Pete Styles Keynote Speaker at International Conference

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Posted on 06 January 2012

Professor Peter Styles, was the keynote speaker at the First International Conference on Engineering Geophysics held at Al Ain in Abu Dhabi. Professor Styles gave the opening speech, entitled  "Environmental Geophysics and the 21st Century City" - the only one attended by His Highness Sheik Nahayan Mabarak al Nahayan.  

This was a comparison between the engineering problems of regeneration, contamination and physical hazard experienced by western cities and the rapidly growing new cities of the Middle, Far East, China and South America, where unforeseen geological problems, often associated with sinkholes, are common.

He also gave the keynote talk on the second day on "Geosciences Contribution to Nuclear Energy from Cradle to Grave", which was relevant as Abu Dhabi has just contracted to purchase four new nuclear power plants designed and installed by South Korea.

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