Dear InterPore colleagues,

InterPore2023 starts this weekend! With an exciting program (download the pdf!), good weather on the way, and some photos of Edinburgh to whet your palate (thanks, Leslie!), all that is left for you is to simply enjoy!

Also in today’s newsletter: A follow-up on the exciting announcement on the establishment of InterPore’s own scientific journal. Find out who is behind this initiative below.

Don’t forget the short survey (follow the link or use the QR code)!

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

Registration for InterPore2023 is now open!

Digital Content

Because we cannot be all of the places all of the time, all presenters at InterPore2023 can upload digital content into Whova for anytime viewing by any of our participants. This includes digital posters and pre-recorded presentations. All content is available for viewing from the Online section of the Agenda in Whova.

Detailed instructions on using Whova can be found on the Whova Online Conference Platform page on the conference website.

Conference Check-in

Check-in for the conference will begin at 8:00 am on Monday, 22 May, at the Edinburgh International Conference Center. Early check-in will be available on Sunday, 21 May at the Leonardo Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket from 12:00 – 6:00 pm. To facilitate the check-in, you will need your registration ticket with the QR code. You can retrieve your ticket from the Conference website under My Ticket from the My Conference page. You can print the ticket or save the PDF to your mobile device.

Conference Program

The InterPore2023 Conference Program is available in digital format. In it you will find information about the full conference program, as well as information on lecturers, awards, exhibitors, the InterPore society and our host city, Edinburgh. We hope you’ll find it informative and worth reading! Please note that any changes to the program will be reflected in Whova.

Energy Transition Event – Slides are available

During a lunch forum, a panel of experts will engage in a discussion with the participants regarding the current urgent research needs in various energy transition technologies and methodologies.

We invite all participants to go through the slides and pose any questions they have via the forum’s Whova Q&A. The questions will be will be discussed during the lunch forum on Tuesday.

Slides from our panelists can be found here:

• Onno van Kessel, Shell, Energy Transition and Porous Media: An industrial megaproject perspective
• Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto, Electrochemical devices for hydrogen production and energy production
• Michelle Bentham, British Geological Survey, Geothermal Energy
• Martin Blunt, Imperial College, Research needs in gas storage
• Lynn Orr, Stanford University CCUS: What else do we need for deployment at large scale?

Satellite Short Courses

Still interested in joining one of our half-day satellite short courses?

We currently have space available in the following courses:

• Short Course #3: Digital porous media: combining open data, flow simulation and machine learning (Friday, 26 May, 9:00-12:00)

• Short Course #4: Advanced sorption characterisation of porous materials: dynamic gravimetric sorption and inverse gas chromatography

(Friday, 26 May, 13:00-16:00)

Please click here for more information and to register.

For assistance or any questions, please contact Margaret Dieter.

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This Summer – The InterPore Journal

For those of you who were paying attention to the March 24th newsletter, or at least are like me and like to read most things from start to finish, you may have noticed the blurb about the planned InterPore Journal. For the rest of you who may have missed it, well, some more information about this exciting development is well overdue!

First things first – after years of pondering it, InterPore has now decided to move forward and start their own scientific journal. The name of this journal will be “InterPore Journal” and our goal is to become the main destination for publishing high-quality research on a wide range of multidisciplinary multiscale topics related to porous media science and technology. We hope that this journal will become a focal point for all porous media scientists and engineers worldwide – where members and nonmembers can share their findings and questions.

The Journal will be an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, entirely published and owned by InterPore. We are planning on a wide range of articles, which include but are not limited to the following: Original Research Papers, Technical Notes, Review Articles, Open Datasets and Source Codes, Letters to the Editor, Commentaries, Short Communications, and Opinion pieces.

The Editor-in-Chief of this journal is Nima Shokri, whom many of you may already know. Our Board of Editors will be composed of the following people: Ryan T. Armstrong, Branko Bijeljic, Rien van Genuchten, Rainer Helmig, Patrick Huber, Signe Kjelstrup, Dani Or, Shuyo Sun, and Dorthe Wildenschild. In addition, we will also have a Committee on Publication Ethics who will also be members of the Journal’s Editorial Board. These members are: Sahar Bakhshian, Ran Holtzman, Helge Hellevang and Philippe Coussot.

I am sure that you will also hear about this journal at the upcoming InterPore Conference in Edinburgh and I, too, aim to keep you regularly updated. In the meantime, if you have any questions regarding this journal or want to know how to submit your work, you can contact me at Laura.Lenz@InterPore.org.

Laura Lenz, Managing Editor, InterPore Journal

Share Your Thoughts: InterPore Strategic Planning Survey

Our Strategic Planning Survey is now underway. If you have not already, please complete this short survey to assist us in strategic planning. The survey should take only a few minutes, and the responses are anonymous.

You may also access the survey via the following QR code:

National Chapter News

Creation of the Japan InterPore Chapter

We are pleased to announce the creation of the Japan InterPore Chapter. They will host their Kick-off Meeting at the Japan Thermal Engineering Conference in October 2023. Many thanks to Akira Nakayama, who has played a key role in this effort. We are excited to welcome them to this community and look forward to sharing more updates soon!

China InterPore Meeting

5-7 July 2023, Qingdao, China

The 6th International Conference on Digital Core Analysis & the 2023 China InterPore Conference on Porous Media will take place in Qingdao, Shandong, China, 5-7 July 2023. The purpose of this workshop is to communicate the latest progress and achievements on fluid flow in porous media research.

View the full invitation here and visit the China InterPore Chapter website to stay up to date on more details!

Australia Chapter Webinar

7 June 2023, online

As part of the webinar series organized by the Australia InterPore Chapter, Professor Yu-Shu Wu, Colorado School of Mines, US will give an online presentation entitled Physical Processes and Modeling Studies of CO2 Storage in Subsurface Formations.

When: 4:30 – 5:30pm (Sydney Time), 7 June 2023
Where: MS Teams (Click here to join the meeting)

Short Course: Linear Poro-Elasticity – From Quasi-Static Consolidation to Acoustic Waves

Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Steeb, Institute of Applied Mechanics, University of Stuttgart
Duration: 13.75 hours total (2.75 hours per week)
Time: from 1:15 to – 4pm CEST
Location: Online
Dates: The course will take place from 12 June through 10 July 2023 on the following dates:

Monday, 12 June 2023 (1:15 to – 4pm CEST)
Monday, 19 June 2023 (1:15 to – 4pm CEST)
Monday, 26 June 2023 (1:15 to – 4pm CEST)
Monday, 03 July 2023 (1:15 to – 4pm CEST)
Monday, 10 July 2023 (1:15 to – 4pm CEST)

more info

Webinar Recording Now Available: Underground H2 Storage

A big thank you to everyone who joined us for last week’s webinar with Karin de Borst, Shell Global Solutions International B.V., titled “Underground H2 storage – enabling a H2 economy at scale.”

For those who missed out, you can view a recording of the session here.

Visit our InterPore Academy page for more details on this and other upcoming events!

Cryspom VIII

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.

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PhD

• PhD on Fault stability and induced seismicity under cyclic injection and production of H2. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
• PhD on Modelling of coupled THMC processes and assessment of long-term caprock integrity. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Post-doc

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Rock Physics, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Seismic Interferometry, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK

(Assistant/associate) Prof

• Research Associate – Non-invasive imaging of porous media with x-ray computed tomography. Institute for Bio-Geosciences, Jülich Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany

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