Dear InterPore colleagues,

Exciting news in today’s Newsletter! Although it is unfortunate that InterPore2022 can’t go to
Qingdao, we did find a great alternative. Please find out more below.

We see so much progress in porous media science with brilliant achievements by so many individuals.
InterPore has the means to acknowledge such special achievements at various stages in one’s career.
Winning an InterPore award can be a great boost to early-career scientists, while the more seasoned
scientists also deserve recognition for the sometimes life-long contributions.

Please help us identify these great men and women. Check the item about InterPore awards, visit the
website for eligibility and fill in the required form.

Talking about great science, please check out the In Journals section and don’t forget to have a
look
at the available positions.

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore
News

As you have previously been made aware, current conditions and restrictions on gathering in China
preclude meeting in Qingdao next year. After careful consideration and much deliberation, we
are pleased to announce that the Executive Committee has selected Abu Dhabi as the new location
for InterPore2022. The original dates of 30 May – 02 June remain unchanged.

We look forward to being welcomed by our hosts, Prof. Mohamed Sassi and his team at Khalifa
University, and send a gracious thank you to all of the proposal teams for their work in putting
together last-minute bids.

We are excited about the plans and activities the LOC in Abu Dhabi is putting together and look
forward to sharing the details with you soon. More importantly, we look forward to seeing you,
learning with you and connecting with you once again! To those of you who may not be able to join us
in Abu Dhabi, InterPore2022 will remain a hybrid conference; we’ll have ample opportunities to
connect and will see you online!

Don’t
forget – abstract submission is open!

Help
us spread the word – a conference flyer to share with your peers
can be found here
(1.8 MB).

Local Organizing Committee

A new Local Organizing Committee (LOC) has been formed in Abu Dhabi. All LOC members are shown in
the
table below.

Invited speaker: Prof. Dominique Derome

Prof.
Dominique Derome, Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada), will give an invited talk
entitled Hysteresis
of mass transport in porous media, featuring a discussion on
the occurrence of hysteresis in different aspects of mass transport in porous media, including
contact angle of advancing and receding flow in capillaries, occurrence of capillary condensation
hysteresis at mesopore scale and hysteretic swelling of hygroscopic polymers upon sorption. The
lecture will highlight the relevance of considering hysteresis in computational modeling, namely
lattice Boltzmann and atomistic modeling.

Dominique Derome has been professor at the Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Université
de Sherbrooke, Canada since 2019, and holds a Canada Research Chair tier 1 in Multi-scale Building
Physics. She studies heat and mass transfer in the built environment, the related impacts on
durability of materials and on thermal comfort of its inhabitants. Her research proposes innovative
and multi-scale approaches of the highly coupled physical processes that occur in the built
environment, intensively integrating advanced computational and experimental methods. This
multidisciplinary research aims at developing solutions for a sustainable living environment,
resilient in the face of climate change.

For more info, please visit our website.

Kimberly-Clark
Distinguished Lectureship Spring 2022 European Tour

The Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2021, Professor Muhammad Sahimi, will be
making his lecture circuit through Europe in Spring 2022. Organizations have the opportunity to
choose from one of four topics of which Prof. Sahimi can address in detail during his visit:

• Use
  of wavelet transformations for characterization, modeling, and upscaling of porous media
• Multipoint geostatistical modeling of porous media
• Swelling and deformation of porous media
• Atomistic modeling of nanoporous membranes

It is not too late to get your application in to host Professor Sahimi at your institution! More
details on his lecture and how to apply can be found here.

Funding opportunities for short courses

If you’re interested in an online short course, but you lack funding, please have a look at this
flyer (243 KB). We are pleased that InterPore Foundation for Porous Media Science and
Technology (InterPore
Foundation) will provide grants for participation of graduate and PhD students in selected
InterPore Academy online short courses.

More
info… (243 KB)

Recorded short courses available

The InterPore Academy is offering the possibility to follow recorded short courses given previously.
If you scroll down on the InterPore
Academy
webpage, you will find a list of available short courses as well as the corresponding
registration process.

The list of available courses can be found here
(316 KB).

Upcoming InterPore Academy short courses

Upcoming courses can be found in this
flyer (292 KB).

You are warmly invited to the next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session 27 on
November 2, 2021, at 10:30 CET via live stream on our YouTube
Channel.

The PorousMediaTTT team:

Marcel
Moura (PoreLab, UiO), Kamalijt Singh (HW), Catherine Spurin (Stanford), Maja Ruecker
(TU/e), Arjen Mascini (UGhent), Nara Brandão (UFU), Javier Santos (UTexas), Mohammad Nooraiepour
(UiO)

InterPore
Award Nominations: deadline
approaching

The deadline to nominate candidates for the InterPore
Awards is quickly approaching.
You can nominate
candidates for the following awards until 15
November :

• Honorary Lifetime Membership Award
• Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lectureship Award
• InterPore Medal for Porous Media Research
• InterPore Award for Porous Media Research
• InterPore-PoreLab Award for Young Researchers
• Rien van Genuchten Early-Career Award of Porous Media for a Green World

Practical details on how to submit nominations can be found on the
website. Don’t delay!

Contaminant Source Identification
in Aquifers: A Critical View

J.
Jaime Gómez-Hernández and Teng Xu

Forty years and 157 papers later, research on contaminant source identification has grown
exponentially in number but seems to be stalled concerning advancement towards the problem solution
and its field application. This paper presents a historical evolution of the subject, highlighting
its major advances. It also shows how the subject has grown in sophistication regarding the solution
of the core problem (the source identification), forgetting that, from a practical point of view,
such identification is worthless unless it is accompanied by a joint identification of the other
uncertain parameters that characterize flow and transport in aquifers.

Mathematical
Geosciences (2021)
Corresponding
Authors: Jaime
Gómez-Hernández

Statistical characterization of heterogeneous dissolution rates of calcite from in-situ and
real-time AFM imaging

Siena,
M., G. Bussetti, C. Recalcati, M. Riva, L. Duò, and A. Guadagnini

Proper assessment of mineral dissolution kinetics is critical due to the spatial heterogeneity of
reaction rates observed at multiple scales. High-resolution imaging techniques such as Atomic Force
Microscopy (AFM) enable one to observe the surface topography of a reacting crystal at the molecular
level. These techniques allow detecting the occurrence of different dissolution mechanisms, yielding
spatially non-uniform rates. We investigate dissolution heterogeneity on a calcite sample exposed to
deionized water. We obtain maps of reaction rate from the difference of AFM measurements of
topography at subsequent times. Spatial statistics of rates are interpreted with a Generalized
sub-Gaussian (GSG) model: the time evolution of GSG parameters provides quantitative insights on the
dynamics of the physical mechanisms driving the reaction.

Transport
in Porous
Media 140 (2021)
Corresponding
Authors: Martina
Siena

Formulation and probabilistic assessment of reversible biodegradation pathway of Diclofenac in
groundwater

Laura
Ceresa, Alberto Guadagnini, Giovanni M. Porta, Monica Riva

Pharmaceuticals can be a critical source of concern for the quality of groundwater bodies. Analyses
and interpretations are plagued by data scarcity and limited knowledge on attenuation mechanisms and
potential biodegradation pathways driving the fate of pharmaceuticals in soil-water environments. In
this context, we model the reversible biodegradation pathway of Diclofenac in groundwater. The model
embeds key reaction mechanisms and is framed in a stochastic inverse modeling context, considering
scarce availability of information. The workflow enables quantifying uncertainties of model
parameters and outputs. Results are consistent with the behavior of Diclofenac in groundwater
documented through experimental data and underline the importance of assessing estimates of the
hazard posed by Diclofenac to water resources through a modeling strategy which fully embeds
uncertainty quantification.

Water
Research,
204 (2021)
Corresponding
Authors: Alberto
Guadagnini

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  PhD positions, Flow and transport in fractured media, Department of Earth and Environmental
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