One of the lights of geosynthetics engineering and standards development, Tim Bauters, has passed away. He was just 47.
Bauters, who most recently served as Director of Engineering at California-based Slurry Waste Solutions, was snowboarding alone in an area of Mt. Hood, Oregon. When he did not return home from the weekend outing, his family contacted the sheriff’s office in that area and a search was conducted. His body was found late on Monday.
Tim Bauters was born in Belgium and did his undergraduate and master’s studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven before coming to the United States to earn a PhD in Soil and Water Engineering at Cornell University. Following a year of post-doc research, he was hired by Aigen Zhao, then at Tenax Corporation, which embedded Tim with geosynthetics in a way that heavily influenced the rest of his career. Bauters took on roles in design engineering and quality control and Tenax.
He eventually left for a position with Golder Associates in California, where he spent a decade consulting on solid waste, hazardous waste, environmental engineering, and affiliated issues.
In 2017, he transitioned to his role with Slurry Waste Solutions while also establishing a individual practice with an engineering education focus.
In the professional sphere, he was energetic and humored. He delivered difficult engineering points in conference sessions and especially in ASTM standardization meetings in a manner that encouraged collegial discussion and tamped down competitive fires. His demeanor made him a natural moderator. He often served as such in conference technical sessions, taught short courses, and took up leadership of technical guidance work with ASTM Committee D35. On multiple occasions he was honored by D35, including with the Award of Recognition (2008, 2014, and 2018) and Award of Appreciation (2011).
Geosynthetica extends its condolences to the family of Tim Bauters. He leaves behind a wife, two young children, and a large community of family, friends, and colleagues around the world who are grateful for the humanity and happiness he brought to everyday interactions.
Thank you, Aigen Zhao, for sharing the news of Tim’s passing with us.
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Tim Bauters dies while snowboarding
Geosynthetics engineer Tim Bauters passed away while snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort in Oregon. The cause of death was not immediately known. Bauters was 47.
Bauters served as director of engineering at Slurry Waste Solutions in California. After earning his PhD in soil and water engineering at Cornell University, the Belgium native began work at Tenax Corporation, where he was introduced to geosynthetics, a topic that would occupy the rest of his career.
An avid snowboarder, Bauters had been to Mt. Hood Meadows several times before. When he did not return to California as planned, his family initiated a search with the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators found his rental car and was able to narrow the search area based on scans of his lift ticket. Staff at the resort found his body.
Bauters is survived by his wife and two young children.
geosyntheticsmagazine.com
February 21st, 2020 / By: IFAI /
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A California man who had been missing for days was found dead Monday at Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort, officials said.
The man, identified as 47-year-old Tim Bauters of Sunnyvale, was the second person to die in the resort’s Heather Canyon area over the weekend.
The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Bauters’ family Monday afternoon saying he had been expected to return home but never showed up. Bauters had been in Oregon on a work trip, and the last known communication he had with family was Friday, officials said, when he said he was at the resort.
Bauters was believed to be snowboarding alone, but he was in good shape and had been to Mt. Hood Meadows multiple times, officials said.
Security at the resort confirmed his rental car was still in the parking lot, and the sheriff’s office initiated a search from the air while ski patrollers narrowed the search area based on the last lift he rode.
About 6:15 p.m. Monday, staff at the resort reported they had found his body in the Heather Canyon area.
“He was an avid outdoorsman,” said Bauters’ colleague, Christopher Packal. He said Bauters, a physical engineer with Slurry Waste Solutions, had been at the company’s Hillsboro facility, and because of the long weekend, decided to take Friday off to do some snowboarding.
“He traveled a lot and always tried to work in something outdoors,” Packal said.
Packal said Bauters was supposed to work on Saturday, but when the usually communicative man didn’t show up or call, friends and family knew something was amiss.
Bauters was a Belgium native, Packal said, who did his Ph.D. at Cornell and then moved to the west coast a few years ago. He had a wife and two young kids.
“It’s very shocking,” Packal said. “You can’t be around Tim without knowing Tim. He was loud, lots of laughter — he’s irreplaceable.”
Heather Canyon, located on the east side of the resort, is home to some of Meadows’ most rugged terrain, which is sought after by advanced skiers and snowboarders.
It’s home to steep slopes, wide-open bowls and tight trees and gullies that can be accessed through gates that are open or closed, depending on daily conditions. All areas of Heather, as the canyon is known, are considered “extremely difficult” double black diamond terrain.
Meadows’ trail map warns that Heather and two other areas of the resort — Clark Canyon and Private Reserve — aren’t patrolled on a regular basis and have avalanche danger at all times. Skiers in in those areas should also be aware of waterfalls, creek holes and unmarked obstacles in those areas, the map warns.
It’s unclear exactly where in the canyon the snowboarders died, and officials from the resort did not immediately respond to questions about conditions in the area before Bauters went missing. Sean Weagle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said conditions were relatively benign, at least by mountain standards, on both days. A couple of inches of snow fell on both Friday and Sunday mornings, and temperatures were in the 20s with winds around 20 mph. There was some cloud cover on both Friday and Sunday, Weagle said, which could have affected visibility.
-- Kale Williams
[email protected]
Bauters, who most recently served as Director of Engineering at California-based Slurry Waste Solutions, was snowboarding alone in an area of Mt. Hood, Oregon. When he did not return home from the weekend outing, his family contacted the sheriff’s office in that area and a search was conducted. His body was found late on Monday.
Tim Bauters was born in Belgium and did his undergraduate and master’s studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven before coming to the United States to earn a PhD in Soil and Water Engineering at Cornell University. Following a year of post-doc research, he was hired by Aigen Zhao, then at Tenax Corporation, which embedded Tim with geosynthetics in a way that heavily influenced the rest of his career. Bauters took on roles in design engineering and quality control and Tenax.
He eventually left for a position with Golder Associates in California, where he spent a decade consulting on solid waste, hazardous waste, environmental engineering, and affiliated issues.
In 2017, he transitioned to his role with Slurry Waste Solutions while also establishing a individual practice with an engineering education focus.
In the professional sphere, he was energetic and humored. He delivered difficult engineering points in conference sessions and especially in ASTM standardization meetings in a manner that encouraged collegial discussion and tamped down competitive fires. His demeanor made him a natural moderator. He often served as such in conference technical sessions, taught short courses, and took up leadership of technical guidance work with ASTM Committee D35. On multiple occasions he was honored by D35, including with the Award of Recognition (2008, 2014, and 2018) and Award of Appreciation (2011).
Geosynthetica extends its condolences to the family of Tim Bauters. He leaves behind a wife, two young children, and a large community of family, friends, and colleagues around the world who are grateful for the humanity and happiness he brought to everyday interactions.
Thank you, Aigen Zhao, for sharing the news of Tim’s passing with us.
=====
Tim Bauters dies while snowboarding
Geosynthetics engineer Tim Bauters passed away while snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort in Oregon. The cause of death was not immediately known. Bauters was 47.
Bauters served as director of engineering at Slurry Waste Solutions in California. After earning his PhD in soil and water engineering at Cornell University, the Belgium native began work at Tenax Corporation, where he was introduced to geosynthetics, a topic that would occupy the rest of his career.
An avid snowboarder, Bauters had been to Mt. Hood Meadows several times before. When he did not return to California as planned, his family initiated a search with the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators found his rental car and was able to narrow the search area based on scans of his lift ticket. Staff at the resort found his body.
Bauters is survived by his wife and two young children.
geosyntheticsmagazine.com
February 21st, 2020 / By: IFAI /
=====
A California man who had been missing for days was found dead Monday at Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort, officials said.
The man, identified as 47-year-old Tim Bauters of Sunnyvale, was the second person to die in the resort’s Heather Canyon area over the weekend.
The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Bauters’ family Monday afternoon saying he had been expected to return home but never showed up. Bauters had been in Oregon on a work trip, and the last known communication he had with family was Friday, officials said, when he said he was at the resort.
Bauters was believed to be snowboarding alone, but he was in good shape and had been to Mt. Hood Meadows multiple times, officials said.
Security at the resort confirmed his rental car was still in the parking lot, and the sheriff’s office initiated a search from the air while ski patrollers narrowed the search area based on the last lift he rode.
About 6:15 p.m. Monday, staff at the resort reported they had found his body in the Heather Canyon area.
“He was an avid outdoorsman,” said Bauters’ colleague, Christopher Packal. He said Bauters, a physical engineer with Slurry Waste Solutions, had been at the company’s Hillsboro facility, and because of the long weekend, decided to take Friday off to do some snowboarding.
“He traveled a lot and always tried to work in something outdoors,” Packal said.
Packal said Bauters was supposed to work on Saturday, but when the usually communicative man didn’t show up or call, friends and family knew something was amiss.
Bauters was a Belgium native, Packal said, who did his Ph.D. at Cornell and then moved to the west coast a few years ago. He had a wife and two young kids.
“It’s very shocking,” Packal said. “You can’t be around Tim without knowing Tim. He was loud, lots of laughter — he’s irreplaceable.”
Heather Canyon, located on the east side of the resort, is home to some of Meadows’ most rugged terrain, which is sought after by advanced skiers and snowboarders.
It’s home to steep slopes, wide-open bowls and tight trees and gullies that can be accessed through gates that are open or closed, depending on daily conditions. All areas of Heather, as the canyon is known, are considered “extremely difficult” double black diamond terrain.
Meadows’ trail map warns that Heather and two other areas of the resort — Clark Canyon and Private Reserve — aren’t patrolled on a regular basis and have avalanche danger at all times. Skiers in in those areas should also be aware of waterfalls, creek holes and unmarked obstacles in those areas, the map warns.
It’s unclear exactly where in the canyon the snowboarders died, and officials from the resort did not immediately respond to questions about conditions in the area before Bauters went missing. Sean Weagle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said conditions were relatively benign, at least by mountain standards, on both days. A couple of inches of snow fell on both Friday and Sunday mornings, and temperatures were in the 20s with winds around 20 mph. There was some cloud cover on both Friday and Sunday, Weagle said, which could have affected visibility.
-- Kale Williams
[email protected]
One of the lights of geosynthetics engineering and standards development, Tim Bauters, has passed away. He was just 47.
Bauters, who most recently served as Director of Engineering at California-based Slurry Waste Solutions, was snowboarding alone in an area of Mt. Hood, Oregon. When he did not return home from the weekend outing, his family contacted the sheriff’s office in that area and a search was conducted. His body was found late on Monday.
Tim Bauters was born in Belgium and did his undergraduate and master’s studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven before coming to the United States to earn a PhD in Soil and Water Engineering at Cornell University. Following a year of post-doc research, he was hired by Aigen Zhao, then at Tenax Corporation, which embedded Tim with geosynthetics in a way that heavily influenced the rest of his career. Bauters took on roles in design engineering and quality control and Tenax.
He eventually left for a position with Golder Associates in California, where he spent a decade consulting on solid waste, hazardous waste, environmental engineering, and affiliated issues.
In 2017, he transitioned to his role with Slurry Waste Solutions while also establishing a individual practice with an engineering education focus.
In the professional sphere, he was energetic and humored. He delivered difficult engineering points in conference sessions and especially in ASTM standardization meetings in a manner that encouraged collegial discussion and tamped down competitive fires. His demeanor made him a natural moderator. He often served as such in conference technical sessions, taught short courses, and took up leadership of technical guidance work with ASTM Committee D35. On multiple occasions he was honored by D35, including with the Award of Recognition (2008, 2014, and 2018) and Award of Appreciation (2011).
Geosynthetica extends its condolences to the family of Tim Bauters. He leaves behind a wife, two young children, and a large community of family, friends, and colleagues around the world who are grateful for the humanity and happiness he brought to everyday interactions.
Thank you, Aigen Zhao, for sharing the news of Tim’s passing with us.
=====
Tim Bauters dies while snowboarding
Geosynthetics engineer Tim Bauters passed away while snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort in Oregon. The cause of death was not immediately known. Bauters was 47.
Bauters served as director of engineering at Slurry Waste Solutions in California. After earning his PhD in soil and water engineering at Cornell University, the Belgium native began work at Tenax Corporation, where he was introduced to geosynthetics, a topic that would occupy the rest of his career.
An avid snowboarder, Bauters had been to Mt. Hood Meadows several times before. When he did not return to California as planned, his family initiated a search with the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators found his rental car and was able to narrow the search area based on scans of his lift ticket. Staff at the resort found his body.
Bauters is survived by his wife and two young children.
geosyntheticsmagazine.com
February 21st, 2020 / By: IFAI /
=====
A California man who had been missing for days was found dead Monday at Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort, officials said.
The man, identified as 47-year-old Tim Bauters of Sunnyvale, was the second person to die in the resort’s Heather Canyon area over the weekend.
The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Bauters’ family Monday afternoon saying he had been expected to return home but never showed up. Bauters had been in Oregon on a work trip, and the last known communication he had with family was Friday, officials said, when he said he was at the resort.
Bauters was believed to be snowboarding alone, but he was in good shape and had been to Mt. Hood Meadows multiple times, officials said.
Security at the resort confirmed his rental car was still in the parking lot, and the sheriff’s office initiated a search from the air while ski patrollers narrowed the search area based on the last lift he rode.
About 6:15 p.m. Monday, staff at the resort reported they had found his body in the Heather Canyon area.
“He was an avid outdoorsman,” said Bauters’ colleague, Christopher Packal. He said Bauters, a physical engineer with Slurry Waste Solutions, had been at the company’s Hillsboro facility, and because of the long weekend, decided to take Friday off to do some snowboarding.
“He traveled a lot and always tried to work in something outdoors,” Packal said.
Packal said Bauters was supposed to work on Saturday, but when the usually communicative man didn’t show up or call, friends and family knew something was amiss.
Bauters was a Belgium native, Packal said, who did his Ph.D. at Cornell and then moved to the west coast a few years ago. He had a wife and two young kids.
“It’s very shocking,” Packal said. “You can’t be around Tim without knowing Tim. He was loud, lots of laughter — he’s irreplaceable.”
Heather Canyon, located on the east side of the resort, is home to some of Meadows’ most rugged terrain, which is sought after by advanced skiers and snowboarders.
It’s home to steep slopes, wide-open bowls and tight trees and gullies that can be accessed through gates that are open or closed, depending on daily conditions. All areas of Heather, as the canyon is known, are considered “extremely difficult” double black diamond terrain.
Meadows’ trail map warns that Heather and two other areas of the resort — Clark Canyon and Private Reserve — aren’t patrolled on a regular basis and have avalanche danger at all times. Skiers in in those areas should also be aware of waterfalls, creek holes and unmarked obstacles in those areas, the map warns.
It’s unclear exactly where in the canyon the snowboarders died, and officials from the resort did not immediately respond to questions about conditions in the area before Bauters went missing. Sean Weagle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said conditions were relatively benign, at least by mountain standards, on both days. A couple of inches of snow fell on both Friday and Sunday mornings, and temperatures were in the 20s with winds around 20 mph. There was some cloud cover on both Friday and Sunday, Weagle said, which could have affected visibility.
-- Kale Williams
[email protected]
Bauters, who most recently served as Director of Engineering at California-based Slurry Waste Solutions, was snowboarding alone in an area of Mt. Hood, Oregon. When he did not return home from the weekend outing, his family contacted the sheriff’s office in that area and a search was conducted. His body was found late on Monday.
Tim Bauters was born in Belgium and did his undergraduate and master’s studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven before coming to the United States to earn a PhD in Soil and Water Engineering at Cornell University. Following a year of post-doc research, he was hired by Aigen Zhao, then at Tenax Corporation, which embedded Tim with geosynthetics in a way that heavily influenced the rest of his career. Bauters took on roles in design engineering and quality control and Tenax.
He eventually left for a position with Golder Associates in California, where he spent a decade consulting on solid waste, hazardous waste, environmental engineering, and affiliated issues.
In 2017, he transitioned to his role with Slurry Waste Solutions while also establishing a individual practice with an engineering education focus.
In the professional sphere, he was energetic and humored. He delivered difficult engineering points in conference sessions and especially in ASTM standardization meetings in a manner that encouraged collegial discussion and tamped down competitive fires. His demeanor made him a natural moderator. He often served as such in conference technical sessions, taught short courses, and took up leadership of technical guidance work with ASTM Committee D35. On multiple occasions he was honored by D35, including with the Award of Recognition (2008, 2014, and 2018) and Award of Appreciation (2011).
Geosynthetica extends its condolences to the family of Tim Bauters. He leaves behind a wife, two young children, and a large community of family, friends, and colleagues around the world who are grateful for the humanity and happiness he brought to everyday interactions.
Thank you, Aigen Zhao, for sharing the news of Tim’s passing with us.
=====
Tim Bauters dies while snowboarding
Geosynthetics engineer Tim Bauters passed away while snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort in Oregon. The cause of death was not immediately known. Bauters was 47.
Bauters served as director of engineering at Slurry Waste Solutions in California. After earning his PhD in soil and water engineering at Cornell University, the Belgium native began work at Tenax Corporation, where he was introduced to geosynthetics, a topic that would occupy the rest of his career.
An avid snowboarder, Bauters had been to Mt. Hood Meadows several times before. When he did not return to California as planned, his family initiated a search with the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators found his rental car and was able to narrow the search area based on scans of his lift ticket. Staff at the resort found his body.
Bauters is survived by his wife and two young children.
geosyntheticsmagazine.com
February 21st, 2020 / By: IFAI /
=====
A California man who had been missing for days was found dead Monday at Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort, officials said.
The man, identified as 47-year-old Tim Bauters of Sunnyvale, was the second person to die in the resort’s Heather Canyon area over the weekend.
The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Bauters’ family Monday afternoon saying he had been expected to return home but never showed up. Bauters had been in Oregon on a work trip, and the last known communication he had with family was Friday, officials said, when he said he was at the resort.
Bauters was believed to be snowboarding alone, but he was in good shape and had been to Mt. Hood Meadows multiple times, officials said.
Security at the resort confirmed his rental car was still in the parking lot, and the sheriff’s office initiated a search from the air while ski patrollers narrowed the search area based on the last lift he rode.
About 6:15 p.m. Monday, staff at the resort reported they had found his body in the Heather Canyon area.
“He was an avid outdoorsman,” said Bauters’ colleague, Christopher Packal. He said Bauters, a physical engineer with Slurry Waste Solutions, had been at the company’s Hillsboro facility, and because of the long weekend, decided to take Friday off to do some snowboarding.
“He traveled a lot and always tried to work in something outdoors,” Packal said.
Packal said Bauters was supposed to work on Saturday, but when the usually communicative man didn’t show up or call, friends and family knew something was amiss.
Bauters was a Belgium native, Packal said, who did his Ph.D. at Cornell and then moved to the west coast a few years ago. He had a wife and two young kids.
“It’s very shocking,” Packal said. “You can’t be around Tim without knowing Tim. He was loud, lots of laughter — he’s irreplaceable.”
Heather Canyon, located on the east side of the resort, is home to some of Meadows’ most rugged terrain, which is sought after by advanced skiers and snowboarders.
It’s home to steep slopes, wide-open bowls and tight trees and gullies that can be accessed through gates that are open or closed, depending on daily conditions. All areas of Heather, as the canyon is known, are considered “extremely difficult” double black diamond terrain.
Meadows’ trail map warns that Heather and two other areas of the resort — Clark Canyon and Private Reserve — aren’t patrolled on a regular basis and have avalanche danger at all times. Skiers in in those areas should also be aware of waterfalls, creek holes and unmarked obstacles in those areas, the map warns.
It’s unclear exactly where in the canyon the snowboarders died, and officials from the resort did not immediately respond to questions about conditions in the area before Bauters went missing. Sean Weagle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said conditions were relatively benign, at least by mountain standards, on both days. A couple of inches of snow fell on both Friday and Sunday mornings, and temperatures were in the 20s with winds around 20 mph. There was some cloud cover on both Friday and Sunday, Weagle said, which could have affected visibility.
-- Kale Williams
[email protected]
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