Researchers Meeting

Researchers Meeting Helene

July 16 to 17, 2025

The 2025 Researchers Meeting will be held from 2:00 to 8:00 p.m. MDT on Wednesday, July 16 and from 7:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, July 17 following the 50th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. The meeting schedule includes breakout sessions for paper presentations, roundtable discussions, and networking events. This meeting is open to all members of the hazards and disaster community.

Ways to Contribute

Submit Now!

Interested in contributing to the 2025 Researchers Meeting? If so, please submit an abstract or roundtable idea by February 28, 2025!

Researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts focused on any topic related to hazards and disasters. There are two ways to contribute to the Researchers Meeting:

  1. Present Your Research. In this format, speakers will have 10 to 12 minutes to share their research using PowerPoint slides, with an additional 3 to 5 minutes for audience Q&A. Presentations will be organized into concurrent sessions featuring 4 to 6 presentations on a common topic.

  2. Lead a Roundtable Discussion. Roundtables are discussion-based and will be centered around the topic that you describe in your submission. Rather than presenting scholarly research material, roundtable organizers will facilitate a dialogue with the audience on a key research-focused thematic area.

Registration

Registration for the Researchers Meeting can be added to the Natural Hazards Workshop registration or is available at a stand-alone rate. Once registration opens, both options will be available on the registration page.

General Registration
$250

Students
$200

All participants, including those in presenting roles, must register for the meeting. Speaker discounts are not available for the Researchers Meeting.

Meeting Details

Location

The 2025 Researchers Meeting will take place at the Omni Interlocken Hotel at 500 Interlocken Boulevard, Broomfield, Colorado.

Accommodations

Rooms are available for purchase at the Omni Interlocken, Renaissance Flatiron, or Hilton Garden Inn Hotels. When booking, please indicate that you are making a reservation as part of the Natural Hazards Workshop.

Room block reservation links are now available on the Workshop Lodging webpage.

Meals

A Wednesday evening reception and coffee breaks are included in the price of add-on meeting registration. Additionally, lunch on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons will be held in the outdoor pavilion and are available for purchase with your registration.

Subscribe

Please make sure that you are subscribed to Workshop updates so you will be alerted when registration opens.

Questions?

For questions about the Researchers Meeting, please contact the Natural Hazards Center team at researchersmeeting@colorado.edu.

The Researchers Meeting is organized by the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Disasters (ISA-RC39) with the support of the Natural Hazards Center and the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) CONVERGE facility at the University of Colorado Boulder.


This meeting is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) (Award #1841338 and Award #1635593). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this meeting are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.