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Special Topics for Geo-Congress 2026

• Geotechnical Engineering in Extraterrestrial Environments: Advances and challenges in geotechnical engineering to support extraterrestrial exploration, characterization, hazard identification, resource extraction, and infrastructure
• Climate Resilience: Quantifying and addressing impacts of climate hazards on geotechnical systems; developing resilient solutions and designs that account for climate-related challenges
• Developing the Next-Generation of Geo-professionals: Innovations and strategies for education, recruitment, and workforce development in the geo-professions
• AI and ML in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and Education: Opportunities and challenges with integrating AI and ML into engineering practice and education; applications of AI and ML in geotechnical practice
• Engineering for cascading and compounding geo-hazards: Field observations, physical, analytical, and numerical investigations aimed at understanding compound loads (hazard), performance (vulnerability), and risk for geotechnical infrastructure in a changing climate 
• Landslide and Rockfall Analysis and Mitigation: Tools, techniques, and case studies of managing unstable soil and rock slopes
• Earthquake Engineering in the Mountain West: challenging projects, normal faulting ground motions, deterministic vs. probabilistic design for overdue faults 
• Near-fault Ground Motions and Deep Basin Site Response: selecting and modeling near-fault ground motions, strategies for modeling and incorporating basin effects into site-specific analyses
• Tailings: Characterization, analysis, and monitoring of tailings storage facilities. Impacts of failures and techniques for remediation
• Geotechnical Engineering Challenges in Soft Clay Soils: from advanced sampling and characterization to predicting settlement and designing deep foundations and excavations
• Advancements in lightweight geo-materials: Materials and techniques to leverage lightweight fill in reducing risks, addressing the demands of a changing world, and accelerating project delivery. 

Core Geotechnical Engineering Topics

• Computational Geotechnics
• Deep Foundations
• Earth Retaining Structures
• Embankments, Dams, and Slopes
• Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
• Engineering Geology and Site Characterization
• Geoenvironmental Engineering
• Geophysical Engineering
• Geosynthetics
• Geotechnics of Soil Erosion
• Pavements
• Risk Assessment and Management
• Rock Mechanics
• Shallow Foundations
• Soil Improvement
• Soil Properties and Modeling
• Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering
• Underground Engineering and Construction
• Unsaturated Soils
• Data and Software for Geotechnical Engineering
• Education for Geotechnical Engineering
• Others

For more information on abstract content, visit the full call for abstracts on the CATALYST submission site.

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Abstracts are due January 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST.

The Geo-Institute is not planning on offering any deadline extensions for this conference, so please schedule your submissions accordingly.