Book Your Room at the Meeting Site

The 2026 SSA topical conference will be held at the Outrigger Kona. Rooms are available for registered attendees, allowing you to stay right at the center of the week’s events.

Outrigger Kona
78-128 Ehukai Street
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740

Schedule of the Week

Registration

Attendance for this meeting is strictly limited. We encourage you to register as soon as possible to secure your place. Your registration fee includes daily breakfast and lunch, as well as coffee breaks and receptions.

Registration Rates:

Membership Level	Registration
Regular Member	$970
Early-Career Member/Emeritus Member/Low-Middle Income Country Member	$760
Student Member	$695
Non-member	$1,140
Non-member Student	$740

-Companion Ticket (Includes access to evening receptions): $160

-Workshop rate:

• DAS Workshop at Keck Observatory Headquarters: $120

-Field Seminar rate:

• Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park Field Seminar: $220

Questions?  Please contact registration@seismosoc.org

Presenter Information

Oral Presenters

Talk Time: Please plan your presentation so that there are three minutes for questions from the audience.

Slide Format: The following slide formats are acceptable: PowerPoint, Acrobat and Prezi. Not accepted: Keynote, OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

Equipment: All speakers will have access to a confidence monitor (a PC laptop), an LCD projector, a wireless remote and a laser pointer. You will not be able to use your own laptop for your presentation.

Media Files and Formatting: Please bring all media files (photos, audio clips, videos) with you when you upload your talk, even if you have embedded them in your talk. There are no limits on file sizes, either for the presentation or media files. The projectors use wide format (16×9). Your slides will appear in their entirety regardless of the screen’s aspect ratio. We suggest that you use the wide format, if your slides are 4:3 there will be black bars to either side of your slides.

Your Slides: Please bring your presentation on a flash drive to upload on site at the conference.

Poster Presenters

Poster Size: The usable space of each poster board per poster is 44.75″ high x 91″ wide (1.1m x 2.3m). SSA provides push pins to hang your poster.

Local Poster Printing

Presenters are responsible for printing and bringing their posters onsite to the conference. SSA has located a few vendors in Kona that can assist with printing.

Lets Go Banners

• Full-color poster printing
• Any size up to 44.75″ × 91″
• $169 + tax (includes delivery to the conference). This rate is available up to 3 days before the meeting; orders placed after that may incur a $30+ rush fee.
• Attendees can order directly through the printer’s website by uploading their poster file.

OfficeMax (Store #6780)

• Please note: the print center at this location is closed on Saturdays and Sundays. 
• Please contact the store directly for pricing, turnaround times, and poster printing/delivery services (+1 808 329 1907).