call for abstracts

Submit your Abstract Here

The Organising Committee for the 2025 GSNZ Annual Conference invite researchers and professionals to submit abstracts for consideration and inclusion in the conference programme as an oral or poster presentation. 

Key Dates: 

Abstract Submission Opens: 11 July     
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 11 August
Authors Notified of Acceptance: Early October
Registration Deadline for Accepted Presenters: 24 October

Conference Sessions:

  • A Welcome Journey - Weaving the strands of human diversity into geoscience
  • Active Tectonics and Earthquakes of Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Deciphering Aotearoa's environmental past, present and future
  • Distributed Volcanism: Processes, Products, and Hazards
  • Earth, Energy, and Innovation: Geoscience for the Energy Transition
  • Exploring the Frontiers of Marine Geosciences: Processes, Hazards, and Resources
  • General Geoscience
  • Geoscience advances with synchrotron radiation
  • Geoscience communication, education and outreach, going on around the motu and beyond
  • Ka mua ka muri: mātauranga māori and its application in the geosciences
  • Our changing landscapes: Surface process dynamics, evolution, and hazards
  • Paleontology for the People
  • Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland – a Geoscience Laboratory
  • The Aotearoa New Zealand geoscience data landscape: management, computing and dissemination solutions
  • The role of Geoscience for sustainable mining endeavours: Aotearoa's experience
  • Understanding tectonic and magmatic processes
  • Volcanic Lakes: Dynamics, Hazards, and Community Resilience
  • Volcanic processes shaping Aotearoa´s landscape

To view more information about each of these Sessions please visit the Sessions tab under the Programme page. Sessions might be re-arranged in collaboration with the respective lead conveners to accommodate the respective topics and number of submitted abstracts in the conference programme.

Conference Themes: 

  • Tectonics and Magmatism 
  • Geohazards, Surface Processes and Society
  • Environmental Change, Resilience and the Energy Transition
  • Unravelling Earth's Past

Submission Guidelines:

  • Abstracts to be submitted in English 
  • No more than 300 words
  • You will be required to enter details for the author/co-authors separately during the submission process (author name, affiliation, email address) 
  • If you are submitting on behalf of the Presenter/s, please have their email address/s ready to include in the submission
  • Please select the relevant session or theme during your submission that most closely aligns with the content of your abstract or you may choose General Geoscience. 
  • Submissions are limited to 2 x abstracts (1 x oral and 1 x poster) per registered author. 

General Information

Review and Notification to Authors
All completed submissions will be reviewed. You will be informed by email from gsnz@confer.co.nz of the acceptance status of your abstract by early October. All presenters are required to register and pay the registration fee by the Early Bird Deadline of  24 October in order to be included in the programme and to present in person at the event. 

Publication
By submitting an abstract, authors agree to publication of chosen abstracts on the conference proceedings or similar by GSNZ.


Conference Organisers

Conferences & Events Ltd
Conference Manager: Ali Howard
 +64 4 384 1511 

This event is organised by Conferences & Events Ltd.  We are a New Zealand business.