The Department of Civil Engineering at SMIT is going to organize its second international conference, Down to Earth (DTE-2025), focused on Natural Hazards: Risk Analysis and Mitigation. This event will take place from November 13th to 15th, 2025, at SMIT in Sikkim, India. The conference aims to bring together leading experts, researchers, and professionals to tackle critical challenges related to climate change, disaster resilience, and risk mitigation. Participants will explore innovative strategies for assessing and mitigating hydrological, geotechnical, and earthquake hazards while integrating engineering innovations for natural hazard assessment. Additionally, discussions will emphasize environmental hazards, disaster-resilient infrastructure, and sustainable solutions for water security and environmental risk management. Your expertise and contributions will provide invaluable insights and inspire meaningful discussions among participants.

Submission Guidelines

1. You may begin the preparation of full-length manuscript for submission as per the Down to Earth 2025 template provided below and submit the manuscript as per the deadlines. For more details, please refer to Author Information for springer proceedings. For details, please visit: https://dte25.in/call-for-papers/

2. We kindly request you to strictly adhere to the prescribed template guidelines for submission of the full-length manuscript for the conference proceedings.

3. Plagiarism/Similarity index will be checked using Turnitin, and it should not be more than 15% in total and not more than 5% from a single source.

4. The page limit for the manuscript is restricted to 12 pages.

5. Papers less than 4 pages will not be considered for publication in conference proceedings.

6. Springer only publishes original articles with new outcomes in proceedings, no review articles and no literature survey articles are accepted. However, authors of such papers are welcome to present their work at the conference, and a certificate of participation will be provided.

List of Topics

• The theme of the conference consists of subject area(s) as follows. However, the list is indicative and not exhaustive:

  • Hydrological Hazard Assessment and Mitigation

  • Environmental Hazards

  • Geotechnical and Earthquake Hazards and Mitigation

  • Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure

  • Engineering Innovations for Natural Hazards Assessment

Committees

Program Committee

• Dr. Sajal Sarkar, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim.
• Dr. Partha Sarathi Nayek, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim.
• Dr. Tamal Ghosh, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim.
• Dr. Hari Bhakta Sharma, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim.

Organizing committee

• Mr. Kiran S, SMIT

• Dr. Himangshu Pal, SMIT

• Ms. Upama Bomzon, SMIT

• Mr. Sourav Gupta, SMIT

• Mr. Abhranil Adak, SMIT

• Mr. Guru Prasad Sharma, SMIT

• Mr. Axay Thapa, SMIT

• Mr. Rajdeep Roy, SMIT

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Rajib Shaw, Keio University's Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), Japan
• Prof. Vinod K. Sharma, Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority, Govt. of Sikkim
• Prof. Hemant B. Kaushik, IIT Guwahati
• Prof. Surya Parkash, National Institute of Disaster Management
• Prof. Pijush Samui, NIT Patna
• Dr. Subrata Chakraborty, IIEST Shibpur
• Prof. Brajesh Kr. Dubey, IIT Kharagpur
• Dr. Mahesh Reddy Gade, IIT Mandi

Publication

DTE-2025 proceedings will be published in Springer– Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (Scopus-indexed)

Venue

The conference will be held in Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to downtoearth@smit.smu.edu.in and/or downtoearth2025.smit@gmail.com

Sponsors 

In Collaboration with Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority (SSDMA), Govt. of Sikkim, India