Dear InterPore colleagues,

Very special attention to the 50th edition of the Porous Media Tea Time Talk! Of course to the live edition next week, but also to all the preceding 49 editions still available through the PMTTT Youtube Channel. Congratulations to the entire PMTTT team with this impressive accomplishment. A wealth of information online.

There is more online education coming up: Inge Berre’s webinar and the first of its kind InterPore Porous Media course. Good ol’ in-person meetings are coming up as well, including chapter meetings and InterPore2024.

I acknowledge that all these fascinating events do keep you away from doing research yourself. If you did get to it and got it published (or soon in the InterPore Journal), make sure you promote your work through the Newsletter as well!

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

Call for submitting abstracts

Abstract submission starts 2 Oct !

WeChat

Since 2020, the Local Organizing Committee in Qingdao has been running the official InterPore WeChat account, sharing information on InterPore events with its subscribers. WeChat is a public social media platform which can push important content and information. LOC member Shuaishi Fu, Senior Lab Technologist at the University of Petroleum (East China), will be running the InterPore account and keeping you abreast of all the important news and information on InterPore2024. Join the over 600 followers from around the world by scanning the QR code below in the WeChat app, available for Apple and Android.

Invited speakers

All invited speakers for InterPore2024 have confirmed their participation. Starting with the next Newsletter, we will highlight the invited speakers one-by-one. Here is the a quick overview of the entire group!

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2023

Professor Adrian Bejan, from Duke University, USA continues to successfully present his award winning lecture, Vascular materials: Predicting Design Evolution, at various universities and institutions around the world.

His next presentations include the Politecnico de Torino, Italy (12th Constructal Law Conference—Freedom, Design and Evolution) on September 22nd; and the Journées d’Etude des Milieux Poreux (JEMP2023), France, on October 17th. In December he will present his lecture at the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (India), during the ISHMT Golden Jubilee Lecture Series.

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2024

Prof. Ruben Juanes
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Prof. Juanes is the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer of 2024.

As the winner of this year’s distinguished award, Prof. Ruben Juanes will be giving one of his two lectures at selected institutions. Hosts may select one of two options:

Option A: Fluids, Fingers, Fractures and Fractals: Patterns in Porous Media

Option B: Man-made Earthquakes and the Energy Transition

If your university/institution is interested in hosting Prof. Juanes, please download and fill out the application form and send it to Sandra Bartsch.

Prof. Juanes and InterPore look forward to hearing from you!

Call for nominations for the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2025: the InterPore Foundation is now accepting nominations for this prestigious award for 2025. For more information on the nomination procedure, visit our website.

Cooperation opportunities with EAGE

InterPore and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) are honored to collaborate as Associated Societies in the promotion and development of porous media-related topics in the geoscience and engineering fields. In this regard, the members of both organizations can benefit from knowledge exchange and networking opportunities by attending each other’s conferences, workshops and education offerings, as well as by accessing an extended group of technical experts from industry and academia through the EAGE Distinguished Lecturer Program and InterPore Academy Webinar Series. Additional cooperation opportunities are in progress, so stay tuned to hear more about them!

The various roles a journal has

You may be familiar with the journal roles of Editor-in-Chief (EIC) and Reviewers, and with what each does, but are you familiar with the other roles that InterPore Journal has?

To start, we have ten Editors, who are experts in various porous media topics, and act as advisors to the EIC and as ambassadors. As an advisor, they identify & suggest new topics for special or themed issues and commission new articles. As an ambassador, they represent the Journal at various events and spread the word amongst their colleagues. They are also responsible for managing the review process alongside the EIC.

The four members of our Committee on Publication Ethics are there to advise all others on matters with an ethical background. This includes allegations of misconduct and questions or complaints regarding the processes this journal follows.

Our Editorial Board is composed of 34 experts within various porous media fields, and whom the EIC and Board of Editors rely upon as scientific advisors in their focus area. They assist with the vital role of peer review, and act as ambassadors by promoting the Journal amongst their networks and colleagues.

Finally, we have the Managing Editor who is basically the glue holding everything together. This includes managing the day-to-day administrative activities, keeping the website up to date, assisting with problems, and overseeing the entire production process up until and beyond publication of each issue.

Chapter News

WAIC Chapter Meeting

Abstract submission deadline has been extended to 30 September

The West Africa InterPore Chapter will hold its annual meeting & symposium on 27-28 October 2023.

For the first edition of its annual meeting, WAIC invites researchers and industry professionals to submit abstracts from now until 30 September. This symposium aims to foster interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations among researchers, engineers, and industry stakeholders to address the pressing challenges associated with mining activities in Africa, particularly the critical issue of mining waste management.

Visit the West Africa InterPore Chapter Meeting & Symposium page to learn more and submit your abstract.

France InterPore Chapter Meeting

The 16th edition of JEMP (Journées d’Etudes des Milieux Poreux) – the InterPore France Chapter conference on porous media – will be held at IFP Energie nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison (near Paris) from 17 to 19 October 2023.

The discussions, mostly interdisciplinary, involve fundamental topics such as applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and process engineering. The scientific research carried out in these domains is relevant in several major areas related to environmental and societal needs: energy storage, pollution abatement, renewable energies, agri-food and health.

The deadline to take advantage of Early Bird rates and apply for the Thesis Award is 15 September.

Click here for more details.

We are proudly inviting you to the 50th Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) next Tuesday, 26 September at 15:00 CET via live YouTube stream.

For this milestone, the PorousMediaTTT team is honored to host Hang Deng and Amir Pahlavan in the studio to hear their excellent scientific talks and their reflection on their academic path and experiences.

Upcoming Webinar with Inga Berre on 10 October

First Course of the IP Academy Study Plan in Porous Media

13 November to 4 December

PORE 1-1 Fundamentals of porous media structure and characterization

Registration is now open for the first installation of the InterPore Academy Study Plan in Porous Media “PORE 1-1 Fundamentals of porous media structure and characterization.”

The course will take place on Mondays from 13 November to 4 December 2023.

Join lecturers Ryan Armstrong (UNSW Sydney, Australia), Martin J. Blunt (Imperial College, UK), Maša Prodanović (University of Texas Austin, USA), and Catherine Spurin (Stanford University, USA) as they explore imaging of porous media and image processing, quantification of pore-scale images, single phase transport, and multiphase flow.

Please note, these renowned experts will be joining from across the globe. Therefore, lecture times will vary weekly to accommodate time zone changes. Recordings will be made available for participants that are unable to attend live.

Click here for more details and to register!

Call for 2024 InterPore Award for Porous Media Research Nominations

The InterPore Award for Porous Media Research is given to mid-career researchers in recognition of outstanding research in general porous media, with emphasis on research conducted over the past five years. Nominees should have a maximum of 12 years research experience after completing their PhD.

The awardee will receive a grant of 1,000 € towards participation at InterPore2024 and an InterPore Rosette.

Details on the requirements and nomination process can be found on our website.

Nomination deadline is 01 November 2023. Please nominate a worthy recipient!

Symposium on Wettability and Porous Media

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 changes, and state-of-the-art core preservation and restoration techniques to improve quality of laboratory data.

For more information, please visit their website.

Promote your Publication

InterPore Members, do you want to promote your publication to the community? If so, please submit your highlight to newsletter@InterPore.org. Note that we will not review the entries nor does InterPore endorse the published work. Furthermore, we publish on a “submitted first, published first” basis. The highlighted publication should be no older than 6 months (available online).

The highlight should be short (500 characters) and contain an illustration. Please note that we offer this opportunity exclusively to InterPore members. If you would like to become a member, please have a look here.

Postdoctoral

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist position focusing on mineral carbonation in natural basalt reservoirs, Earth Institute: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University in the City of New York, USA

If you have a job opening in your institute and would like to promote it internationally, please send the description and weblink or PDF to newsletter@interpore.org, and we’ll be happy to add it to the list.