About InterPore Mexico

Mission

The main mission is to establish and act as a national platform for linking specialists from academia and industry working in areas related to porous media.

Particular goals

• Provide a national forum to promote the exchange of ideas and experiences to improve research in porous media and its application

• Identify issues of national interest related to porous media in order to propose solutions

• Promote the importance of topics related to the study of porous media

• Stimulate the creation and strengthening of multidisciplinary research groups

• Identify sources of public and private funding for collaborative research among members of the Chapter

• Facilitate training and human resource development

Steering Committee

• Chair: Graciela Herrera-Zamarrón, Geophysics Institute, UNAM
• Vice Chair: Eric Morales-Casique, Geology Institute, UNAM
• Secretary: Martín A. Díaz-Viera, Mexican Petroleum Institute

Activities

• Conduct an annual meeting of Mexican Chapter

• Identify national companies whose processes involving porous media problems

• Make a register of specialists linked with porous media problems

• Promote roundtables to define strategic areas and issues of national interest

• Create a web page and establish mechanisms for contact and exchange

• Set on the Chapter’s website a software and bibliography repository to share

• Invite people from industry to present the problems of interest

• Conduct workshops with the participation of members and guests

• Use mass media and forums to inform about Mexican Chapter and InterPore

• Organize short courses

• Make a list of courses related to porous media imparted in Mexican institutions