NOAA Expands Fishing Closed Area in Gulf of Mexico
July 14, 2010

Fishery Closure Boundary as of July 13, 2010. Closure area may be updated daily as necessary.

(Credit: NOAA, click image to view high resolution photo)

On July 12, NOAA expanded the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico to include portions of the oil slick moving beyond the area’s current northwestern boundary, off the Louisiana federal-state waterline. This boundary was moved westward of Holly Beach, La., and is approximately 17 statute miles from the Louisiana-Texas border.

On July 13, NOAA opened approximately 174 square miles of the closed fishing area south of Louisiana, as this area was not impacted or projected to be impacted by oil.

This federal closure does not apply to any state waters. Closing fishing in these areas is a precautionary measure to ensure that seafood from the Gulf will remain safe for consumers.
Click here to view the entire release: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100714_closure.html

DFI 35th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations - October 12-15, 2010

 

 

 

KCICON Project
The kcICON project will reconstruct/rehabilitate about four miles of Interstate 29/35 from just north of Route 210 (Armour Road) in North Kansas City, Clay County, continuing south over the Missouri River into the northeast corner of the downtown Kansas City, Mo., freeway loop. See website

 

 

GMEC AWARD

Mohamad Hussein, P.E.  received the Florida Engineering Society’s 2010 GMEC Award in recognition of outstanding service to the geotechnical and materials engineering profession. 

Mr. Hussein has been associated with the original inventors of modern dynamic testing and analysis methods and equipment of deep foundations for almost 30 years. He is a Vice President at GRL Engineers, Inc. and manages its Florida office; he is also a Partner in Pile Dynamics, Inc. GRL Engineers is a consulting engineering firm that specializes in dynamic foundation testing and analysis. Pile Dynamics develops and produces foundation testing equipment and software.

Mr. Hussein is a registered professional engineer in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ohio; and holds the internationally recognized Foundation QA’s Certification of Expert Level in dynamic pile testing.  He has evaluated the foundations for more than 1000 projects throughout the world, many of which are notable and award winning projects.

He is a member in several deep foundations professional and trade organizations including the GMEC, ASCE (Chaired the Geo-Institute’s Deep Foundations Committee 2002 – 2009), PDCA (Chairman of the Education Committee), DFI, ADSC, and ASTM. Mohamad is an accomplished author, having published more than 80 technical papers, co-edited 7 books and co-authored the Geotechnical Engineering chapter of the widely used McGraw-Hill Handbook for Civil Engineers. Mohamad shares his professional expertise by travelling the country as an instructor of multiple courses, workshops and seminars on deep foundations.