During the first week of August 2018 Boyd Ramsey presented a series of lectures on geosynthetic drainage materials. The lecture series was presented by Global Synthetics and included Richard Brachman of Queens University on geomembrane topics and Kent von Maubeuge discussing GCLs. Events were held in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
Boyd Ramsey was one of several lecturers and participants at the IGS GeoBarriers Workshop in Munich, Germany June 6 and 7, 2018.
On April 19th, Boyd Ramsey again lectured at The Ohio State University. This was as a portion of a repeat of the Flexible Geomembrane Institute Short Course. The event was very well attended, with approximately 65 engineers, regulators, students and installers.
On February 20, 2018 Boyd Ramsey attended a GMA strategic planning session in his role as immediate past-chairman. The goal of the session
On February 5th and 6th 2018, Boyd Ramsey lectured as a part of the IGS India Chapter Educate the Educators program. The program was held on the IIT Madras campus in Chennai, India and attended by over 40 professors and instructors in the India university system.
On October 27th, Boyd Ramsey lectured at The Ohio State University. This was as a portion of the Flexible Geomembrane Institute Short Course, the Geosynthetic Materials Association was a co-sponsor.
In addition to the IGS Council meeting and other activities in Morocco, Boyd Ramsey gave a presentation on his most recent paper: Geomembrane selection: recommendations for today’s products. The conference was very successful with over 400 attendees and a fairly even split between international and local participants.
For those interested in coal ash storage regulations, there is a new article from Geosynthetics magazine. Part one is available now and is linked here: http://geosyntheticsmagazine.com/2017/08/01/part-1-the-regulation-of-ccr-in-the-united-states/
Boyd Ramsey lectured at GeoMiddleEast in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, July 15 to 19, 2017. Several sessions within GeoMiddleEast were held under the auspices of the IGS
On April 27 and 28th, 2017 an Educate the Educators event was held in Manila, Philippines at the National Engineering Center on the University of the Philippines campus. I delivered three lectures; on geosynthetic barrier performance (2) and the IGS 50-minute lecture introducing geosynthetics to an undergraduate engineering class.
