Natural Hazards



Advances and Challenges in Modelling Multi-hazard Flood Risk Across Riverine, Urban, and Coastal Systems
Primary Convener:  Mohit Prakash Mohanty, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Water Resources Development and Management, Roorkee, India
Conveners:  Ashok K Mishra, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States and Subhankar Karmakar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Centre for Climate Studies, Mumbai, India
Student/Early Career Convener:  Hrishikesh Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Water Resources Development and Management, Roorkee, India


Advances in Decision-Support Systems, Resilience Analytics, Modeling Tools, and User-Inspired Datasets for Managing Extreme Weather Risks
Primary Convener:  Dr. Nasser Najibi, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States
Conveners:  Ceyda Polatel, US Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, Jacksonville, United States, Simon Kraatz, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, Bandana Kar, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, United States and David J Farnham, ClimateAI, New York, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Jeongwoo Hwang, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States, Mona Hemmati, Columbia University, New York, United States and Sarah Murphy, PhD, U.S. Geological Survey, New England Water Science Center, Augusta, United States


Advances in Monitoring, Modeling, and Performance Assessment of Best Management Practices for Improved Watershed Management
Primary Convener:  Elmira Hassanzadeh, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Département des génies civil, géologique et des mines, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Nasrin Alamdari, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States and Monireh Faramarzi, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada


Advances in Physical Climate Risk Assessment for the Financial and Insurance Sectors
Primary Convener:  Mona Hemmati, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Simona Meiler
Conveners:  Jana Sillmann, Research Unit for Sustainability and Climate Risks, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Alessio Ciullo, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Kai Kornhuber, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria and Simona Meiler
Student/Early Career Convener:  Simona Meiler, Stanford University, Stanford, United States and Simona Meiler


Advances in Solid Earth Geohazards: From Process Understanding to Forecasting and Risk Mitigation
Primary Convener:  Christelle Wauthier, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Lisa Clare McNeill, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Anne Socquet, University Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Grenoble, France and Elizabeth S Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Cesar Lopez, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States


Advancing Flood Hazard Mapping in Data Scarce Himalayan Basins; A Geo Spatial Approaches from the Melamchi River Basin Nepal
Primary Convener:  Mr. Subash Duwadi, PhD Scholar , Tribhuvan University, Faculty Member, Department of Environmental Sciences, Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus, Ghantaghar Kathmandu Nepal; Ph.D. Scholar, Central Department of Environmental Sciences, Tribhuvan University, kritipur Kathmandu Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Convener:  Krishna KC Katuwal Mr, Tribhuvan University, Department of Engineering Geology, TU, Tri- Chandra Multiple Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal
Student/Early Career Convener:  Mr. Ramesh Kathariya, Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Environmental Sciences (CDES), Kathmandu, Nepal


Advancing interdisciplinary research on pre-earthquake processes, earthquake forecasting, and nowcasting using models, observations, and AI-enhanced techniques.
Primary Convener:  Dimitar Ouzounov, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Chania, Greece
Conveners:  John B Rundle, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Angelo De Santis, INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy and Katsumi Hattori, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan


Application of Innovative Technologies for Early Prediction and Early Warning Systems for Increasing Risk Resilience for Extreme Weather Events: Lessons Learned from Global Changing Climate
Primary Convener:  Kalpana Chaudhari, Future Earth Future Earth Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events, Mumbai, India; Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, Institute For Sustainable Development And Research, ISDR, Mumbai, India
Convener:  Pasquale De Toro, Professor and Former Director, Interdepartmental Research Center in Urban Planning ‘Alberto Calza Bini’, The University of Naples ‘Federico II’,Italy, Napoli, Italy
Student/Early Career Convener:  Giuliano Poli, Research Scientist,Dipartimento di Architettura,Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II,Napoli,Italy, Dipartimento di Architettura, Napoli, Italy


Applications at the Intersection of Science, Practice, and Policy to Proactively Address Natural Hazard Risk
Primary Convener:  Colby K Fisher, Hydronos Labs, Princeton, United States
Conveners:  Elinor Benami, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States and Mona Hemmati, Gallagher Re, New York, United States


Applications of Innovative Machine Learning Techniques in Natural Hazards Research
Primary Convener:  Seung Hee Kim, Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States
Conveners:  Son V Nghiem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Yangwon Lee, Geomatics Research Institute, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea and Menas Kafatos, Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jongmin Kim, Chapman University, Orange, United States


Assessing Tropical Cyclone Hazards in a Changing Climate System
Primary Convener:  Hiroyuki Murakami, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
Conveners:  Dr. Shuai Wang, PhD, University of Delaware, Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, Newark, DE, United States and Wei Zhang, Utah State University, Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Logan, UT, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Chenxi Hu, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States


Assessing, Modeling, and Predicting the Fate of Contaminants from Natural Hazards
Primary Convener:  Cat Odendahl, University of Southern California, Ocean Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Convener:  Denise Berg, California State University Northridge, Geological Sciences, Northridge, United States


Bridging Science and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Extreme Weather Preparedness and Community Resilience
Primary Convener:  Selena Hinojos, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, United States
Conveners:  Nazla Bushra, Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States, Ishita Pal, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, United States and Emad H Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Civil Engineering, Lafayette, LA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Mostafa Nasser, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States


Coastal Resilience with Data-Driven Planning Approaches
Primary Convener:  Yilei Yu, Rice University, Center for Coastal Futures & Adaptive Resilience, Houston, United States
Conveners:  Rui Zhu, Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College Station, United States and Sophiya Gyanwali, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sophiya Gyanwali, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, United States


Commercial Earth Observation Data: Leveraging Commercial Earth Observation Data for Rapid Disaster Response
Primary Convener:  Melissa Yang M Martin, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Shanna N. McClain, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences, Washington, United States and Dana Ostrenga, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States


Compound Extremes and Multi-Hazard Risks: Interactions, Cascading Impacts, and Predictability in a Nonstationary Climate
Primary Convener:  Dr. Sushree Swagatika Swain, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Vinnarasi Rajendran, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, Somnath Mondal, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States and Shushobhit Chaudhary, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, Department of Civil Engineering, Dhanbad, India
Student/Early Career Convener:  Mr. Usman Mohseni, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Civil Engineering Department, Roorkee, India


Compound, Consecutive, and Cascading Events: From Data Discovery and Physical Drivers to Risk Management
Primary Convener:  Leila Rahimi, PhD, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL, United States
Conveners:  Carlo De Michele, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, Italy, Kai Kornhuber, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, Sara Santamaria-Aguilar, University of Central Florida, UCF Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States and Leila Rahimi, PhD, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Pravin Maduwantha Mahanthe Gamage, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, FL, United States


Cooperative Strategies for Wildland Fire Science and Management: Integrating Earth Observation Science, Technologies and Operations to Enhance Community and Ecosystem Resilience
Primary Convener:  Kimberley Rain Miner, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Marion Wittmann, Wildfire Resilience Initiative, Santa Barbara, United States and Douglas Kowalewski, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences (GEO); Climate Change and Human Health (C2H2), Alexandria, United States


Dam Safety Under Changing Climate: Monitoring, Risk Assessment, and Failure Prediction Using Data-Driven Approaches
Primary Convener:  Mr. Vishal Thakur, M.Engg, Czech University of Life Sciences, Water Resources and Environmental Modelling, Prague, Czech Republic
Conveners:  C Lallawmawma, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DAMS, Roorkee, India, Yaggesh Sharma, Kyung Hee University, Department of Civil Engineering, Yongin, South Korea and Mathilde Sørensen, University of Bergen, Department of Earth Sciences, Bergen, Norway


Data Science for Weather and Climate Extremes: Risks, Drivers, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Mukesh Kumar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Convener:  Dr. Sridhara Nayak, PhD, Japan Meteorological Corporation Limited, Earth Science Center, Osaka, Japan
Student/Early Career Convener:  Somnath Mondal, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States


Disaster risk cognitive science: Is there anything we can do for future landslide hazards in advance?
Primary Convener:  Koichi Hayashi, Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
Conveners:  Gonghui Wang1, Shintaro Yamasaki2 and Makoto Matsuzawa2, (1)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Japan(2)Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan


Earth Observations for Monitoring and Assessment of Risk and Resilience of Communities and Infrastructure
Primary Convener:  Margaret T Glasscoe, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Bandana Kar, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, United States, Prof. Albert Kettner, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Guy Schumann, RSS-Hydro, Research and Education Department, Dudelange, Luxembourg and ZhiQiang Chen, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Bandana Kar, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, United States


Earthquake Hazard and Risk Across Diverse Tectonic Regions: Integrating Seismology and Engineering, Bridging Well-Instrumented and Emerging-Data Regions
Primary Convener:  Chukwuebuka Chukwuemeka Nweke, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  William Kumar Mohanty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, Saibal Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Kharagpur, India and Pengfei Wang, Old Dominion University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norfolk, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Rashid Shams, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States


El Niño 2026: Linking Seasonal Forecasts to Agri-Food Risk and Population Vulnerability
Primary Convener:  Giriraj Amarnath, International Water Management Institute, Silverton, South Africa
Conveners:  K V Rao, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, India and Balaji Rajagopalan, Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States


Extreme Atmospheric Rivers and Compound Hazard Risk: Advances in Modeling, Data Assimilation, and AI
Primary Convener:  Katerina Giamalaki, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Anna Wilson, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Minghua Zheng, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States and Yang Zhou, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Frederike Monte, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States


Extreme Coastal Hazards, Cascading Infrastructure Risks, and Community Impacts
Primary Convener:  Boniface Fosu, Mississippi State University, Geosciences, Mississippi State, MS, United States
Conveners:  Mona Hemmati, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Jonathan Sury, Columbia University of New York, New York, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Jackie Sustiel, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Yen-Heng Lin, Mississippi State University, Northern Gulf Institute, Mississippi State, United States and Jainish Patel, Rice University, Houston, United States


Extreme Sea Levels: Modeling, Impacts,and Risk Management
Primary Convener:  Ariadna Martin Oliva, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States
Conveners:  Sönke Dangendorf, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States, Alejandra R Enriquez, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, United States and Meghana Nagaraj, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Gabrielle Quadrado, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States


Fostering Resilience in Communities with Geohazards
Primary Convener:  Adelaide C Johnson, Community Collaborators, Juneau, United States
Convener:  Lisa Busch, Fairweather Cove Consulting LLC, S, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ella Neumann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology Policy Program, Cambridge, United States


From Detection to Decision: Environmental and Societal Impacts of Conflict and Disaster Across Scales and Systems
Primary Convener:  Jamon Van Den Hoek, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Eoghan Darbyshire, University of Manchester, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Manchester, United Kingdom, Iryna Dronava, University of California Berkeley, Dept of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, United States, Lina Eklund, Lund University, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund, Sweden and He Yin, Kent State University, Department of Geography, Kent, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Hannah G Pankratz, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Huntsville, United States and Corey Scher, Oregon State University, Geography Program, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States


From Streets to Streams and Seas: Tracking, Modeling, and Managing Plastic and Litter Pathways in Communities
Primary Convener:  Nazife Oruc Baci, University of Georgia, School of Environmental, Civil, Agriculture, and Mechanical Engineering, Athens, GA, United States
Conveners:  Felix Luis Santiago-Collazo, University of Georgia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Athens, United States, Matthew Willi Brand, Louisiana State University, Civil Engineering, Baton Rouge, United States and James Lofty, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany


Fusing Science and Security: Building Collaboration in the Geosciences for National Security and Public Safety Applications
Primary Convener:  Anthony L Nguy-Robertson, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, St Louis, United States
Conveners:  Peter G. Rinkleff, U.S. Geological Survey, National Civil Applications Center, Lakewood, United States and Christine M Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Multi-Hazard Analysis and Disaster Management
Primary Convener:  Prof. Taskin Kavzoglu, PhD, Gebze Technical University, Geomatics Engineering, Kocaeli, Turkey
Convener:  Haluk Ozener, 2 Bogazici University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey; 1 Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Disaster and Emergency (AFAD), Istanbul, Turkey


High-Impact Atmospheric Rivers: Bridging Science, Forecasting, and Hazard Risks
Primary Convener:  Agniv Sengupta, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Conveners:  Aneesh Subramanian, University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States and Bin Guan, University of California, Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Vesta Afzali Gorooh, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States


Interdisciplinary Tsunami Science
Primary Convener:  Ignacio Sepulveda, San Diego State University, Department of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering, San Diego, CA, United States
Conveners:  Clea Denamiel, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, Linlin Li, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China and Robert Weiss, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Academy of Integrated Science, Blacksburg, United States


Landslide Life Cycle: From Hazard Analysis to Risk Assessment
Primary Convener:  Jacob Woodard, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan P Perkins, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology Minerals Energy and Geophysics Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, Stratis Karantanellis, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, United States and Eric L Bilderback, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Deanna Nash, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States


Landslides in Rock: Advances in Analysis and Prediction of Rockfalls, Rockslides, and Rock Avalanches
Primary Convener:  Greg M Stock, National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA, United States
Convener:  Brian D Collins, USGS Landslide Hazards Program, Moffett Field, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Erin K Jensen, USGS, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States


Land–Ocean–Atmosphere Drivers of Hydroclimatic Extremes: Prediction and Early Warning in the South Asian Monsoon
Primary Convener:  Naman Rastogi, University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Balaji Rajagopalan, Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Manabendra Saharia, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Civil Engineering, New Delhi, India
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Naman Rastogi, University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Priyam Deka, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Civil Engineering, New Delhi, India


Machine Learning (ML)/Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advances in Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Prediction of Natural Hazards
Primary Convener:  Zhiqi Yang, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Michael J Deflorio, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States, Luca Delle Monache, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States and Weiming Hu, University of Georgia, Center for Geospatial Research, Department of Geography, Athens, United States


Monitoring and Assessment of the Dynamic Nature of Natural Hazards
Conveners:  Ramesh Singh, Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Environmental Science, Orange, United States, Cathleen Jones, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Ashwani Raju, Banaras Hindu University, Department of Geology, Varanasi, India


Monitoring, Mapping, and Modeling of Regional-Scale Slope Failure Hazards
Primary Convener:  Weibing Gong, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
Conveners:  Stratis Karantanellis, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, United States, Lei Wang, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, United States and Yimin Lu, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States


Multi-Hazard Flood Modeling: From Inland to Coast
Primary Convener:  Felix Luis Santiago-Collazo, University of Georgia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Athens, United States
Conveners:  David F Muñoz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, Francisco Peña Guerra, Galt Group Inc., Wellington, United States; Florida International University, Miami, United States and Avantika Gori, Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Luciana Iannone Tarcha, University of Georgia, School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural & Mechanical Engineering, Athens, United States


Navigating Complex Risk in the 21st Century
Primary Convener:  Ryan Michael McGranaghan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Erin Coughlan de Perez, Tufts University, Boston, United States, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, Eric Tate, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, United States and Danielle Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Media Arts and Sciences; Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA, United States


Past Eruptions, Future Risk: Connecting Paleo Records to Hazard Assessment
Primary Convener:  Julie Edwards, UC Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, United States
Convener:  Lili Xia, Rutgers University, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ally Peccia, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States


Planetary Defense in Action: Asteroid Hazards, Mitigation, and the International Response to 2024 YR4
Primary Convener:  Catherine S Plesko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Jessie Dotson, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, Stephanie Bouchey, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Dawn Graninger, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sean Stokes, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States


Practical AI for Wildfire Science
Primary Convener:  Ziheng Sun, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Tong, George Mason University, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences, Fairfax, United States, Yunyao Li, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Li Zhang, CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, United States and Shan Sun, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, United States


Satellite Altimetry to Drive Risk Analysis, Resilience and Adaptation
Primary Convener:  Aimee Renee Neeley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Denis Felikson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States


Seismoacoustics: Sources, Propagation, and Emerging Methods
Primary Convener:  Dr. Elizabeth A Silber, PhD, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Conveners:  Miro Ronac Giannone, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, Dr. Camille Martire, PhD, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Anna B Perttu, Massey University, Palmeston North, New Zealand and Serina Wang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Serina Wang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States


Sensitivity and Uncertainty Characterization in Multi-Scale Modeling of Drought-to-Flood Transitions: Integrating 1D–2D Hydrodynamic, AI/ML, and Index-Based Modeling Frameworks
Primary Convener:  Subhankar Karmakar, Mumbai, India
Conveners:  Kaustav Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Green Energy and Sustainability Hub, Mumbai, India, Jagriti Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Centre for Climate Studies, Mumbai, India and Ajay Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Mumbai, India


Toward Reliable and Scalable Geohazard Intelligence: From Multiscale Sensing to Open Data Foundations
Primary Convener:  Xin Wei, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Chuxuan Li, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Jingxiao Liu, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environment Department, Berkeley, United States and Bingxu Luo, The University of Arizona, Geoscience, Tuscon, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ann Sinclair, Northwestern University, Earth, Environmental, & Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States


Vegetation-Fuels Mapping with Remote Sensing
Primary Convener:  Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Adrian Pascual, University of Maryland College Park, Geography, College Park, MD, United States, Antonio Ferraz, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States and Nancy H F French, Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States


Where There’s Smoke…There’s Science: Connecting Wildfire Across Systems, Scales, and Society
Primary Convener:  Riley Barton, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Katie Wampler, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States, Jasquelin Pena, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Christina Richardson, University of California, Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States; University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Davis, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Humyra Bente Murshed, Oregon State University, Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, Corvallis, United States


Wildfire Analysis Using Remote Sensing, Multi-sensor Fusion, Multi-source Data Integration, and Artificial Intelligence
Primary Convener:  Dr. Shilan Felehgari, PhD, Montana State University, Department of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States
Conveners:  Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University, Department of Civil Engineering, Boise, ID, United States, Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, Charles Luce, Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Boise, United States and Bita Sabbaghzadeh, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), Rostock, Germany


Wildfire Commons: Collaboration, Integration and Innovation for a Wildfire Resilient Future
Primary Convener:  Claire Stirm, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ilkay Altintas, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States and Melissa Floca, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States