| Civil and Mining Engineering |
| Stability of underground excavations (tunnels, mines, caverns, shafts, stopes, haulages) |
| Drilling and blasting |
| Pillar design |
| Design of support systems |
| Prediction of rock bursts |
| Fluid flow and contaminant transport |
| Dams |
| Slope stability |
| Energy development |
| Borehole stability and deviation |
| Borehole deformation and failure |
| Fracturing and fracture propagation |
| Fluid flow and geothermal problems |
| Reservoir production management |
| Energy extraction and storage |
| Geology/Geophysics |
| Orogeny |
| Earthquake prediction |
| Plate tectonics |
| Neotectonics |
| Structural geology |
| Volcanology |
| Glaciation |