近年，地震災害，大雨や台風に伴う土砂災害や開発に伴う工事中の事故など地質・地盤に関する問題が多く発生しており，地域ごと，工事内容に伴う「地質地盤リスク」を把握する必要があります。一方で，地熱エネルギーなどの再生可能エネルギーの利用促進や二酸化炭素地中貯留，地下水利用などについても地質・地盤の知識を基に課題解決することが必要です。応用地質学とは，このような問題や課題を取り扱う学問であり，地質学，地形学，地球物理学，物理探査学，地球化学，地下水学，地盤工学など様々な基礎学術を幅広く活用しながら社会が抱える課題に対処する実践的活動を行っています。本セッションは，幅広い関連分野からの発表を募集し，相互討論を実施し知識を深めて分野間協同を促進するほか，特に若い世代に応用地質学の人間社会生活に果たす役割と魅力を伝えることを目指します。

Recently, the ground and basement geology related issues such as seismic hazards, sediment-related disasters caused by heavy rains and typhoons, and accidents associated with land development have been increasing. Considering these situations, it is imperative for us to understand the Geo-Risk associated with land development separately for different regions and detailed contents of construction. Further, the issues related to the promotion of renewable energies such as geothermal ones, and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and the usage of underground water must be solved based on the knowledge of ground and basement geology. Applied geology is such a discipline dealing with those problems as mentioned above, and can conduct practical activities utilizing many different disciplines such as geology, geomorphology, geophysics, exploration geophysics, geochemistry, ground hydrology, geotechnical engineering, etc. to cope with the issues faced by society. In this session, we will call for presentations from many disciplines related to applied geology, and promote the cooperation between different ones through mutual discussion and deepened knowledge. In addition, we aim to transfer the message emphasizing the important role played in the lives of the people and attractiveness of applied geology, in particular, to younger generations.