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If you can’t see this message, {readonline}click here{/readonline}All past FlashNews and Newsletters are online here: E-Newsletter Your last chance to submit abstracts for InterPore2024 has arrived! Submissions for posters and online presentations will be accepted until midnight (Pacific Time) this Friday, 19 April. Submit now! Poster presenters Poster presenters who have not yet registered must

17-19 July 2024, Stuttgart, Germany SFB 1313 offers a DuMuX Short Course, organized by its Integrated Research Training Group “Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media IRTG-IMPM”. The course aims at introducing the open-source simulator and research code DuMux (DUNE for Multi-{Phase, Component, Scale, Physics, …} flow and transport in porous media). More information and registration

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10-12 July 2024, Bozeman, Montana, USA Center for Biofilm Engineering is pleased to continue its program to encourage the participation of outstanding non-MSU biofilm investigators at its annual Montana Biofilm Science and Technology Meeting. Targeting postdoctoral researchers and newly hired faculty, up to two investigators will be invited to present their research at our upcoming

17-21 June 2024, Krakow, Poland CCS research groups at the University of Oslo (Norway) and AGH University of Krakow (Poland) invite you to attend their Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Summer School. The CCS school is primarily aimed at PhDs but is also open for MSc students and postdoctoral researchers. Participants must submit an online

Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 11:00 am–12:00 pm (UTC+01.00: Amsterdam) Professor Lyesse Laloui is the Director of Soil Mechanics Laboratory and the Civil Engineering Section, EPFL, Switzerland. He also is honorary director of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in China. Among the non-conventional soil consolidation techniques, bio-mineralisation has been a central focus of

For all ISC Members and their networks: If you are an early-career Principal Investigator currently on parental leave, or will soon be in parental leave, you can apply to the International Brain Research Organization’s Parenthood Grant, and have the chance to obtain supplemental laboratory funding. The deadline for application is 15 March. More information on

10-21 June 2024, Cargèse, Corsica, France Linking life-supporting functions of the subsurface across disciplines: The 6th Cargèse summer school will be jointly organized by CNRS, NSF, the university of Rennes and the University of Oslo. It will take place from 10-21 June 2024 at the Cargese Institute, Corsica, France. The summer school will provide high-level

Robert Zimmerman and Adriana Paluszny of Imperial College would like to inform the InterPore community of the publication of their new book, Fluid Flow in Fractured Rocks. This book is intended for researchers and students who are interested in hydrogeology, hydrology, water resources, structural geology, reservoir engineering, underground waste disposal, or other fields that involve

29 May – 1 June 2024, Tashkent, Uzbekistan   The 15th ICTEA Conference will be held this year in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The deadline for abstract submission is fast approaching: 28 February 2024. Papers can be presented online or in-person.

30 Sept – 3 Oct 2024, Tucson, Arizona, USA   A call for abstracts for the 25th Biennal Conference – Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR). The CMWR was created in 1976 and has since been held biennially alternating between locations in North America and Europe. CMWR is dedicated to nurturing and promoting cutting-edge interdisciplinary

The ISC is looking forward to an exciting year, with numerous opportunities for Members to contribute to critical global science-policy work in the multilateral space, including United Nations (UN) processes. The ISC secretariat has identified 20 priority topics on which the ISC will be called upon to provide authoritative inputs in 2024, which will be

6-7 February 2024, Congress Center Ramstein, Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany   Math2Market is excited to invite you to their GeoDict Innovation Conference 2024, a new concept of the long-established GeoDict User Meeting. This new concept is focused on tailored, specific digital workflows, to help you in shaping the future of material analysis, design, and development. For more

The scouting program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation offers the opportunity of postdoctoral fellowships to excellent candidates in the lab of a nominating scout without undergoing the usually time-consuming application procedure. Prof. Evangelos Tsotsas is such a “scout” and looking for an adequate candidate for a research stay of up to two years with

6-7 February 2024, Congress Center Ramstein, Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany Math2Market is excited to invite you to our GeoDict Innovation Conference 2024, a new concept of the long-established GeoDict User Meeting. This new concept is focused on tailored, specific digital workflows, to help you in shaping the future of material analysis, design, and development. For more details

10-13 June 2024, in Oslo, Norway The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) will host its 85th Annual Conference and Exhibition on 10-13 June 2024, in Oslo, Norway. Under the theme “Technology and talent for a secure and sustainable energy future”, the event’s Technical Programme is expected to address topics ranging from gas &

24-27 June 2024 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA The Water Science Conference (WaterSciCon) brings the water community together every two years to share research, collaborate, and plan for the future. WaterSciCon 2024 will be held the week of 23 June 2024 in St. Paul, Minnesota. WaterSciCon advances hydrology and related global convergent science issues and

18-21 March 2024, Magdeburg, Germany and online The course “Drying – Fundamentals and Applications” has been offered successfully by Prof. Evangelos Tsotsas and his team for 10 years on an annual basis. It is designed for people from various backgrounds (engineers, chemists, technologists, researchers) and from different industries (chemicals, food, pharmaceutics, materials) who need to

14-19 April, Vienna, Austria We would like to cordially invite you to submit abstracts to the following session at the next European Geosciences Union general assembly (14-19 April 2024): ERE3.1 – Secure subsurface storage for future energy systems Storage of energy (e.g., hydrogen, heat) and carbon dioxide in subsurface geological formations is of key importance

All ISC Member organizations are invited to participate in a one-day Science Filmmaking workshop on 1 April as part of the 2024 Ethnografilm Festival in Paris. The workshop aims to empower scientists to create short films highlighting their own research. Following the workshop, participants will work on creating a short film about their research throughout

The International Resource Panel is seeking to recruit leading scientists with policy-relevant expertise, particularly in the development and implementation of science-based solutions for the sustainable management of natural resources and the achievement of the SDGs. Experts are expected to contribute to the development of science-based and policy-relevant assessments and formulate effective policy options and recommendations

5-7 December 2023, Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) Join the National Ground Water Association in celebrating 75 years of excellence during Groundwater Week 2023. This annual event provides a unique opportunity for professionals from all sectors of the groundwater industry to come together to exchange knowledge, share ideas, and learn about the latest advancements in science

Join the National Ground Water Association in celebrating 75 years of excellence during Groundwater Week 2023 December 5-7 in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA). This annual event provides a unique opportunity for professionals from all sectors of the groundwater industry to come together to exchange knowledge, share ideas, and learn about the latest advancements in science

23-25 October 2023, Laramie, Wyoming, USA The 15th International Symposium on Wettability and Porous Media will be held 23-25 October 2023 in Laramie, Wyoming. The symposium will focus on descriptions, measurements, and models of reservoir wettability, pore-scale models of flow and wettability properties in permeable media, alterations of wettability and physical mechanisms that underlie these

The ISC is pleased to share the 2023 call for nominations to the ISC Fellowship. ISC Fellows are individuals of high scientific and public standing who serve as experts for the ISC’s governance, scientific initiatives and partnerships, and support the ISC in its mission to be the global voice for science by amplifying this voice

11-15 December 2023, San Francisco, USA We would like to invite you to the session: NS015. Uncertainty and Risk Management for Underground Hydrogen Storage. The invited speakers are: Maartje Boon (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Sam Quan Xie (Curtin University, Australia) Session description: Hydrogen is an attractive energy carrier because it can be stored in large-scale

5-6 October 2023, Kaiserslautern, Germany The workshop offers a unique opportunity to meet with leading scientists in the field of process engineering in a small group and to gain an overview of new developments. Our concern is to provide companies with impulses from new scientific trends as well as to reflect the needs of industry

19-22 June 2023, Bordeaux, France The main objectives of the 11th Conference of the International Marangoni Association (IMA11) are to provide opportunities for scientists and engineers, working on interfacial fluid dynamics and processes, to exchange their knowledge and to discuss recent advances in the field. For more information, please visit their website.

5-7 July 2023, Dresden, Germany Join the 12th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams MetFoam in Dresden. The MetFoam conference series is the largest cross-disciplinary, international technical meeting focused exclusively on the production methods, properties, and applications of functional and lightweight porous/cellular metallic materials. After the last editions in China and the USA,

19-22 June 2023, Bergen, Norway The study of geophysical systems at all scales, whether from a scientific or technological perspective, calls for sophisticated mathematical modeling, efficient computational methods, and pervasive integration with data. This effort is fundamentally interdisciplinary. This conference aims to stimulate the exchange of ideas among geoscientific modelers, applied mathematicians, engineers, and other

2023 GSE Distinguished Scientist and Emerging Scientist Awards Gas Science and Engineering is currently seeking nominations for its 2023 GSE Distinguished Scientist and Emerging Scientist Investigator Awards. These awards are granted to senior and early career independent researchers who achieved considerable success in gas science and engineering research. Please find more info on their website.

13-15 June, 2023, Ghent, Belgium The 8th international workshop on Crystallization in Porous Media (Cryspom VIII) will be held from 13-15 June in Ghent, Belgium and brings together researchers from geoengineering, geology, physics, chemistry, mechanics and conservation interested in crystal nucleation, growth and transport in porous media and its related consequences.

3-5 July 2023, Bari, Italy Numerical Analysis, Porous Media, and Water Resources: A Fruitful Contamination This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bridge the gap between various fields such as geosciences, hydrology, soil science, ecology, applied mathematics, and numerical analysis. We invite presentations of innovative numerical methods and applications related to water resources management, poromechanics, contaminant and

7-10 November 2023, Sorrento, Italy and Acoustic Valley Institute, Changshu, China The 7th Symposium on Acoustics of Poroelastic Materials (SAPEM) will be held simultaneously in China and Italy (each day of the conference, half a day will be devoted to presentations which will be broadcast in both places, the other half-day will be dedicated to

14-16 November 2023, Troyes, France The Second International DECOVALEX Symposium on Coupled Processes in Radioactive Waste Disposal and Subsurface Engineering Applications invites you to the beautiful city of Troyes, France, 14-16 November 2023. This in-person symposium is jointly hosted by ANDRA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the DECOVALEX project – an international collaboration for advancing

4-7 July 2023, Delft, Netherlands The 2nd International Summer School on Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS) will be held in Delft this year between 4-7 July. The summer school will be hybrid, and will cover many aspects of the UHS including: Successful experiences and under development sites (commercial and pilot) for UHS Policy, Regulating & Licensing

28 April 2023, Imperial College London and online   The Towards Net Zero Seminar, the Transition to Zero Pollution Initiative, and the Imperial Policy Forum at Imperial College London Invite you to join in-person and online for a special event and networking lunch. Meet the authors to discuss the recently published paper in Nature Reviews

19-21 April 2023, Warwick, UK The School of Engineering of the University of Warwick is proud to host the 2023 Annual Conference of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics. For more information, please visit their website.

15-25 August 2023, Cargèse, Corsica, France The EU-funded project CoPerMix is organizing a summer school in Cargèse, Corsica, France. It will include sessions on: Fluid deformation kinematics The architecture of mixtures Mixing in porous media Mixing and phase transitions/chemical conversion Mixing in and by granular media and suspensions Living matter and mixing Mixing and exhalations

4-7 July 2023, Delft, Netherlands The 2nd International Summer School on UHS will be held in Delft this year between 4-7 July. The summer school will be hybrid, and will cover many aspects of the UHS including: Successful experiences and under development sites (commercial and pilot) for UHS Policy, Regulating & Licensing of UHS Techno-economics

5-7 December, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Join the National Ground Water Association in celebrating 75 years of excellence during Groundwater Week 2023. This annual event provides a unique opportunity for professionals from all sectors of the groundwater industry to come together to exchange knowledge, share ideas, and learn about the latest advancements in science and

While we celebrate the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD), it is important to recognise the contribution basic science can make to the achieve sustainable development. Within InterPore much of our efforts are focused on innovations in energy, the environment, and health. Our research clearly supports achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

11 – 13 October, 2023, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA The 15th International Symposium on Wettability and Porous Media will focus on descriptions, measurements, and models of reservoir wettability, pore-scale models of flow and wettability properties in permeable media, alterations of wettability and physical mechanisms that underlie these changes, and state-of-the-art core preservation and

‌Congratulations to Bo Guo, the chair of the Membership Committee of InterPore, on receiving the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Bo is an Assistant Professor of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona. The CAREER project will study microscale processes controlling field-scale transport of surface-active contaminants, such as PFAS and colloids, in soil

Deadline: 31 January 2023 The deadline for applications for the 2023 Travel Award has been extended to 31 January 2023. This award will be given to two junior scientists, encouraging them to present their latest research at academic conferences, honoring their excellence and contribution in the field of energy and related research. The winners will

9-13 January 2023, Orléans, France The University of Orléans in France is organizing the Blended Intensive Program (BIP) – short courses organized at the European level – on Digital Environmental Science. The program is intended for ~30 Master or PhD students. Students receive 3 ECTS for their attendance. The training is free of charge, and

International Science Council’s Publication on Research Gaps to Achieve SDGs by 2030 We would like to draw your attention to the following publication by the ISC. “A synthesis of research gaps for science to enable societies to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030” This publication looks at identifying research topics of particular importance to

Join more than 24 million podcast listeners of the ISC podcasts. There are three seasons with plenty of discussions on topics related to advancing science as a global public good. There are a number of series of interesting episodes on women in science, diversity in science, combating racism in science and democratizing knowledge and access

20-21 October 2022, (Hybrid) Kyushu University, Fukuoka City, Japan The 8th International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Sciences (IEICES 2022) brings together academics, researchers and students to share cutting-edge development in the fields of materials, energy and environmental engineering & sciences. Topics of Interest:   Aerospace Engineering Civil Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering

6 – 8 July 2022, Utrecht, Netherlands The registration for the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X) has been opened. Given the imminent lifting of virtually all Covid-related restrictions in the Netherlands, the SaltMech X Organizing Committee is confident that a physical, on-site conference will be possible in July and looks

7-8 June, 2022, IIT Hyderabad, India Welcome to the International Symposium on Nonlocal Mechanics Approaches for Modeling Localized Deformations (NMAMLD) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Hyderabad, India. The purpose of the symposium is to bring together experts from the mathematical, computational, scientific, and engineering communities who work with nonlocal models in order to

Welcome to the Geotechnical Engineering Webinars, held by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Shiraz University. The series are held in May and June and include Dr. Pooneh Maghoul (Canada), Prof. Cristina Jommi (Netherlands), Prof. Nasser Khalili (Australia), Prof. Olivier Cuisinier (France) and Prof. Rien van Genuchten (Brazil). Please find the full list

An invitation from our colleagues from Oxford, Twente and Vienna Hello colleagues, We write to call your attention to the upcoming CISM-IUTAM Summer School on “Convection and Deformation in Porous Media”, which will be held this summer in Udine, Italy (11-15 July 2022). The course will cover state-of-the-art modelling, simulation, and experimental techniques for geophysical,

A proposal for a benchmark on reactive multiphase flow in porous media at the Darcy scale has been published. The Benchmark was written to address several challenges commonly met in applications: Robust coupling of chemical reactions with multiphase flow in porous media, Phase behaviour coupling with equilibrium reactions, Conservative treatment of solid phase dissolution and

Everyone is invited to a brand new short course covering theory and practical implementation of fluid and thermal couplings in particulate systems with Yade software. The course will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands from 20 – 22 June 2022, where participants will learn hands-on with Robert Caulk and Bruno Chareyre. More information is available at

Jaime Gómez-Hernández, chair of local organizing committee of InterPore2019 in Valencia, Spain, has been selected as the 2022 Pioneers in Groundwater Award winner. The Pioneers in Groundwater Award recognizes and honors an individual with pioneering contributions in the teaching, research, and/or practice of groundwater science and engineering. Only one award is given per year. Membership

Frontiers in Water and Frontiers in Physics are launching a new topic: Nonequilibrium Multiphase and Reactive Flows in Porous and Granular Materials Topic editor: Ran Holtzman This collection will gather papers aiming to model, understand, predict, and even control multiphase and reactive flows, where nonequilibrium often prevails leading to instabilities, the emergence of complex patterns

Oil & Gas Science and Technology (OGST), an academic journal headed by IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), is taking on a new identity to become Science and Technology for Energy Transition (STET). Its aim is to become a genuine forum for exchange and sharing of scientific findings related to an efficient and sustainable energy transition in

19-23 June 2022, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland The XXIV International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2022) will be held in Poland. The conference is planned as an in-person event. Submissions are welcomed, related to the use of computer methods in modeling of water flow and related phenomena (mass and energy

A third call for proposals is open from 9 March to 17 April 2022 to get free of charge access to top EPOS-NL research facilities in the Netherlands, notably: the ESL High Pressure and Temperature (HPT) Lab at Utrecht University the Petrophysics Lab (DPL) at Delft University of Technology the Multi-scale Imaging and Tomography (MINT)

6 – 8 July 2022, Utrecht, The Netherlands The registration for the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X) has been opened. Given the imminent lifting of virtually all Covid-related restrictions in the Netherlands, the SaltMech X Organizing Committee is confident that a physical, on-site conference will be possible in July and

Are you interested in pursuing a Master’s degree and boosting your career? If you have an engineering or geoscience background, strong maths, or a passion for computation, applications are currently being accepted for the Geo-Energy with Machine Learning and Data Science MSc. It’s a new programme for 2022 entry, where you’ll study at Imperial College

17-20 May, 2022, Politecnico di Torino, Italy The conference is aimed at presenting and discussing cutting-edge issues about modeling and development of numerical tools for porous fractured media simulations. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Flow in fracture networks; Influence of roughness inside the fractures; Flow in fractured porous media; Up-scaling and

13-16 September 2022, Athens, Greece The 14th European Fluid Mechanics Conference (EFMC14)focusing on recent advances and future trends in fluid mechanics, bringing together the European fluid mechanics community for extensive discussion and networking opportunities, especially after such a long period of lockdowns and restrictions in meeting physically. Plenary lectures, keynote lectures, mini symposia, workshops and

11-14 July 2022, Delft, The Netherlands The department of geoscience & engineering of TU Delft is organizing the 1st international summer school on Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS). Lectures will be given by a broad range of speakers including leading academic scientists, industrial experts as well as colleagues from the policy sector and EU funding agencies.

29 August – 2 September 2022 French Conference on Mechanics 2022 Session 28: Porous Media: transport, microstructural evolution, multi-physics coupling and instabilities Conveners : Henri Bertin, Giulio Sciarra, Benoit Rousseau, Gérard Vignoles This session aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers to present recent scientific advances in the study of the behavior of porous

The ISC has been monitoring the case of Iranian-Swedish scholar Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali who was sentenced to death by Iranian authorities in 2017 based on allegations that he had provided intelligence to Israeli authorities. Djalali has repeatedly denied these allegations and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for his immediate release in 2017.

25 June 2022, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA The Damage Mechanics Challenge Workshop is held in conjunction with the 56th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. The purpose of this exercise is to: compare computational approaches on damage evolution for predicting fracture behavior of 3D printed model rock; identify the information provided by the different simulation approaches

Congratulations to the Stuttgart Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1313 on “Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media – Flow, Transport and Deformation“. On 24 November 2021, the German Research Foundation DFG decided to fund SFB 1313 of the University of Stuttgart for another four years. The overall goal of SFB 1313 is to get a fundamental

20-24 June 2022, Flatrock, NC, USA The Progressive Failure of Brittle Rocks is a 5-day, NSF-sponsored, GSA Penrose Conference dedicated to bringing together – in person – scientists from Rock Physics, Surface Processes, Soil Science, Stone Heritage, Critical Zone Sciences, Planetary Sciences and Geoengineering disciplines in order to open new doors to a myriad of

Congratulations to Dr. Eduardo Abreu, Chair of the Brazilian InterPore Chapter & invited speaker of InterPore2022, for being awarded the 2021 Zeferino Vaz Academic Recognition Award for excellence & academic achievements in the area of applied mathematics. Eduardo is Associate Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics at Unicamp in the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and

8-10 December, INRA Paris, France Workshop SITRAM21: Advances in the SImulation of reactive flow and TRAnsport in porous Media. The goal of the workshop is to present recent advances in both modeling and simulation for coupled transport and geochemistry in subsurface flow. Topics of interest include: Reactive multi-phase flow; Impact of reactions on mechanics (changes

We would like to express our gratitude to the InterPore members, and the porous media community in general, for supporting the Album of Porous Media Structure and Dynamics. The submission deadline was 15 August, and we received more than 120 entries from more than 280 authors covering a broad range of porous media topics. We

The GeoDict 2022 Workshops will take place online from 4-8 October 2021, during the course of the 10th GeoDict User Meeting. The online event will bring together a range of GeoDict users with many varying interests with the aim of sharing experiences and inspiring each other in new scientific directions. The Workshops are aimed at

Surface Measurement Systems is hosting a webinar for Tappi Nano Division – 7 September at 2 pm CEST (8 am US Eastern Time). Title: Understanding bulk and surface properties of complex solid-state materials through Vapor Sorption Techniques More information can be found here and here.

14-15 September 2021, online The first MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) Symposium will take place online from 14-15 September 2021. The event will bring together a range of MRST users with many varying interests with the aim of sharing experiences and inspiring each other in new scientific directions. The symposium will consist of several plenary

The 16th Chinese National Conference on Porous Flow Mechanics was held from 29 July to 1 August 2021 in Huludao city, organized by Liaoning Technical University. More than 300 participants attended this conference. Prof. Yangsheng Zhao and Prof. Zhangxing Chen both gave plenary speeches. In 7 parallel sessions, 31 invited presentations and 133 session presentations

6-8 July 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X) Launched in 1981, the SaltMech Conference series serves to exchange research findings and practical experiences regarding the mechanical behavior of rock salt in the context of safe use in mining, energy storage and waste disposal. Deadline abstract submission: Friday,

InterPore Managing Director, Prof. S. Majid Hassanizadeh, has been elected to the membership of Academia Europaea. The Academia Europaea (formed in 1988) is the pan-European academy of science, humanities and letters. The Academia has a membership of over 4000 eminent international scholars from all disciplines, nationalities and geographical locations, but with the majority from Europe.

LAST CALL for pictures!!! Don’t miss the chance to be part of the FIRST album exclusively dedicated to capture the beauty and complexity of porous media! The intent of the Album of Porous Media Structure and Dynamics, is to compile a collection of eye-catching state-of-the-art visualization of the different science and engineering aspects of porous

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 18.05.2021 at 15.00 CEST local time on our YouTube Channel. The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful Geoscience and Geoenergy webinars with the focus placed on

19 May 2021, 10:30-12:30 CEST Surface Measurement Systems is organizing a free workshop on DVS and iGC SEA for characterization of construction/building materials as well as related materials (such as polymers, clay, natural stone, wood, carbon fibre, graphene, etc). For more information, please refer to their website.

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 04.05.2021 at 10.30 CEST/ 9.30 BST local time on our YouTube Channel. The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successfulGeoscience and Geoenergy webinars with the focus placed

21 – 24 June 2021, online The next SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences takes place on June 21-24 this year. The meeting, organized by SIAM and the Department of Mathematics of Politecnico di Milano, Italy, is the flagship event of the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences (SIAG/GS). The event is

Call to the passionate community of porous media: please consider contributing to the first album exclusively dedicated to capture the beauty and complexity of porous media! The intent of the Album of Porous Media Structure and Dynamics, co-edited by Ezequiel Medici and Alejandro Otero, is to compile a collection of state-of-the-art visualization of the different

For our colleagues in the US: The US government has launched a contest with awards totaling $500,000 to come up with a new mask that is safer and/or more comfortable to wear. The deadline is 21 April, and more information can be found here.

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 6 April 2021 at 10.30 CEST/ 8.30 GMT local time on our YouTube Channel. The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successfulGeoscience and Geoenergy webinars with the

9-12 November 2021, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A mini-symposium on “Computational Modeling of Flow in Porous Media” will take place during the XLII Ibero-Latin-American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering (CILAMCE-2021) and the 3rd Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics PANACM 2021, 9-12 November 2021. The conference will operate in a hybrid fashion. If the

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 23 March at 15:00 am CEST local time on our YouTube Channel. The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful Geoscience and Geoenergy webinars with the focus

I am Pania Newell, a member of InterPore. My research is focused on understanding coupled processes in heterogeneous porous media across scales. I am excited to announce that along with two of my colleagues Lucy Zhang, and Kim Lewis, we started a podcast called “This Academic Life”, which is an academic podcast for educators and

On behalf of the 13 ARMA Student Chapters, I am happy to announce the first ARMA Student Design Competition. The competition, jointly organized by ARMA student chapters at the University of Kentucky and Virginia Tech, offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to test their knowledge, creativity, team-work, and problem-solving skills by exposing them to

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 9 March at 10:30 am CEST local time on our YouTube Channel. The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successfulGeoscience and Geoenergy webinars with the focus placed

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 23 February at 15:00 am CEST local time on our YouTube Channel. The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful Geoscience and Geoenergy webinars with the focus

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 26 January at 15.00 pm CEST local time on our YouTube Channel. The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful Geoscience and Geoenergy webinars with the focus

EGU John Dalton Medal Life-long active InterPore member Brian Berkowitz will be awarded with the John Dalton Medal during the next EGU meeting. The medal is awarded for distinguished research in hydrology reviewed as an Earth science. Congratulations! The InterPore community is growing and amongst the InterPore community, we have many very famous scientists… and

19–30 April 2021, Online Session: ERE4.2 Hydrogen for energy storage in the subsurface, from laboratory research to future low-carbon energy scenarios Conveners: Niklas Heinemann, Katriona Edlmann, Suzanne Hangx, Christopher Yeates (ECS) The use of hydrogen as a fossil fuel substitute opens a range of opportunities to decarbonise future energy systems in line with the international

InterPore member Masa Prodanovic (The University of Texas at Austin) and James McClure (Virginia Tech) shared an announcement. Reuse 3D data from the Digital Rocks Portal to create graphic, video, or 3D printed visualizations and compete for sponsored cash prizes up to $1,000 for US-based participants. All details are hereincluding videos and Python Notebooks from

InterPore member Philippe Coussot will be giving a seminar within the framework of the JNNFM seminar series entitled Progress in rheology and hydrodynamics allowed by NMR or MRI techniques of which half will focus on original applications in porous media. Abstract In modern fluid mechanics it has become common to attempt to observe internal flow

Welcome to PoreLab virtual gallery exhibition: “The Art of Porous Media”! Beauty can be found in the most ordinary of things. At PoreLab, the Porous Media Laboratory, we are lucky enough to work in a field in which one really does not need to look too hard to find aesthetically pleasing images. Everything is beautiful

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 17 November at 15:00 am CEST local time on our YouTube Channel. The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful Geoscience and Geoenergy webinars with the focus