[There is also a ‘column’ by John Dunnicliff at the beginning of each episode, except

28 and 33. The column introduces the article(s) in that episode and includes other
topical content]

GIN Date Pages Author(s) Title

Episode

28 September 30-35 John Dunnicliff Recommendations for

2001 Alan Powderham Procurement of Geotechnical
Instrumentation and Field
Instrumentation Services
33 December 38-42 P. Erik Mikkelsen Cement-Bentonite Grout
2002 Backfill for Borehole
Instruments
34 March 47-50 Andrew M. Ridley Recent Developments in the
2003 Measurement of Pore Water
Pressure and Suction
50-53 Thomas Thomann Are Those Pore Pressure
Aaron Goldberg Readings Correct?
Richard
Napolitano
53-58 Daniel Naterop Some Recently Developed
Instrumentation Technologies
35 June 2003 41-51 Barrie Sellers Discussions of “Measurement
John Dunnicliff of Pore Water Pressures in
P. Erik Mikkelsen Embankment Dams”, by Arthur
Martin Beth D.M. Penman.
Also Author’s Reply
51-59 Charles H. Monitoring Deformation of
Dowding Rock and Soil with TDR
Matthieu L. Sensor Cables
Dussud
William F. Kane
Kevin M.
O’Connor
36 September 43 John Dunnicliff ‘Column’ only, no
2003 articles
37 December 29-30 Ralph B. Peck The Power of
2003 Observation
30-31 Youssef Hashash Temperature Correction
Camilo Marulanda and Strut Loads
Interpretation in Central
Artery Excavations
32-37 A. Tyson Kaempffer Update on Bentonite
Chips and Pellets for
Sealing Piezometers in
Boreholes
38 March 31-34 Jostein Aasen A New Geotextile Strain
2004 Robert D. Holtz Gage
39 June 2004 29-31 W. Allen Marr Test Your Knowledge of
Barry Christopher Geotechnical
Instrumentation
40 September 21-27 Michael Long Some Experiences in
2004 Chris Menkiti Measuring Pore Water
Ben Follett Pressure in Dublin
Glacial Till
27-28 John Dunnicliff Discussion of “Some
Experiences in Measuring
Pore Water Pressure in
Dublin Glacial Till” by
Long, Menkiti, Follett
28- 31 Beto Ortigao Rio-Watch: the Rio de
Maria G. Justi Janeiro Landslide Alarm
System
41 December 33-35 R.K.S. Chan Landslip Warning System
2004 W.K. Pun in Hong Kong
35-40 Robert Farrell Piezometer Design and
Pedro de Alba Installation for
Jean Benoît Earthquake Pore Water
Pressure Measurement
42 March 26-27 Michael Long Authors’ Closure, “Some
2005 Chris Menkiti Experiences in Measuring
Ben Follett Pore Water Pressure in
Dublin Glacial Till”
43 June 2005 30-32 Barrie Sellers The Truth About
Accuracy
32-35 John Dunnicliff Reminiscences of a
Director of
Instrumentation
Courses
35-36 Gord McKenna Erroneous Readings
from a Vibrating Wire
Piezometer With a
Broken Signal Wire
37 Simon Cornwallace Discussions of
Barrie Sellers “Erroneous Readings
from a Vibrating Wire
Piezometer With a
Broken Signal Wire”
by McKenna
44 September 27-31 Matthew Spriggs The Instrumentation
2005 Neil Dixon of Landslides Using
Acoustic Emission
32 Gord McKenna Protecting Instruments
from Damage

45 December 44-47 David R. Rutledge Using the Global

2005 Steven Z. Meyerholtz Positioning System
(GPS) to Monitor the
Performance of Dams
48-51 Claus Ludwig Wireless Tiltmeters
Etienne Constable Monitor Stability
during Trench
Excavation for Reno
Transportation Rail
Access Corridor
51-55 Lyne Daigle Temperature Influence
on Earth Pressure Cell
Readings
46 March 32-36 Ali Asghar Mirghasemi Karkheh Dam
2006 Instrumentation
System – Some
Experiences
36-40 Ton Peters Comparing Surface
Settlement Systems
for On-Line
Monitoring
41-43 Elmo DiBiago Where Has All the
Kaare Høeg Judgment Come
From?
44-45 John Dunnicliff Articles in
Geotechnical News.
March 2003 – March
2006
47 June 2006 34-43 Donald Babbitt Discussions of
Elmo DiBiagio “Karkheh Dam
Louis Marcil Instrumentation
Erik Mikkelsen System – Some
Arthur Penman Experiences” by
Barrie Sellers Mirghesemi. Also
John Dunnicliff Author’s reply
43-45 Bengt Fellenius Piled Foundation
Design – Clarification
of a Confusion
46-47 Gord McKenna Rules of Thumb for
Geotechnical
Instrumentation Costs
48-50 Barrie Sellers Electrical Cables for
Geotechnical
Instrumentation
Applications
48 September 30-33 Gary Holzhausen Responses to
2006 Louis Marcil ‘Umbrella’ Questions
Rick Monroe about Manufacturers
Arthur Penman and Users Working
Barrie Sellers Together
Robert Taylor
33-37 Chris Rasmussen Experiences Gained
from the Installation
of Cable-free Sensors
for Geotechnical and
Structural Monitoring
37-38 Verne McGuffey Interpreting
Unexpected
Instrument Data
49 December 35-42 Helmut Bock Discussion of
2006 “Karkheh Dam
Instrumentation
System – Some
Experiences” by
Mirghesemi. Also
Author’s reply
42-45 David Cook Robotic Total Stations
and Remote Data
Capture: Challenges in
Construction
46-49 Nicole Metje Smart Rod Tunnel
David Chapman Monitoring System
Chris Rogers
Philip Henderson
Martin Beth
50 March 30-33 Villy Kontogianni Monitoring with
2007 Stefi Kornarou Electronic Total
Stathis Stiros Stations: Performance
and Accuracy of
Prismatic and Non-
Prismatic Reflectors
33-38 Martin Beth Discussions of
Brian Dorwart “Robotic Total
Richard Flanagan Stations and Remote
Trevor Greening Data Capture:
Douglas Roy and Challenges in
Neils Jensen Construction” by
David Rutledge Cook. Also Author’s
Reply
51 June 2007 30 ‘Column’ only, no articles
52 September 24, 25 Gord McKenna GIN and John. Celebrating
2007 50 Issues of GIN
27-31 Daniele Inaudi Overview of Fiber Optic
Branko Glisic Sensing Technologies for
Geotechnical Instrumentation
and Monitoring
31-35 Daniele Inaudi Distributed Fiber Optic
Branko Glisic Sensors: Novel Tools for the
Monitoring of Large
Structures
53 December 32-36 J. F. Baker Choice of a Strain Gauge
2007 36-38 W. Allen Marr The Seventh International
Symposium on Field
Measurements in
Geomechanics (FMGM-
2007), Wrap-up
39 Elmo DiBiagio The FMGM Web Site:
www.fmgm.no. An Update
54 March 32,33 Barrie Sellers MEMS Basics
2008 Robert Taylor
33-36 Thomas Sheahan Performance Testing of
David Mazzei MEMS-based Tilt Sensors
John McRae
36-40 Tarek Abdoun A New Wireless MEMS-
Victoria Bennett based System for Real-time
Deformation Monitoring
41-44 Matthew Barendse Field Evaluation of a MEMS-
based Real-time Deformation
Monitoring System
55 June 2008 30-37 Ivan Contreras The Use of the Fully-grouted
Aaron Grosser Method for Piezometer
Richard Ver Strate Installation. Parts 1 and 2
38-40 John Dunnicliff Discussion of “The Use of the
Fully-grouted Method for
Piezometer Installation”.
Also Authors’ Reply
40-44 Kevin O’Connor Geotechnical Alarms Systems
Based on TDR Technology
56 September 28-30 Colin Hope Manual Total Station
2008 Marcelo Chaqui Monitoring
30-33 W. Allen Marr Monitoring Deformations
with Automated Total
Stations
33-36 Lars Krangnes Monitoring Norway’s Largest
Potential Rockslide
57 December 23-26 Peter Bennett Distributed Optical Fibre
2008 Strain Measurements in Civil
Engineering
26,27 Joel Volterra Monitoring by Manual and/or
Automated Optical Survey
28-30 Erik Mikkelsen Some Views on a Recent
John Dunnicliff Addition to our
Instrumentation Tool Box- the
ShapeAccelArray (SAA)
58 March 35-37 Youssef Hashash Tracking of Excavation
2009 Camilo Quinones- Activities by Laser Scanning
Rozo and Large Image Reasoning-
David Groholski based Techniques
38-40 Chih-Ping Lin TDR as a Geo-Nerve: a Slope
Monitoring System Example
59 June 2009 33-34 Daniel S. Webber In Support of the Fully-
grouted Method for
Piezometer Installation
34-37 Nick Osborne Factors Influencing the
G. H. Tan Performance of Strain Gauge
Monitoring Systems
60 September 31-34 Emily B. Dail Instrumentation and
2009 Joel L. Volterra Monitoring Trends in New
York City and Beyond
35 John Dunnicliff Review of “Uncertainty and
Ground Conditions – a Risk
Management Approach” by
Martin van Staveren
61 December 34-36 W. Allen Marr Reasons for Monitoring
2009 Performance with
Geotechnical Instrumentation
62 March 24-26 Ian Froggatt Remote Monitoring of Loads
2010 Maurice O’Neill in Rock Anchors – Process
Steven Turner and Benefits
63 September 20-23 Craig Johnson Retrospective Instrumentation
1010 of a Concrete Dam
24-27 Carlos Rodrigues Miniature Fiber-Optic MOMS
Daniele Inaudi Piezometer
Francois Juneau
Éric Pinet
64 December 25-28 David Cook Fundamentals of
2010 Instrumentation Geotechnical
Database Management –
Things to Consider
29-32 Alexander M. Advanced Geotechnical
Puzrin Applications of Distributed
Michael Iten Fiber-Optic Sensing
Dominik Hayswirth
65 March 29-33 Roberto Acerbis Recommendations for
2011 Harry Asche Converting Strain Measured
Guido Barbieri in Concrete to Stress
Tiziano Collotta
34 Roger Chandler The Web of Dissemination
of Monitoring Data
35 Angus Maxwell INSITE Web Based Data
Management Software
36 Alex Neuwirt Multilogger Suite Web-
based Data Management
37 Rob Nyren iSiteCentral Web-based
Data Management Software
38 Andres Thorarinsson Web-based Data
Management Software
39 Hai-Tien Yu ARGUS Web-based Data
Management Software
40 Rob Taylor GeoViewer™ Web-based
Data Management Software
66 June 2011 23-25 John Dunnicliff Who Should be Responsible
for Monitoring and
Instrumentation During
Construction?
25-28 Paolo Mazzanti Displacement Monitoring by
Terrestrial SAR
Interferometry for
Geotechnical Purposes
29 Martin Beth Geoscope Web-based Data
Management Software
30 Daniele Inaudi SHMLive Web-based Data
Management Software
31 Rick Monroe Atlas Web-Based Data
Management Software for
Instrumentation
67 September 20 Brian Tigani Interchangeability of MEMS
2011 Rolando Rongo Digital Inclinometer Probes
21 Damien Tamagnan Monitoring of Surface
Martin Beth Deformation with Robotic
Total Stations Using
Reflectorless Measurements
68 December 24-26 Ton Peters Report on the Symposium
2011 on Field Measurements in
GeoMechanics (FMGM
2011)
Berlin, Germany, 12-15
September 2011
26-29 Garrett Bayrd Evaluating Practices for
Installation of Vibrating
Wire Piezometers
30-33 Bill Shefchik Salt Cavern Monitoring
Reynold Tomes System for Early Warning of
Riccardo Belli Sinkhole Formation
34 John Dunnicliff Book Review – Monitoring
Underground Construction.
A Practical Guide. British
British Tunnelling Society.
69 March 23-25 Mike Devriendt Trigger levels for
2012 displacement monitoring
26 John Dunnicliff Remote monitoring of
deformation. Introduction
27 Matthew J. Lato Remote monitoring of
deformation using
Terrestrial Laser Scanning
(TLS or Terrestrial LiDAR)
28 Paolo Mazzanti Remote monitoring of
deformation using
Terrestrial SAR
Interferometry (TInSAR,
GBInSAR)
29 Rob Nyren, Ryan Remote monitoring of
Drefus, Sean Johnson deformation using Robotic
Total Stations (RTS)
30 Damien Tamagnan, Remote monitoring of
Martin Beth surface deformation with
Robotic Total Stations using
reflectorless measurements
(RRTS)
70 June 2012 20-25 Ivan A. Contreras, Update of the fully-grouted
Aaron T. Grosser, method for piezometer
Richard H. Ver installation
Strate
26 Francesca Bozzano, Remote monitoring of
Alfredo Rocca deformation using Satellite
SAR Interferometry
27 Raul Fuentes Remote monitoring of
Stuart Robson deformation using Digital
Photogrammetry
28 Jason Bond Remote monitoring of
Rob Nyren deformations using
Differential Global
Positioning System (D-GPS)
29 John Dunnicliff Book Review – ICE Manual
of Geotechnical Engineering
71 September 20 ‘Column’ only, no articles
2012
72 December 24-29 Paolo Mazzanti Remote monitoring of
2012 deformation. An overview
of the seven methods
described in previous GINs
29-32 M.W. Grabinsky Field monitoring for
B.D. Thompson improved mine backfill
W.F. Bawden systems
73 March 24-26 Marcelo Chuaqui Field monitoring challenges.
2013 Wing Lam Episode 1
Unforeseen piling details
and damage to inclinometer
casing
74 June 2013 26-27 Christopher J. Hill USSD presents workshop on
Pierre Choquet state-of-the-art monitoring
technologies
28-30 Marcelo Chuaqui Field monitoring challenges,
Wing Lam Episode 2
Unforeseen movements
(depth and magnitude)
30-34 John Dunnicliff Some on-line sources of
information about
geotechnical instrumentation
75 September 27-30 Margaret M. Darrow Automated MEMS-based
2013 In-place Inclinometers
30-32 Anonymous Lessons learned from
unexpected events in the
field
76 December 29-33 Jason DeJong, A reusable instrumented test
2013 Aravinthan pile for improved pile design
Thurairajah, Mason
Ghafghazi
33-34 Storer J. Boone Discussion of: “Field
monitoring challenges,
Episode 2 Unforeseen
movements (depth and
magnitude)
77 March 32-35 Chris Fagen, The Laser-Distometer: A
2014 Charlie Daugherty newer, better way to
measure tunnel deformations
78 June 2014 23-26 Derrick Dasenbrock Performance observations of
MEMS ShapeAccelArray
(SAA) deformation sensors
27-28 Robert Bachus Advances in geotechnical
data management and
visualization
79 September 22-25 Glenn Tofani Resolving unexpected
2014 monitoring results – Two
case histories
80 December 35-38 Simon Maddison The fundamentals of
2014 wireless monitoring –
Things to consider
38-41 Glenn Tofani Widespread misconceptions
involving liquid or vapor
flow in geotechnical
monitoring applications
81 March 28-34 Francesca Bozzano Lesson learned from two
2015 case histories about the
planning of integrated
monitoring systems
34-36 Raymond The use of fully-grouted
D’Hollander, piezometers in a streambed
Paul Roth, Shane
Blauvelt
James O’Loughlin
82 June 2015 17-21 Marc Smith Performance of
ShapeAccelArray (SAA) for
settlement monitoring of a
large rockfill dam
21-22 Adam Dulmage and Discussion of “The
Matt Trenwith fundamentals of wireless
monitoring – things to
consider” by Simon
Maddison. Geotechnical
News, Vol. 32, Number 4,
December 2014
23 Simon Maddison Response/Closure
83 Sept 19-22 David K. Cook and Lessons learned during
2015 Thijs Claus removal of instrumentation
after 13 years of monitoring
at a large urban tunneling
project
84 December 30-33 Douglas Roy and Qualifications of the robotic
2015 Jonathan Stuhl total station construction
monitoring professional

33-34 Donald Shields Giving credit where credit is

due
35-37 John Dunnicliff General role of
instrumentation, and
summaries of instruments
that can be considered for
helping to provide answers
to possible geotechnical
questions, Part 1

85 March 25-27 Bob Turnbull The fundamentals of

2016 vibration monitoring –
things to consider
27-31 Martin Beth & Joel Discussions of
Volterra “Qualifications of the
robotic total station
construction monitoring
professional”

31-32 Authors’ reply

Douglas Roy &
Jonathan Stuhl
32-34 John Dunnicliff General role of
instrumentation, and
summaries of instruments
that can be considered for
helping to provide answers
to possible geotechnical
questions. Part 2

34-35 Andrew Ridley Report on 9th Symposium on

Field Measurements in
Geomechanics

35-36 Andrew Ridley The future of FMGM

86 June 2016 20-22 Martin Beth Eight common sense rules
for successful monitoring

23-26 Vincent Le Borgne Lessons learned in

vibration monitoring

27-31 John Dunnicliff General role of

instrumentation, and
summaries of instruments
that can be considered for
helping to provide answers
to possible geotechnical
questions. Part 3
87 September 18-19 John Dunnicliff General role of
2016 instrumentation, and
summaries of instruments
that can be considered for
helping to provide answers
to possible geotechnical
questions. Part 4.
88 December 20-22 John Dunnicliff Introduction
2016

22-25 Alister Smith, Neil An acoustic emission slope

Dixon, Daniela displacement rate sensor:
Codeglia, Comparisons with
Gary Fowmes established instrumentation
25-29 Vincent Le Borgne Monitoring a heritage
building restoration project
with geotechnical
instrumentation
29-30 John Dunnicliff General role of
instrumentation, and
summaries of instruments
that can be considered for
helping to provide answers
to possible geotechnical
questions. Part 5.
89 March 35 John Dunnicliff Introduction
2017

36-38 Colin Hope & Manual reflectorless total

Stephen Dawe station monitoring (MRTS)

June 2017 No Articles

90 September 20 John Dunnicliff Introduction
2017

21-23 Isabella Ramaccia and System Checks/Validations

David Cook A practical approach for
displacement monitoring
23-27 Zhangwei Ning and A case study of Global
Marc Fish Navigation Satellite
System (GNSS) in
landslide ground
movement monitoring
December No articles
2017

91 March 36 John Dunnicliff Introduction

2018

37-38 Francois Duhaime, Fully grouted piezometers

Vahid Marefat, in a soft Champlain clay
Robert P. Chapuis, deposit. Update on the
Vincent Le Borgne article in the Groundwater
section of September 2017
issue of Geotechnical
News
38-40 Garrett Bayrd Extract/Transform/Load
(ETL) processes for
instrumentation data
transfer
92 June 2018 25 John Dunnicliff Introduction

25 John Dunnicliff Some remarks on the

importance of human
factors in geotechnical and
structural monitoring
programs
27 David Richardson, Discussions by
Durham Geo Slope manufacturers of
Indicator instruments
Tony Simmonds,
Geokon Inc.
Martin Clegg,
Geosense Ltd.
Rene DeBlois, Roctest
Ltd.
Bruce Ripley, RST
Instruments Ltd
Giovanni Caloni &
Daniel Naterop,
SISGEO SRT

29 John Dunnicliff Closure