Even in hard times
— perhaps especially then —
we are given the chance to perceive beauty
and reach the fullness of existence
— if we look deeply into the heart of people
and the heart of things,
the heart of soil and the heart of and rock ))
As William Blake mentions in the start of his
Auguries of Innocence:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
…
“ISRM Suggested Methods for determining the tensile strength and elastic constants of rocks by the direct tension test” and “ISRM Suggested Method for Determining the Rate-Dependent Shear Strength and Mode II Fracture Toughness of Rock Materials Using the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar” have been published in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.
All the ISRM Suggested Methods are listed on ISRM website,
and available to the ISRM members:
https://isrm.net/page/show/177
https://www.geoengineer.org/news/call-for-papers-for-special-issue-on-geo-hazards-lessons-from-the-ground
Published issues: https://www.geocasehistoriesjournal.org/issues
Croatian Geological Society just made Prof. Mladen Garašić, PhD, its honorary member
(https://www.geologija.hr/dodjela-priznanja-pocasni-clan-hrvatskog-geoloskog-drustva-prof-dr-sc-mladenu-garasicu/),
after it was chosen to be Vice President of Operation of the Union Internationale de Spéléologie, UIS-a in July,
(https://uis-speleo.org/index.php/the-uis-bureau-for-2022-2025/)
in his 4th mandate in the UIS Bureau,
where he was secretary from 2013 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2022,
and treasurer from 20222 to 2025;
he was also Vice President of the Fédération Spéléologique Européenne (FSE) – from 2015 to 2019.
We are grateful to Prof. Mladen Garašić also for his work on investigation and protection of caves and karst,
and on his activities towards UNESCO,
one of the results being 13 September becoming
International Day of Caves and Karst.
https://www.caveskarstday.org/
