webinars, which we offer on behalf of both the Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). At the close of each of these webinars, we are now suggesting that participants go to the GMA Techline for further interaction. The two efforts (Techline and webinars) appear to be very complementary, and we enjoy doing both. This entire 15-year process of responding and answering to the 3,500 asked questions was very insightful to us and interesting as well. It was a pleasure in so doing. Perhaps the most disconcerting aspect is that there has been too little movement between the seven discrete sets of 500 questions over time. Perhaps this is due to new people entering the geosynthetics industry asking familiar questions about our evolving technology, but this is not known to be fact. Regarding the questions in this most recent set, the categories we selected are completely repetitive from past sets of 500 Q and As. As you will note in the full report, there are patterns that have been set over time. Note Figure 4 and particularly Figure 5 in the report. In turn this observation suggests that the "educational" status of geosynthetics has not advanced significantly nor have large numbers of new professionals been exposed to geosynthetics. Clearly, education is at the heart of growth and robustness of any technology-geosynthetics included. Much greater advancements in this regard to both faculty and professionals seems to be warranted and is hereby encouraged. G Total Techline Questions on Lifetime/Durability = 674 of 3500 (19%) Buried [46%] Exposed [39%] Chemical [9.5%] Other [5.5%] Figure 1 >> For more, search GSI at www.GeosyntheticsMagazine.com. www.GeosyntheticsMagazine.com 49http://www.esiliners.com http://www.GeosyntheticsMagazine.com http://www.GeosyntheticsMagazine.com