Geo-Environmental Engineering
9th Canada-France-Japan-Korea Joint Conference on
Geo-Environmental Engineering
(GEE 2009)
 

The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

June 10-12, 2009
 

ANNOUNCEMENT

May 5, 2009

During the past few weeks, the swine flu epidemic has gained international media attention. While this originated in Mexico, cases have been reported also in other countries, including Canada. This in turn has led to travel restrictions and fears about visiting Canada. In terms of the GEE2009 conference, the large Japanese delegation has said that it is very unlikely to attend, and others are on the point of cancelling.

As organizer of the conference, this puts me in a very difficult position. For example, if the conference were to proceed, I would need within the next few days to make major deposits to hold rooms, and I would also need to modify the program to reflect cancellations and probable no-shows. Faced with this situation, I have decided that it is prudent to cancel the conference. We are very sorry and express regret to all delegates who have registered. My Canadian colleagues and I had been looking forward to welcoming you to Vancouver.

In order that the work that has gone into preparing abstracts is not lost, I will be posting all the abstracts on the conference website http://gee2009.civil.ubc.ca. Hopefully the swine flu epidemic will not prove to be as serious as feared, and we will be able to resume having future GEE conferences.

Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Korea

GSGES Kyoto University, Japan

Seoul National University, Korea

University of British Columbia, Canada

Université Joseph Fourier, France