New Year Resolutions for Geoprofessionals
The start of a new year offers geoprofessionals the opportunity to set goals for professional
growth and excellence. These resolutions are the waypoints on the roadmap of personal and professional growth. They will help you excel as a consultant, community member, and colleague and contribute to the elevation of geoprofessional value as a whole.
Here are some suggestions as you prepare to learn, grow, and improve in 2024:
Believe that all injuries are avoidable (there is no such thing as an accident) and act accordingly.
Be involved in community service.
Share a project story with GBA as a Case History.
Practice continual teaching (mentor/train), transfer knowledge.
Share a link to an article of interest for possible inclusion in GBA’s NEWSlog.
Attend a GBA con...
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the fifth-century BC Greek researcher and storyteller, is generally recognized as the world’s first historian. In his book The Histories, as translated by A.D. Godley in 1924, he supposedly wrote,
GBA CASE HISTORY # 45
An environmental consultant was retained to perform a Phase II ESA. When laboratory tests indicated unacceptable levels of a contaminant, the......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 46
Four years after an environmental consultant conducted a Phase II ESA for the purchaser of a site, the client sued the consultant over an asbestos......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 47
A Member Firm was retained to perform a subsurface geotechnical exploration. During exploration, one of the firm's staff members noticed a gasoline......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 48
A Member Firm failed to note that client-revised general conditions eliminated the limitation of liability provision. Later, during the project, the......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 49
After a contractor used contaminated slag for an access road, the Member Firm used personal diplomacy to require the slag provider (a steel mill) to......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 50
An environmental consultant performed a RI/FS properly, but failed to follow all prescribed documentation requirements. To avoid litigation, the firm......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 51
Case History No. 51 . Although the Member Firm's CEO got personally involved and "saved the day," serious problems arose. The firm had to pay $180,000 to extricate itself......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 52
Case History No. 52 . The Member Firm was accused of an error it did not make, but its survey crew inadvertently said the firm was at fault. The survey crew chief's remark......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 53
Case History No. 53 . A GBA member performing bridge design ran afoul of changed conditions in a small area, causing failure of post-tensioning anchors. Nonbinding ADR......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 54
Case History No. 54 . A Member Firm had to spend well over one million uninsured dollars to extricate itself from a stadium rebuilding project. Problems arose when its......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 55
Case History No. 55 . The GBA member, an environmental consultant, performed quickly, at the client's request, to facilitate a sale. As predicted, more contamination was......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 56
Case History No. 56 .After a field representative failed to note that organic material had been buried instead of taken off site, the Member Firm that employed him submitted a form noting that grading...
GBA CASE HISTORY # 57
Case History No. 57 from Derailed By Dispute. A Member Firm environmental consultant agreed to indemnify landowners whose wells were to be tested, because EPA said it would indemnify the......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 57
Case History No. 57 from Derailed By Dispute. A Member Firm environmental consultant agreed to indemnify landowners whose wells were to be tested, because EPA said it would indemnify the......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 58
Case History No. 58 Precautions that were needed to help ensure success of an innovative approach were explained orally to a client, but not documented. The project failed. Despite overwhelming evide...