D.M. Cruden
Dr. David Cruden, Emeritus Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada, is a recent Varnes medalist of the International Consortium on Landslides, a Legget medalist of the Canadian Geotechnical Society and a Julian Smith medalist of the Engineering Institute of Canada for his contributions to landslide studies. During the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (1990-2000), he led the collaboration of the International Geotechnical Societies that produced the Working Classification of Landslides for the International Union of Geological Sciences.
