The YES Network is an international association of young and early career Earth scientists who are primarily under the age of 35 or are within ten years after graduating form their PhD, and are from universities, geosciences organizations and companies from across the world. The YES Network was formed as a result of the International Year of Planet Earth in 2007. Previous YES Congresses were organized in 2009 in China, 2012 in Australia, 2014 in Tanzania, 2017 in Iran. The Congresses generally focus on climate, environmental and geoscience challenges facing today’s society, as well as career and academic pathway challenges faced by early career geoscientists.

The 5th YES Congress 2019 in Berlin will attempt at “rocking earth’s future” by focusing on six large topical issues:

- ASHES TO ASHES - UNDERSTANDING EARTH PROCESSES
- UNBOXING EARTH - INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEM SOLVING
- HERITAGE EARTH - SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- SOCIETY AT RISK - IMPACTING EARTH PHENOMENA
- BRAVE NEW WORLD - ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES IN EARTH SCIENCES
- BEYOND PRINTING - COMMUNICATING SCIENCE

- SEISMOLOGY FOR NON-SEISMOLOGISTS
- LABORATORY ROCK TESTING AND TECTONICS
- PUBLICATION OF RESEARCH DATA RELATED TO SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES IN THE GEOSCIENCES
- APPLIED GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS AND GLOBAL GEOCHEMICAL BASELINES
- THE LAST MILE - DISASTER RISK MITIGATION, RISK AND EARLY WARNING COMMUNICATION
- INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE ON OCEAN BOTTOM AND AMPHIBIAN EXPERIMENT SEISMOLOGICAL DATA
- COASTAL HYDROLOGY