Conferences and Events

Background

The resources below include links to events and conferences, all relating to medicine in austere and extreme environments and the diverse fields of endeavour that this covers. Please note that listing of an event does not constitute endorsement, and we encourage you to do your own research, especially before paying to attend an event.

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Conferences and Events

Timeline

• International Museum of Surgical Science exhibition: Health in Space: Daring to Explore, from 31 May 2024, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Space Agenda – rolling list of space industry events (global).

• AIAA Online Short Courses – course catalog for 2025 (fees payable).

• Wilderness Medical Society – Wilderness Medicine Educational Events calendar (mainly USA but incudes some international listings).

• June 2025

• 95th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association, 1-6 June 2025, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, GA, USA (in conjunction with the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS)).

• Space Tech Expo | USA, 02-04 June 2025, Long Beach, CA, USA.

• EMPA (Emergency Media and Public Affairs) Conference, 04-06 June 2025, Melbourne, Australia.

• 20th Student CanSat Space Technology Symposium, 05-08 June 2025, Staunton and Monterey, Virginia, USA.

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  Astrobiology Graduate Conference (ABGRADCON), 10-13 June 2025, Boulder, CO, USA. Application Deadline: March 31, 2025, Proposal Writing Retreat: June 6-10, 2025.

• HUMAN + TECH WEEK – The Future of Human Wellbeing, Performance, and Longevity in the Age of AI, 16-20 June 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA.

• National Space Society’s 43rd Annual International Space Development Conference (ISDC), 19-22 June 2025, Orlando, FL, USA.

• 3rd Australian Space Cyber Forum, 23-24 June 2025, Adelaide, South Australia.

• Human Factors & Pilot Training Symposium 2025 (HFS 2025), 23–26 June 2025, Salzburg, Austria.

• Climate Change & Infectious Disease Threats, 23-26 June 2025, Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany

• ESA Living Planet Symposium (From Observation to Climate Action and Sustainability for Earth), 23-27 June 2025, Vienna, Austria (Tutorials starting 22 June PM).

• UNOOSA Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space – Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, 68th session, 25 June-04 July 2025, Vienna, Austria.

• AstroAid Foundation – SpaceTech for Humanity Forum, 29-30 June 2025 (online and free). A cross‑sector virtual forum by the AstroAid Foundation uniting space technology, healthcare, pharma, and humanitarian innovation for global impact.

• July 2025

• The International Summer School in Astrobiology will be held in Santander, Spain, from 07-11 July 2025. Stay tuned for more information on how to apply.

• ICES 2025 – 54th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 13-17 July 2024, Prague, Czech Republic.

• 18th Australian Space Forum (Harnessing national interests through space), 15-16 July 2025, Adelaide, South Australia.

• World Extreme Medicine and Durham University Business School Department of Management & Marketing Space Medicine Course, 17-19 July 2025, Durham University, UK (GBP £345.00 – GBP £395.00).

• The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) are joining forces to host their 33rd and 24th conferences on bioinformatics and computational biology, 20-24 July 2025, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

• Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) Summer Conference, 20-24 July 2025, The Abbey Resort, Lake Geneva, WI, USA (in-person and online).

• AIAA ASCEND, 22-24 July 2025, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

• Astrobiology Spectral Database Workshop, 23-24 July 2025, Virtual (free).

• International Space Station Research and Development Conference ISSRDC 2025, 28-31 July 2025, Seattle, WA, USA.

• Emergency Management Conference 2025 – EMC’s 25th anniversary, 29-30 July 2025, Pullman Melbourne Albert Park, Victoria, Australia.

• August 2025

• AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, 10-14 August 2025, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

• 2025 NASA Heliophysics Summer School, 11-20 August 2025, Boulder, CO, USA.
  Audience: Graduate students and early postdoctoral fellows, Application Deadline: 31 January 2025, Contact: krodd@ucar.edu
  The NASA Heliophysics Summer School is a unique educational experience with hands-on learning and lectures focusing on the physics of space weather events that start at the Sun and influence atmospheres, ionospheres, and magnetospheres throughout the solar system. Applicants must be majoring in a field related to heliophyics and be pursuing a career in heliophysics or astrophysics. There is no tuition cost for the event, and each participant receives full travel support to Boulder.

• Design a Space Station: Space Station Design Workshop (SSDW), Institute of Space Systems – University of Stuttgart, Germany, 23–29 August 2025. The SSDW addresses master and PhD students as well as young professionals with less than three years of work experience. The one-week challenge constitutes the unique opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge in an international and interdisciplinary environment in order to design a concept for a future space station under the guidance of experts from industry and academia. Further information about the workshop can be found on our website: www.SpaceStationDesignWorkshop.com.

• Australian Disaster Resilience Conference, 27-28 August 2025, Perth, Western Australia.

• September 2025

• AAS Glenn Space Technology Symposium, 09-10 September 2025, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

• AFREhealth – The African Forum for Research and Education in Health 8th Annual Symposium, 22 September 2025, Dakar, Senegal.

• ASAM 2025 Conference, 18-21 September 2025, Hilton Adelaide, South Australia.

• Aviation Health Conference, 23-24 September 2025, London, UK.

• Aeromed Conference: 40 Years of Critical Care in the Air – Beyond Borders, United in the Skies, 24-26 September 2025, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

• Off-Earth Mining Forum 2025: “Space Mining: One Industry or Two?”, 25-26 September 2025, Sydney, Australia. More information on registration, speakers and the program will be available soon, so please watch this space or stay in touch with us on LinkedIn.

• 23rd Space Generation Congress, 25-27 September 2025, Sydney, Australia (in conjunction with the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC)).

• 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)’s premier global space event, 29 September-03 October 2025, Sydney, Australia. Visit the page for the listing of adjacent events here.

• October 2025

• New Zealand Aerospace Summit, 07-08 October 2025, Christchurch, New Zealand.

• 2025 Mars Society Convention, “Mars: The Time has Come“, 09-11 October 2025, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

• AAS von Braun Space Exploration Symposium, 27-29 October 2025, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

• International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine (ICASM), 27-30 October 2025, Singapore.

• ICAR (International Commission for Alpine Rescue) Congress, 07-12 October 2025, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA.

• November 2025

• Falling Walls Science Summit, 07-09 November 2025, Falling Walls Science House, Karl-Marx-Allee 34, Berlin, Germany or Online.

• Space Asia Workshop, 07 November 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Australian Space Research Conference, 24-26 November 2025, Melbourne, Australia. Abstracts close on 5th September 2025.

• AWEMS annual conference, “Off the beaten track“, 26-29 November 2025, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. (Workshops 26 and 29 November, main conference 27-28 November).

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~ Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe. Image Credit & Copyright: Carnegie Institution for Science. Image and explanation below downloaded from: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200426.html (accessed 31 July 2020).
Explanation: How big is our universe? This very question, among others, was debated by two leading astronomers 100 years ago today in what has become known as astronomy’s Great Debate. Many astronomers then believed that our Milky Way Galaxy was the entire universe. Many others, though, believed that our galaxy was just one of many. In the Great Debate, each argument was detailed, but no consensus was reached. The answer came over three years later with the detected variation of single spot in the Andromeda Nebula, as shown on the original glass discovery plate digitally reproduced here. When Edwin Hubble compared images, he noticed that this spot varied, and so wrote “VAR!” on the plate. The best explanation, Hubble knew, was that this spot was the image of a variable star that was very far away. So M31 was really the Andromeda Galaxy — a galaxy possibly similar to our own. The featured image may not be pretty, but the variable spot on it opened a door through which humanity gazed knowingly, for the first time, into a surprisingly vast cosmos.
~ Einstein quotation is available at: https://thequotes.in/the-important-thing-is-not-to-stop-questioning-curiosity-has-its-own-reason-for-existing-albert-einstein/.