Special Sessions

The Call for Special Session Proposals has now closed.

Accepted special session organizers must submit a conference paper that contains at least a short session overview along with the paper submission fee. All special session presenters within the accepted session will also be required to submit a conference paper that contains at least a short presentation abstract along with the paper submission fee.

Accepted Special Session Proposals:

• Advancements in Fault Displacement Hazard
• AI In Action: Toward Generalizable And Deployable AI For Multi-Hazard Resilience Of Critical Transportation Infrastructure
• Bridging Earthquake, Tsunami and Landslide Risk and Resilience for the Cascadia Region Earthquake and Tsunami
• Cascadia Lifelines Dependencies Collaborative
• Developing And Implementing an International Macroseismic Scale (IMS) For Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Science, and Rapid Damage Assessment: An Information and Feedback Session
• Earthquake Simulations in the Pacific Northwest: State of the Art, Multihazard Applications, and User Needs
• EERI Housner Fellows Functional Recovery Questionnaire: Interactive Session on Collecting Data after Earthquakes
• Escalating Disaster Impacts: Making the Case for Investing in Multi-hazard Resilience
• Federal Shifts in Earthquake Risk Reduction: Policy, Programmatic, and Funding Reforms and EERI’s Advocacy Response
• From Code to Policy: Seismic Retrofit Ordinance Development and Implementation in the U.S. and Abroad
• From Hazard to Risk: Tsunami Impacts by Integrating Earth Observation, Exposure, and Real-Time Forecasting in a Changing Climate
• Future Environmental Multi-Hazards in Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering Practice
• High-Resolution Regional Simulations to Inform Risk Mitigation and Resilience Planning
• How Can Centering Community and Context Expand the Boundaries of Natural Hazard Risk Assessment?
• Insurance, Risk, and Resilience
• Integrating Smart Sensing with Seismic Risk Tools for Resilient Gas Infrastructure
• Learning from the 1985 Mexico City Earthquake – 40 Years Later
• Managing the Seismic Risk of Fuel Infrastructure: Lessons Learned from Oregon’s CEI Hub
• Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Focused on Reducing the Damage from Natural Hazards to Civil Infrastructure
• Next Generation Liquefaction (NGL): Database Curation, Model Development, and Focused Studies
• Next-Gen Housing: Modular Timber Construction for Seismic Resilience
• NGA-West3 Program: Data and Models
• NIBS Lifelines Infrastructure Hub Activities
• Observations from the 2025 M7.7 Myanmar Earthquake
• Operationalizing Post-Earthquake Data Collection for Functional Recovery Design
• Outreach Strategies to Boost Civil Engineering Enrollment
• Recent Achievements and Lessons Learned from Seismic Safety Advocacy in Utah
• Regional Differences in Site Effects Across the United States
• Reshaping Resilience in Transportation Systems under Earthquake and Multi-Hazard Threats
• Resilient Wood Structures
• Risk-Based Seismic Design: Advances, Needs, Challenges, and Communication
• Seismic Design for Functional Recovery: Progress and Pathways to Codification
• Seismic Policy Development and Resilience Planning for Oregon’s Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub
• Seismic Safety Legislation in California: EERI’s Influence & Action
• Site Response Analysis: Bridging the Gap Between Observations and Practice
• Solutions, Not Problems: Research-to-Practice Application of Advanced Tools in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Across the Interface of Seismic Hazard, Ground Motions, Material Characterization, and Numerical Modeling
• Speed Dating with Earthquake Early Warning: Revealing Conversations About What Makes Mitigation in the Moment Possible
• The Earthquake Engineering Community Would Benefit From More Open-Source Tools in Research and Practice: A Debate
• Translating AI and Analytics into Multi-Sector Action for Earthquake and Multi-Hazard Resilience
• Transportation System Vulnerability Assessment and Applications for Earthquakes and Other Hazards
• Tutorial: U.S. Geological Survey Tools for Earthquake Hazard Analysis
• Update of ATC-20: Postearthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings
• Waveforms and Intensity Measures: Opportunities and Challenges for Engineering Applications