of or aware of. Moreover, if you
want to take the leadership on the writing of this abstract, you can be
the first author. If you know somebody else in charge of a test section,
could you please provide us with email address or contact them
directly?

In addition, we are planning on writing another
extended abstract on guidelines on permafrost engineering. We already
have a list of guidelines but, if you are aware of any guideline, could
you please provide us with references. If you are interested in
participating as co-authors for this abstract please also let us know.

The deadline for submitting an abstract is on February 1st 2012.


Finally we are planning to arrange a breakout session during the TICOP
on these two subjects (engineering test sections in a permafrost
environment and guidelines on permafrost engineering).

Are you planning to attend to the TICOP?

Thank you very much for your collaboration! We look forward to hearing from you. Happy new year!