The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
The lecture is based on the paper that won the 2024 BGA Medal Award.
This event is planned as an in-person event, and will also be webcast live.
Advance booking is required for both in-person attendance and on-line viewing.
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The British Geotechnical Association
12.05.2026
18:00 - 19:30
Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA
Advance booking is required for both in-person attendance and on-line viewing. A booking link will be available nearer the event
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Tea and Coffee will be available from 17:30
This lecture presents the paper that won the 2024 BGA Medal Award ‘High-resolution Geophysical Monitoring of Moisture Accumulation Preceding Slope Movement-a Path to Improved Early Warning’. It details the use of near-real-time resistivity and strain measurements to detect early onset of landslide precursors at an active landslide in North Yorkshire.
The 2024 BGA Medal was awarded to Jim Whiteley leading a team of 16 authors including Arnaud Watlet, Paul Wilkinson, Adrian White, Sebastian Uhlemann, Russell Swift, Susanne Ouellet, Chris Minto, Philip Meldrum, Lee Jones, David Gunn, Alastair Godfrey, Ben Dashwood, Roger Crickmore, Paul Clarkson, James Boyd, and Jonathan Chambers, for their paper “High-resolution geophysical monitoring of moisture accumulation preceding slope movement—a path to improved early warning” published in Environmental Research Letters in 2024.
The paper can be accessed online HERE.
Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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