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Geo-Extreme 2025

Long Beach, California | –

View of Rat Creek Slide (2021) in California

Geotechnical Engineering for Extreme Events

Following on the steps of the successful Geo-Extreme 2021, this conference aims at creating a multi-disciplinary forum where the geo-engineering community can work with other professionals, e.g., climate scientists, engineers, emergency managers, resilience and sustainability investigators, insurance experts, and policy makers, to properly cope with man-made and natural extreme events (such as hurricanes, floods, extreme precipitations, droughts, wildfires, debris flows, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides) under a changing climate.

Extreme Events & Geo-Hazards

Worldwide, extreme weather has caused two million deaths and over $4 trillion in costs over the last 50 years, according to the UN. During 2023, weather and climate disasters resulted in $93 billion in losses and 492 deaths in the United States alone, according to NOAA. Historical records show that the number of billion-dollar disasters is on the rise. Despite uncertainty in the projections, most climate models suggest an increase in both frequency and intensity of extreme events under climate change.

Mitigating the consequences of future extreme events will require geo-professionals to take timely actions, including, but not limited to: evaluation of existing earthen structures, design and construction of protective structures in areas where an increased probability of damage is expected, refinement of existing geo-system designs, and development of new climate-adaptive measures and risk assessment tools.

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Director's Cut

Get to know the chair of Geo-Extreme 2025, Daniel Pradel of Ohio State University.

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