Deep Underground Science and Engineering

We invite original research, reviews, and case studies including but not limited to the following: • Exploration / extraction of geo-resources, including deep mining and aggregate mining, rock bursts, deep underground surveys, induced seismicity. • Energy extraction and storage, including oil and gas exploration, petroleum geomechanics, shale gas, hydrofracking, enhanced geothermal systems, pumped storage hydropower, compressed air energy storage, and underground hydrogen storage. • Underground infrastructures, including deep underground space, hydropower engineering, tunnels, underground storage, oil storage, LNG storage, rock caverns. • Geo-environments and waste geological disposal, including underground carbon storage, geological carbon sequestration, carbon mineralisation, nuclear waste disposal, coupled THMC processes, fluid flow, deep biosolid injection. • Research and testing space in deep underground, including deep underground laboratory, geosciences, biosciences, subsurface imaging, transparent earth; induced fracturing, fault-slip modelling, fracture network engineering, subsurface engineering • Planning, design, and construction technology for underground space and engineering, including for health and safety, resilience, deep drilling, geohazards, geophysical surveys, cost benefit analysis, and underground blasting.