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Biography: Dr. Edmund Medley, PE, CEG, F.ASCE
has over 30 years of unusually varied international
experience in geological and geotechnical
engineering, geophysics and mineral exploration.
Dr. Medley is licensed/registered/chartered as both
an engineer and geologist in the USA, Canada and
the United Kingdom.

Dr. Medley consults on various aspects of geological
and geotechnical engineering, including the
investigation and characterization of bimrocks; and
geotechnical/geological engineering vulnerabilities
and failures of civil engineering works. Recent
consultations include a
geological engineering
reconnaissance of damage resulting from the
October 2006 Hawaii earthquake; the retrieval of
the invaluable Forbes Collection of unique Hawaiian
cultural artifacts from lava tube burial caves; the
evaluations of the stability of high rock slopes in
chaotic rock masses; and, consultations on Hawaii
and California landslides.

Dr. Medley has contributed to over 50 publications,
many of which are available
here. Recent
contributions focused on the
seismic performance of
rock block structures and the use of 3-D stereo
photography in geoengineering.  

Dr. Medley has presented
about 270 lectures and
Short Courses
. He was the 2009 Richard H. Jahns
Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering Geology
. He
has appeared in
over a dozen TV documentaries
featuring the
failures, including investigation of the
1995 Sea Cliff Incident in San Francisco, landslides,
sinkholes and Franciscan Complex melange.

Additional details of Dr. Medley's professional
background are available at his
geopractitioner.com
website. He provides a
personal account of his
unusual career path at
edmedley.com

Dr. Medley's CV is available as a download
Dr. Edmund Medley