| Description | Present: Professor W R Dearman, Chairman; Mr A M Clarke; Mr C R Cratchley; Dr P G Fookes; Dr A B Hawkins; Professor J L Knill; Mr P OP F Lancaster-Jones; Dr J D Mather; Professor J K Nash
1. Minutes
The minutes [NGL/33 (78)] of the meeting on 4 October 1977 were confirmed
2. IAEG Commissions
3. Landslide zoning
4. IAEG Congress 1978
5. IAEG Council
6. IAEG Bulletin
7. Symposium on engineering geology mapping
8. Education and training
9. Ordnance Survey
The Deputy Executive Secretary advised the Subcommittee that the Royal Society had been invited to provide evidence to the Government Review Committee on the future structure and role of the Ordnance Survey [appendix to OSC/14 (78)] and that the Royal Society's Ordnance Survey Committee which was gathering and collecting evidence on behalf of the Council of the Royal Society would welcome any input from the Engineering Geology Subcommittee. Reference was made to the high cost of the 1:2500 maps and to the effect on the small user of passing on the full cost of producing the large-scale plans. Mr Clarke reported that the NCB was obliged to commission its own photogrammetric surveys of relatively level areas as the detail on the Ordnance Survey's photomaps was insufficient for monitoring ground movements due to subsidence. Dr Hawkins referred to the cost involved in acquiring bench mark and spot height data from the Ordnance Survey since these data were omitted frome (some) Ordnance Survey maps. It was noted that any written inputs to the Royal Society were required by 18 March 1978 and also that the INstitution of Geologists would be making a direct input to the Government Review Committee.
10. Forthcoming meeting
It was reported that the Fifth International Congress on Salt, which was expected to be pertinent to the IAEG Commission on the Underground Disposal of Wastes, was to be held in Hamburg at the end of May 1978.
11. Next meeting
It was agreed to hold the next meeting on 10 October 1978 at 9.30 am. |