Sub Session

01
SESSION

Solid Earth Dynamics

The theme focuses on Earth's active interior and surface processes, encompassing crustal evolution, metamorphic transformations, magmatism, and metallogenic ore deposits.

1/a Crust & Mantle

Crust-Mantle Interplay: Tracing Imprints on the Surface

CONVENER M. Rajanikanta Singh Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Description

This sub-session welcomes contributions on the rocks of Earth's outer shell and deep Earth entities. It includes chemical and physical changes driven by plate tectonics, melting, metamorphism, subduction and exhumation.

1/b Fluid & Melt

Fluid/Melt-Rock Interaction: Insights into Crust-Mantle Geodynamics

CONVENERS Piyal Halder, Agata Poganj¹ & Kunda Badhe Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun & ¹Uppsala Universitet-Sweden
Description

Fluid/melt-rock interactions play a pivotal role in various Earth processes across a range of pressures and temperatures. The session welcomes research on conceptual, methodological, or experimental advances and/or challenges in understanding how fluid- or melt/metals-rock interactions govern mineralisation, metamorphism, and deformation, and thereby influence crust-mantle evolutionary processes.

1/c Magmatism

Interplay Between Magmatism and Earth's Energy Dynamics

CONVENER N. Lakhan Singh NIT Durgapur
Description

Magmatism is one of the thermal sources of the planet. It moves huge amounts of heat and melted rock from deep inside the Earth to the crust and surface. This sub-session welcomes submissions on the rocks that form from mantle melting process, which helps build the new crust, changes the planet's internal energy balance and powers the global geochemical cycles.

02
SESSION

Sedimentary Archives and Prehistoric Life

The theme focuses on multidisciplinary aspects of sedimentology and paleontology, investigating earth's paleoenvironmental changes and evolutionary history.

2/a Sedimentary Basin

Basin Evolution in Time and Space

CONVENER Subhojit Saha Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Description

This sub-session deals with evolution of sedimentary basin and invites contributions on studies based on multi proxies like field based facies, paleoenvironmental analysis, detrital geochronology and bulk rock isotopes.

2/b Climate & Evolution

Evolutionary History of Life in Response to Climatic Shifts

CONVENER N. Premjit Singh Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Description

This sub-theme focuses on understanding how ancient climate changes influenced the evolution, adaptation, and extinction of species over geological time.

2/c Palaeontology

Old Bones, New Tools - An Alpine-Himalayan Perspective

CONVENER Fabio Franceschi Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Italy
Description

This session explores the vertebrate palaeontology pipeline, from excavation and preparation to systematic interpretation and museum exposition and digitization. Highlighting the Alpine-Himalayan belt, we want to illustrate how cutting-edge digital technologies complement traditional methodologies, bridging European and Asian research to unravel shared tectonic, evolutionary, and palaeobiological histories through fossil vertebrates and interactive public engagement.

2/d Coal & Minerals

An Assessment of Fuel (Coal) Energy: From Peat to a Critical Minerals Resource

CONVENER Pramod Kumar Rajak Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Description

This Sub-Session deals with 'paleomires'-ancient peat-forming swamp ecosystems, which help transform peat to coal, that usually host the Critical Minerals and environmentally sensitive elements (ESEs), has direct bearing on the paleohistory.

2/e Microfossils

Tiny Fossils, Big Insights: Decoding Earth's History

CONVENER Ainul H. Ansari DS College, Aligarh
Description

Microfossils provide valuable records of Earth's history, revealing geological age, depositional environments, paleoclimate and evolution. Session invites contribution on micropaleontology, paleoecology, and stratigraphy.

2/f Marine Fauna

Life in the Phanerozoic: Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution of Marine Fauna

CONVENER Sandip Saha ISI Kolkata
Description

The Sub-session invites contributions on Phanerozoic marine fossil records providing valuable insights into the spatial and temporal dynamics of past diversity, ecology, and evolutionary changes.

2/g Marine Communities

Ancient Marine Communities: Sedimentary Records, Taphonomy, Palaeoecology and Evolution

CONVENER Qingyi Tian Nanjing University, China
Description

This sub-session welcomes studies exploring ancient marine communities through their sedimentary records using multiproxies, which help investigate community structure, organism–environment interactions, climatic change, evolutionary dynamics, preservational bias and fossil–modern comparisons through time.

03
SESSION

Environmental Geology, Geomorphology and Hazard Resilience

The theme focuses on landforms and topographic architecture, encompassing natural resources, climate variability over time, disruptive natural events & its mitigation and anthropogenic impact.

3/a Surface Processes

Decoding Surface Processes and Natural Resources Using a Multiproxy Approach

CONVENER Rouf A. Shah Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Description

The sub-session invites contributions on studies focusing cryosphere, hydro-meteorology, fluvial and groundwater dynamics.

3/b Groundwater

Groundwater Systems: Occurrence, Dynamics, Quality, Recharge and Emerging Challenges

CONVENER Raicy M C. CWRDM, Kerala
Description

This sub-session welcomes research across all aspects of groundwater science, including aquifer occurrence and characterisation, resource assessment, groundwater flow, recharge and discharge, groundwater quality, advanced tools in groundwater research, Groundwater modelling, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, vulnerability, and sustainable groundwater management.

3/c Paleoenvironments

Quaternary Paleoenvironments from Indian Lakes and Wetland Systems

CONVENER Choudhurimayum Pankaj Sharma IIT Roorkee
Description

Indian lakes and wetlands preserve valuable Quaternary records of climate, environment, and landscape change. Studies of both short and long depositional sequences have improved our understanding of monsoon variability, vegetation, hydrology, and human impacts. This session welcomes all such studies and discusses the challenges of developing longer archives.

3/d Climate Change

Reconstructions and Mechanisms of Cenozoic Climate and Environmental Change

CONVENERS Thamizharasan Sakthivel and Tobias Agterhuis Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun & ¹University of Southampton, UK
Description

The Cenozoic spans a wide range of atmospheric CO2 and temperature states, and paleoarchives capture this variability across annual-to-tectonic timescales, enabling reconstructions of past climate and environmental change. We welcome contributions using traditional and emerging proxies, including studies integrating observations with process-based, forward-modelling, or statistical approaches to investigate underlying mechanisms.

3/e Hazard Resilience

Slope Failure and Hazard in Response to Climate Change

CONVENER Prodip Mandal Sikkim University
Description

High-mountain areas are susceptible to cascading hazards due to complex tectono-climatic-erosional interactions. We welcome studies on glacial debuttressing, permafrost degradation, slope deformation, landslide-dammed lakes, hillslope hydrology, and the modelling of vulnerable slopes and their downstream cascading potential. Which help in understanding landscape evolution and developing effective disaster-mitigation strategies.

3/f Isotope Geochemistry

Earth-Surface Processes and Biogeochemical Cycles: Application of Advanced Isotope Geochemistry

CONVENER Mohd Aadil Bhat SKUAST-K, Srinagar
Description

This sub-session highlights advances in isotope geochemistry and complementary analytical approaches for deciphering Earth-surface processes and biogeochemical cycles. Contributions are invited on stable and radiogenic isotopes, chemical weathering, soil erosion, hydrology, water–rock interactions, river transport, carbon-sulfur- nitrogen cycling, environmental change, and emerging applications across terrestrial and aquatic systems.

04
SESSION

Seismotectonics, Sub-surface Imaging and Crustal Deformation

The theme focuses on seismological and geophysical investigations toward the understanding of Earth system processes.

4/a Crustal Deformation

Assessment of the Crustal Deformation and Seismotectonics: A Geophysical Approach

CONVENER Vandana Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Description

This sub-session invites contributions on integrated geophysical and seismological investigation in deciphering subsurface structure, crustal deformation, seismotectonic processes, and its characteristic and associated hazards.

4/b AI & Geophysics

Integrating Artificial Intelligence with Modern Geophysical Methods

CONVENER Chinmay Haldar Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Description

This sub-session invites contributions on the development and application of AI, ML, DL, computational and mathematical techniques, used to address new and existing challenges in geophysics i.e., waveform analysis, subsurface structure, earth evolution, dynamics, natural Resources and hazard assessment.

4/c Subsurface Imaging

Envisaging Shallow Subsurface Using Geophysical Techniques

CONVENERS Jitender Kumar and Mahak Singh Chauhan¹ Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun and ¹NGRI, Hyderabad
DESCRIPTION

This sub-session addresses the application of shallow seismic, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), ground-penetrating radar (GPR), GPS, gravity, magnetic, and remote sensing techniques to image surface and subsurface structures, active faults, sedimentary architecture, deformation zones, and near-surface heterogeneities. The primary emphasis is on advancing the understanding of seismotectonic processes and crustal deformation.

05
SESSION

Advanced Analytical Techniques and Tools in Geoscience

Principles and practices of analytical techniques in geosciences, using advanced methods and integration of modern approaches in reshaping our interpretation ability.

5/a Micro-Analysis

Importance of High-Resolution Micro-Analysis, Mass Spectrometry and Geophysical Techniques and Tools

CONVENER Saurabh Singhal Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Description

This sub-session invites contributions on integrating high-resolution mass spectrometry, portable field spectroscopy, and non-destructive micro-imaging, which help assess elemental compositions, date geological formations, and analyse subsurface structures with micro-scale precision and real-time field mobility.

5/b Critical Minerals

Metal Stable Isotope Tracing of Critical Metal Mineralisation: From Source to Deposit

CONVENER Jia-Xin She Nanjing University, China
Description

This session focuses on the application of metal stable isotopes to decipher the sources, transport pathways, and enrichment mechanisms of critical metals (e.g., Li, Be, Cu, Rb, Sn, REEs) throughout the magmatic–hydrothermal cycle, with emphasis on isotope fractionation behaviour, controlling mechanisms, and the construction of a source-to-deposit isotopic tracing framework.

5/c Data & Computing

Computational and Data-Driven Approaches in Geoscience

CONVENER Bappa Mukherjee Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Description

This sub-session invites contributions on emerging computational and data-driven approaches including machine learning, deep learning, numerical modelling, geophysical inversion in geosciences. Used to understand earth systems, subsurface characterisation, earthquake, hazards, geo-resources, sustainability and resilience.

5/d Isotope Studies

Isotope-Based Approaches in Geohydrological Studies

CONVENER Gopal Krishan NIH, Roorkee
Description

This sub-session focuses on advanced isotope-based approaches for characterizing complex groundwater systems and supporting sustainable management. It welcomes studies using stable isotopes, tritium, hydrogeochemistry, and complementary geospatial or analytical tools to investigate recharge, groundwater–surface water interactions, residence time, contamination, salinization, depletion, waterlogging, and groundwater quality.

5/e AI / ML

Data-Driven Discovery in Geosciences Using AI/ML Techniques

CONVENERS Bappa Mukherjee, Jarrod Burges¹ Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun and ¹Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Description

Advancements in AI/ML, coupled with the broad adoption by the geological community, have enabled data-driven discovery of geochemical, physical, and geobiological processes. We welcome proposals involving AI/ML methods across all scales, from the single crystal to broad tectonic regimes and extraterrestrial systems.

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