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Our conference will be hosted in Launceston, Tasmania from Thursday 26 November to Saturday 28 November, 2026.
This year’s keynote speakers will be Dr Sara McBride (California Seismic Safety Commission USA), Michelle Grant (LGE Consulting NZ), and Professor Mark Stirling (University of Otago NZ).
Abstract submissions are closed. Papers due 31 August.
Download the AEES Paper MS Word template and submit via email to admin@aees.org.au
Our Melbourne conference was hosted at Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn from Thursday 20 November to Saturday 22 November, 2025. This year marked the 35th anniversary of the formation of the Society and included a special panel session to recount the history of AEES and explore its evolution over the decades.
Pictured here with AEES President Scott Menegon (centre) are keynote speakers Dr Anna Kaiser (left) from Earth Sciences New Zealand (formerly GNS Science), and Dr Lisa Tobber (right) from the University of British Columbia. Professor Kenneth Elwood from the University of Auckland was our first speaker – click through to the page using the button above to learn more about our speakers and for more information from the event.
The 2024 meeting was held at Eos by Skycity in Adelaide, South Australia from Thursday to Saturday 21-23 November to mark the 70-year anniversary of the 1954 magnitude 5.4 Adelaide earthquake. That was the most destructive earthquake on record in Australia prior to the devastating 1989 Newcastle earthquake. Our excellent keynote speakers were Dr Helen Crowley (far left), Prof. Timothy Sullivan (2nd from left) and Dr David Wald (far right), pictured here with AEES President Scott Menegon.
The conference was held in Brisbane, Queensland from Thursday the 23rd to Saturday the 25th of November 2023, with keynote speakers (l-r) Osman Osbulut, Caroline Orchiston, Charlotte Brown, and from Australia’s USAR responders to the Türkiye earthquake, Ross Bramich and Doug May (not shown).
The theme of our 2022 Conference was Women In Earthquake Engineering & Science Communication and was held on 24-25 November at the Victorian Emergency Management Institute. Keynote speakers were (shown next to AEES President Trevor Allen, l-r) Hélène Dutrisac, Katrin Beyer, Jane MacMaster, and Wendy Bohon.