Below is a list of upcoming and past conferences on unsaturated soils. 

Upcoming:

• 8th Asia-Pacific UNSAT 2024
  • Will be hosted jointly by RMIT and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
  • Scheduled for December 4-6, 2004
  • Paper submission due on February 2024.
• 8th Asia-Pacific UNSAT 2023
  • Will be hosted by RMIT in Melbourne, Australia.
  • Scheduled for 4-6 December 2024.
• 5th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils
  • To be held in Switzerland, details TBD.
  • Originally scheduled for 2024 but may be delayed due to the pandemic.
• 4th Pan-American Conference on Unsaturated Soils
  • To be held in Ottawa, Canada.
  • Scheduled for June 22-25, 2025.
  • Call for abstracts is sent out; due March 27.
• Geo-Americas 2024
  • Scheduled for April 28-May 1, 2024 in Toronto, Canada.
  • John McCartney is the technical committee co-chair.
  • Several sessions on geosynthetics in unsaturated soils and mining applications, papers will be open access.
• Geo-Shanghai, 2024, May 26-29.
• 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics,
  • Scheduled for Nov 18-2, 2024 in Sydney Australia.
• Geo-Extreme 2025
• ICSMGE 2026.
  • Scheduled for 14-19 June 2026 in Vienna, Austria
• UNSAT 2027
  • A bid was submitted by the G-I Unsaturated Soils Committee to host the conference in Boston, MA in 2027, and TC106 voted to select our bid.
  • Conference organization plans and G-I involvement.
  • ISSMGE conference proceedings must be open-access.

 

Past:

UNSAT 2023 (8th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils), Milos Island, Greece, May 2-5, 2023.

Geo-Congress 2023, Los Angeles, CA; March 26-29, 2023

20^th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2022 (ICSMGE 2022), Sydney, Australia, May 1-5, 2022. Hybrid format

2nd International Conf. on Energy Geotechnics (2ndICEGT), La Jolla, CA, April 10-13, 2022

Geo-Congress 2022, Charlotte, North Carolina, March, 20-23, 2022

Geo-Extreme 2021 Specialty Conference, Savannah, Georgia, November, 7-10, 2021.

3rd Pan-American Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 25-28, 2021. (Online)

IFCEE 2021, Dallas, Texas, May 10-14, 2021. (Hybrid)

Geo-Americas 2020, Rio de Janeiro, October 26-29, 2020 (online)

4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Lisbon, Portugal, October 19-21, 2020 (online).

Principles of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Its Application in Geotechnical and Pavement Engineering Workshop, 2020 National Road Research Alliance (NRRA) Pavement Workshop, May 19, 2020

Geo-Congress 2020, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 25-28, 2020

XVI Pan American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotech. Eng., Cancun, Mexico, November 17-20, 2019

7th Asia-Pacific Conf. on Unsaturated Soils, Nagoya, Japan, August 23-25, 2019

GeoCongress 2019, Philadelphia, PA, March 24-27, 2019

Symposium on Energy Geotechnics, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 26-28, 2018

UNSAT 2018 (8th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils), Hong Kong, August 3-5, 2018

Geotechnical & Structural Engineering Congress 2016, Phoenix, AZ, February 14-16, 2016

IFCEE 2015, San Antonio, TX, March 17-21, 2015

UNSAT 2014, Sydney, Australia, July 2-4, 2014

GeoCongress 2014, Atlanta, GA, February 23-26, 2014

ICSMGE 2014, Paris, France, September 2-6th, 2013

GeoCongress 2013 San Diego, CA March 3-6th, 2013

Pan-American Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Cartagena de Indias, February 20-22nd 2013

ISSMGE TC-101 Workshop on Advances in Multiphysical Testing of Soils and Shales, September 3-5, 2012, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

ASTM Workshop on Innovations in Characterizing the Mechanical and Hydrological Properties of Unsaturated Soils, San Diego, California, USA, 25 June, 2012

2nd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Napoli, Italy, 20-22 June, 2012

GeoCongress 2012, Oakland, California, USA, March 25-29, 2012

Asia-Pacific UNSAT 2011, Pattaya, Thailand, 29 February-2 March, 2012

Pan American CGS Geotechnical Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 2-6 2011

GeoFrontiers 2011, Dallas, TX, March 2011

5th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT 2010), Barcelona, 2010

4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Newcastle, Australia, 2009

1st European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2008), Durham, UK, 2008

3rd Asian Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT-ASIA 2007), Nanjing, China, 2007

4 International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT 2006), US, 2006

Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics Conference, Trento, Italy, 2005

International Conference "From Experimental Evidence towards Numerical Modeling of Unsaturated Soils", Weimar, Germany, 2003

3rd International Conference on Unsaturated Soil (UNSAT 2002), Brazil, 2002

Expansive Soil Sessions at ASCE Civil Engineering Conference, Houston, Texas in 2001

1st Asian Conference on Unsaturated Soil (UNSAT-ASIA 2000), Singapore, 2000

Unsaturated Soils Sessions at Geo-Denver 2000

International Workshop on Unsaturated Soils held in Trento, Italy in 2000

2nd International Conference on Unsaturated Soil (UNSAT'98), Beijing, 1998

Unsaturated Soils Sessions at Geo-Logan 1997

1st International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT'95) held in Paris, France in 1995

Unsaturated Soils sessions at the ASCE Convention held in Dallas, USA in 1993

7th International Conference on Expansive Soils held in Dallas, USA in 1992