Geo Events

The Annual Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has become the preeminent national conference in this important environmental area. The conference attracts 600-800 attendees annually which includes a wide variety of representation from state and federal agencies, military, industry (including railroad, petroleum, transportation, and utilities), environmental engineering, environmental consulting, and academia.

The AWEA Offshore WINDPOWER Conference program has cultivated a dedicated and thriving global community of top developers and experts, making it the largest and most successful gathering of offshore wind energy professionals in the United States.

The GHGT conference series has established itself as the principal international conference on greenhouse gas mitigation technologies especially on CCS (CO2 Capture and Storage).

OEEC brings together the oil & gas, offshore wind and marine energy industry, and addresses the technical, operational and commercial challenges associated with future sector growth. The three-day event includes an exhibition where an expected 600+ supply chain companies will showcase their products and services. Next to that, there is an accompanying conference that covers key topics and solutions for the offshore community.

NOCCA welcomes all who work on climate change adaptation, within the fields of science, in local communities, governments and municipal administration, in ministries and national authorities, politics, businesses, industry and NGOs to
- exchange ideas of adaptation methods and opportunities across many sectors
- increase our knowledge of the latest climate science
- discuss how to integrate solutions for adaptation and mitigation.

Join us for our 43rd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Anaheim where you will network with the largest gathering of practitioners specializing in the deep foundation industry; attend special lectures featuring our world-renowned keynote speakers; learn about innovations in design, construction and delivery of deep foundations; become updated on design, construction, QC/QA and risk assessment/management; hear about DFI’s global initiatives and research to promote foundation safety, quality, durability and sustainability. There will also be an Exhibit Hall featuring 120+ companies.

Geotechnical challenges associated with dynamic loads on railroad track and road pavements often require scientific and technological breakthroughs for design innovations. The scope of the 8th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration and Transportation Geodynamics 2018 will cover environmental vibrations induced by industrial, civilian and transportation activities, problems associated with dynamic vehicular loading on road foundations, and sustainability challenges of transportation infrastructures and the built environment.

The congress theme is “Towards a Sustainable Geoenvironment.” “Sustainable Development is to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Geoenvironment is a specific compartment of the environment and comprises portions of geosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. Under this theme the congress will cover a broad range of topics and will provide an excellent opportunity for academics, engineers, scientists, government officials, regulators and planners to present, discuss and exchange the latest advancements and developments in the research and application of environmental geotechnics.

Rock mechanics in resource and infrastructure development. ARMS 10 is where specialists and professionals from an international community meet to exchange ideas and information to advance scientific and technical knowledge for the rock mechanics community. Join Us!

VSOE is aimed to create platform for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and entrepreneur to discuss and promote technology and policy changes toward renewable energy, as well as generate business opportunities in oil and gas and offshore renewable energy.

The conference will invite globally recognized speakers and world authorities in Urban Underground Space to share their experiences and knowledge with planners, architects, engineers and researchers in the region. It is intended to hold keynote presentations to showcase latest thinking and approach in integrated compact city urban design. Parallel sessions to suit various interests will be organized to further present the state of the art in those related and key underground space disciplines. Discussion and debate will be sought to analyse and assess topical key issues related to urban underground design and implementation. The conference will seek high quality papers that can provide insight, rigour and useful practical examples of integrated underground solutions for compact metropolitan cities.

The broad topics covered in ICSE conferences include fundamental mechanisms of erosion and scour, modelling (both physical and numerical) of erosion and scour processes and engineering applications that involve scour and erosion processes. The ICSE conferences have been well attended by scientists and engineers from broad areas such as civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, coastal and offshore engineering. One of the strong features of the ICSE conferences has been the cross disciplinary collaborations between geotechnical and hydraulic engineers.

SEAGC 2018 "Geotechnical Challenges for Mega Infrastructures" The conference is organized by Indonesian Society for Geotechnical Engineering (HATTI), under the auspices of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), and Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Government of Indonesia. You are invited to participate in the conference and contribute papers.

Coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in fractured geological media are critically important to a number of subsurface engineering activities, including mining, geothermal exploitation, oil and gas exploitation, and nuclear waste disposal. Numerical modeling of THMC processes and experimental observations are crucial for understanding, analyzing, controlling and optimizing these subsurface engineering practices. The conference will focus on new and exciting advances in all areas of coupled processes associated with fractured geological media, including numerical methods, in-situ tests, lab experiments and applications to different subsurface engineering activities.

Under the theme of "Learning from the past, thinking in the future", this symposium encompasses all aspects of rock mechanics, rock engineering, and geomechanics. related to excavations in civil and mining engineering.

The workshop will address state-of-the-art insights on overall integrity of CO2 storage including subsurface formation characterization, wells & infrastructure integrity, storage ca­pacity & pressure management, monitoring & remediation, and CO2 EOR. Non-technical topics such as risk communication, social & regulatory issues, and resource required to meet the challenges to safely implement large scale CCS will also be covered.

GeoMEast 2018 will provide a showcase for recent developments and advancements in design, construction, and safety Inspections of transportation Infrastructures and offer a forum to discuss and debate future directions for the 21st century. Conference topics cover a broad array of contemporary issues for professionals involved in bridge, pavement, Geomechanics, geo-environmental, geotechnical, geosciences, geophysics, tunnel, water structures, railway and emerging techniques for safety inspections. You will have the opportunity to meet colleagues from all over the world for technical, scientific, and commercial discussions.

The ICGEG 2018 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics.

The Joint Technical Committee on Natural Slopes and Landslides (JTC1) of Federation of International Geo-engineering Societies (FedIGS), which is the alliance of the learned societies ISSMGE, ISRM, IAEG and IGS, is organising the Second JTC1 Workshop on Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides.

The VDI Tunnel Construction conference will bring together international experts and key players from the industry to discuss important issues such as building information modelling, excavation and construction methods, challenging inner-city projects, maintenance and retrofitting as well as digitalization and innovative new technologies.

The lectures focus mainly on soil behaviour and advanced methods in geotechnical engineering and less on the use of the Plaxis programs. Subjects as undrained behaviour and consolidation, previously treated only in advanced courses, have been included in this course. They are illustrated by practical case studies of embankments and deep excavations. This way, the course offers an introduction to the modelling of geotechnical problems that are encountered in day-to-day engineering practice.

The Sediments Conference series is a forum for sharing research results, practical experiences, and opportunities associated with investigating, remediating, and restoring the environmental and economic vitality of waterways. Managing these aquatic systems requires complex actions that affect a diverse group of stakeholders and touch a wide range of environmental, economic, political and social issues.

The course aims at providing science and expertise based education with a mixture of lectures and hands-on activities. It is designed as an advanced level training intended for people with good basic knowledge and experience in the field of snow and avalanches. You will improve your observational skills in the field and your analytical capabilities in data interpretation and will be able to integrate new techniques and methods into your daily work.

The conference has a diverse range of themes including: Foundations and Retaining Structure, Ground Improvement, Offshore and Nearshore Geotechnics plus many more. This promises to be an ideal forum for exploring the recent learnings in the broader Geomechanics community. It is from these learnings that the industry is able to continue to drive new innovations and drive practice forward.

At the SedNet 2019 conference “Sediments as a dynamic natural resource – from catchment to open sea”, we invite abstracts for a series of sessions aiming to explore these challenges and proposed solutions. This includes how policies and plans are developed for the range of often interlinked issues experienced along the journey from upland areas to the deeper waters such as how sediment quality should be assessed, sediment as an ecosystem service and how excess sediment can be used beneficially. The challenges posed as a result of anthropogenic influences, resource exploitation and climate change shall also be explored as well as emerging problems being examined such as contaminants resulting from discharge of waste.

Combining a unique location and a great city that is fully representative of the ‘Italian lifestyle' with archeology, architecture, art, touristic attractions and of course, tunnelling. Not to mention, important underground works built recently in a unique and complex geology, giving impressive examples of how important and attractive underground works were built.

Rock dynamics involves diverse research scopes ranging from earthquake engineering, blasting, impacts, failure as well as the occurrence and prediction of earthquakes. Rock dynamics has wide applications in civil and infrastructural, resources and energy, geological and environmental engineering, geothermal energy, and earthquake hazard management. This topic has become one of the important area of research and engineering activities in Geomechancis and Geoengineering. 2019 RDS is a specialzed symposium of International Society of Rock Mechancis and Rock Engineering(ISRM) and devoted to topics on the dynamic behavior of rock and rock masses and scientific and engineering applications.

The “cold regions” of the world cover large areas in the northern hemisphere, including Canada, Alaska, Finland, Norway, Sweden, vast portion of China and Russia, and all the northern tier of the United States. Cold regions cover 50% of the world’s total land area. Transportation infrastructure in cold regions faces great technical challenges due to ground freeze-thaw or permafrost degradation. New transportation infrastructure on embankments, such as high-speed railways on slab tracks or highways, requires high geometry standards. This Conference aims to provide a broader look at the overall problems faced by designers, contractors, and infrastructure owners during planning and building of transport infrastructure in cold regions.

Coastal Sediments is an international coastal science and engineering conference which has been held every four years since 1977, alternating with its sister conference, Coastal Dynamics. The Coastal Sediments Proceedings, published by World Scientific, are peer-reviewed and have a high impact on the coastal science and engineering community as tracked by Google Scholar.

Climate change is considered by many to be the challenge of the 21st century. The urgency and severity of this challenge call for integrated ways of looking at responses to reduce the risks associated with environmental and social stressors, and ensure a secure future for humans and ecosystems. Adapting to climate change requires a coordinated and synergistic approach from a diverse range of actors across sectors, as well as questioning assumptions about the drivers of risk, vulnerability and environmental change.

Thematical Sessions:
1. Conventionally excavated tunnels
2. Mechanically excavated tunnels
3. Other underground structures, repositories, reconstructions and history
4. Geotechnical investigation and monitoring
5. Numerical modelling, BIM, research and development
6. Equipment, operational safety and maintenance
7. Risk management, contractual relationships and funding
A significant foreign expert will give an invited lecture at the beginning of each section.

As in the previous editions, the conference topics will address through general and parallel sessions the most recent developments in earthquake geotechnical engineering, stimulating fruitful technical and scientific interaction with the fields of seismology, geophysics, geology, structural and infrastructural engineering.

Engineers, financers, policy makers and innovators, both practitioners and academics, need to join forces. ICONHIC2019 invites all stakeholders to come together to question the status quo by proposing out-of-the-box solutions. Challenging panel discussions, top-notch lectures, bilateral meetings, oral sessions and a pre-conference forum are combined to maximize impact and applicability of proposed ideas.

7th ISDCG will follow both its traditions and active promotion of new technical elements to maintain it as one of the most popular and vibrant events within the geotechnical community. The technical core themes will focus on: (i) advanced laboratory geotechnical testing; (ii) application of advanced laboratory testing in research, site characterisation, and ground modelling; (iii) application of advanced testing to practical geotechnical engineering. In addition to these traditional topics, sub-themes will include cutting-edge techniques and approaches, for example experimental micro-mechanics, non-invasive monitoring systems, nano and micro-sensors, new sensing technologies. A key goal is to engage with the full spectrum of geotechnical specialists, from early career engineers and researchers through to world leading experts.

The Congress aims to be a forum for the discussion of relevant scientific, and technological developments in computational mechanics, numerical methods and engineering applications. CMN 2019 is jointly organized by the Portuguese (APMTAC) and the Spanish (SEMNI) Associations and follows the previous congress editions since 2002. The scientific program will comprise plenary lectures from leading researchers and will be structured in thematic sessions in different research fields.

The organize committee of AP-UNSAT2019 hope that all events during the conference may provide an easy-access bridge between the theoretical researches and the practical applications related to unsaturated soils. In particular, young researchers and engineers dealing with unsaturated soils from Asia-Pacific region and beyond are warmly encouraged to attend the conference and submit their papers. Well-documented case histories from the region are also particularly welcome.

The theme of the Conference is "Geotechnical Engineering, foundation of the future", which embraces all aspects of geotechnical engineering. Geotechnical engineering is the foundation of current as well as future societies, which both rely on complex civil engineering infrastructures, and call for mitigation of potential geodangers posing threat to these. Geotechnical means and solutions are required to ensure infrastructure safety and sustainable development. Those means are rooted in past experiences enhanced by research and technology of today.

Predicting the behavior of fault and top seals remains a major uncertainty not just in the exploration, appraisal and production of conventional petroleum reservoirs but also in areas such as gas methane and CO2) storage and radioactive waste disposal.

The conference program includes the following topics:
- Laboratory and in-situ tests
- Theoretical and analytical solutions in geomechanics
- Numerical formulations of geotechnical problems
- Geotechnical practice and case study
- Transportation geotechnics
- Geological and glacitectonic problems
- Special session "Pile tests - 2019"

2019 will be a special year for the ISRM South America National Groups when the region welcomes the ISRM family for its 14th Congress. Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay will be the host countries for the event that is to be held in Foz do Iguassu, city that marks the common border amongst these countries. The central theme of the Congress is Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development, a theme much relevant and needed for the current stage of most of the countries.

This conference aims to address the most updated developments in information communication and technologies in geo-engineering. It covers the application to laboratory and field tests, as well as the monitoring and survey of geo-structures. It embraces also intelligent geomaterials, intelligent construction and all the related aspects with design, construction and maintenance of geo-structures.

The main theme of the 17th ARCSMGE is “Innovation and Sustainability in Geotechnics for Developing Africa”. The theme originates from the fact that Africa as a whole suffers from a pronounced infrastructural deficit when compared to other developed countries and regions. Therefore, both innovative and sustainable infrastructure is crucial for Africa’s economic integration. As such, the vision of improved geotechnics is a positive notion directed at the development of the continent.

The main theme of the 16ARC is Geotechnique for Sustainable Development and Emerging Market Regions. A number of subjects on modern geotechnical technologies and activities will be covered up to match up the main theme.

Natural resources of our planet are among the main topics of interest for geoethics. Referring to surface and groundwater management, geoethics promotes a prudent and responsible use, and recycling wherever possible, fostering key concepts like sustainability, respect for natural dynamics, and preservation from pollution. In this perspective, geoscientists are called to disseminate correct information on the best way to manage water resources for the benefit of society, and to sensitize public opinion about the active contribution the population can give to the conservation of water in order to avoid the depletion of this essential resource for the life on the planet.

Finnish Geotechnical Society (SGY) invites you to the 14th Baltic Sea Geotechnical Conference 2020. The conference will be held in beautiful Helsinki Finland 25-27 May 2020. The theme of the conference is Urban Geotechnics.

The Nordic Geotechnical Meeting is one of the oldest seminar series in the field of geotechnical Engineering. We wish all geotechnical experts welcome to Helsinki to join our professional event.

The conference will be held in June 2020. Date not set.
Further information will be made available soon.

The event is the fourth of a series of European conferences and will be hosted at IST in Lisbon, Portugal, from 24 to 26 June 2020. Thematic sessions will be on (i) Climate Stresses, (ii) Environmental Geotechnics, (iii) Energy Geotechnics, (iv) From Micro to Macro and (v) on any topic related to unsaturated soils and rock mechanics and geoengineering. Applications to Geotechnical Engineering (Linear Infrastructures, Landslides, Field Measurements, …) and new topics will be also addressed, such as (i) Nano-Micro Technology, (ii) Bio-Inspired Technology and (iii) Powder-Grain Technology.

The main topics addressed by TC204 Cambridge 2020 concern the geotechnical aspects of the analysis, design, construction and maintenance of deep excavations, tunnels and large underground structures, with particular emphasis on the development, effects and control of ground movements, their interaction with existing structures, mitigation measures and risk management.

The aim of the conference is to give an up-to-date picture of the broad research field of computational geomechanics. Contributions from experts around the world will cover a wide range of research topics in geomechanics. Pre-conference courses will also be held in Grenoble (France) and Milan (Italy).

Site characterisation is unarguably the most important, but also most “difficult”, component of geo-engineering. ISC’6 brings together the world’s experts who, with you and others, are working daily to improve the quality and reduce the difficulties involved. This conference is the forum for sharing this knowledge and experience. Hear and contribute to the latest ideas and technologies at the conference. See and touch and learn of the latest hardware and software and services at the trade exhibition.

This Forum will include a mid-term review of the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships, voluntary contribution to the Sendai Framework 2015-2030 and the Agenda 2030 – Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Participants of the Fourth World Landslide Forum adopted the 2017 Ljubljana Declaration on Landslide Risk Reduction – contributing to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The Declaration proposes the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk to be finalized during the preparatory activities for WLF5 and adopted during WLF5 in order to serve this purpose. The Commitment aims to establish in the medium and long term a global alliance that will accelerate and incentivize action for landslide risk reduction.