Dear InterPore colleagues,

InterPore2024 has concluded! For those who were there and for those who couldn’t be present, many fond memories can be found through our social media channels (see below). Due to COVID-19, it took some years for InterPore to reach Qingdao, but finally it worked out…and what an event it was! A huge thanks to the local organizing team!

Of course, we would like to know your thoughts so the meeting can be as good or better in Albuquerque in 2025. Please find the link to the survey below.

Meanwhile, the world continues on with producing new papers, the possibility to apply for the Kimberly-Clark lectures, jobs, other events, webinars and elections into prestigious positions. In that respect, many congrats to Prof. Martin Blunt! And, of course, please consider nominees for the upcoming InterPore elections.

To conclude, a correction from the last Newsletter: the eulogy of Professor De Marsily was originally written by Benoit Noetinger and adapted to our Newsletter by Majid Hassanizadeh.

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

InterPore2024 follow-up

We hope you enjoyed InterPore2024!

Here are answers to some common attendee questions:

• Can I still use the Whova app to connect with attendees? Yes! Continue using in-app messages, e-business card requests, and Community posts to stay in touch.

• What else can I do with the app now that the event is over? Receive updates about future events and manage all your event networking activities. Keep the app for use at other events worldwide.

• How long will event information be available on the app? Event info will remain for 3 months. Your contacts, messages, and scanned cards will not be removed.

• How long will recorded material be available? Recorded presentations will be accessible via the Whova app until 30 June.

InterPore2024 Survey

Your feedback on InterPore2024 is important to us!

Your input is essential for the continual improvement of our conferences. Please help us by completing this 5-minute survey. We value your opinion and look forward to your feedback! If you have not already done so, please complete the survey!

SURVEY

MDPI Student Poster Award 2024

The MDPI Student Poster Award is given in recognition of outstanding student poster presentations at the annual InterPore conference. Each year, the Student Awards and Grants Sub-Committee chaired by Professor Mohaddeseh Mousavi Nezhad, chooses the best two student poster presentations, and the winners receive an honorable mention during the conference and a prize of € 500. The award has been sponsored by MDPI Energies and MDPI Computation.

We are happy to announce this years winners:

Congratulations to the winners!

Grant Writing Workshop

The Grant Writing Workshop at InterPore2024, led by Professor Nima Shokri, received excellent feedback for its practical approach to discussing grant writing with students, postdocs, and early career researchers. Organized by the Student Affairs Committee (SAC), the workshop was praised for its interactive style and the use of a recent grant proposal as a real-world example. The thorough preparation for the workshop by the Editor-in-Chief of InterPore Journal clearly paid off, as participants found the direct and detailed presentation helped demystify the grant writing process. By the end of the event, attendees had gained valuable insights into facing the challenges of securing research funding. The workshop’s meaningful impact gave the early career researchers the tools and confidence to write successful grant proposals.

In summary, the Grant Writing Workshop was a standout success. We commend the efforts of everyone involved in organizing this event, as it has provided our early career researchers with the tools to approach and master the art of grant writing confidently. Such opportunities are the cornerstone for nurturing the future generation of porous media scientists, and we are thrilled to have facilitated this critical stepping stone in their journey.

Social Media

InterPore2024 has been covered by social media! Please visit Facebook, LinkedIn, X and Instagram and re-enjoy and like InterPore2024!

Top Sponsors for InterPore2024

InterPore Elections 2024: Call for Nominations

InterPore Elections are coming up, spanning an election period from 1 – 30 November 2024. With this announcement, we wish to inform the Society members about the details of the election procedure.

Who will be elected: One President-Elect, four Council members and four members of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC).

Who is conducting the elections: The Election Committee, chaired by Prof. Gabriel Wittum.

Who can vote? All current InterPore members.

Nomination Committee: In accordance with the InterPore bylaws, a Nomination Committee has been formed, chaired by Michel Quintard (CNRS, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France).

Members of the Nomination Committee are:

• Eduardo Abreu
  University of Campinas, Brazil. email
• Lauren Beckingham
  Auburn University, USA, email
• Reza Soltanian
  University of Cincinnati, USA. email
• Ruina XU
  Tsinghua University, China. email

How to nominate: Please volunteer to run for an office and/or nominate candidates now; please contact Michel Quintard or any other member of the Nomination Committee. Criteria for the selection of candidates by EC and approval by the Council are (1) personal qualifications, (2) balancing industry and academic/research institutions, and (3) ensuring – as much as possible – gender and geographical balance. Only nominees who agree to serve, once elected, will be accepted.

More information on the committees involved and the election procedure can be found here and feel free to contact Michel Quintard for any related questions.

Nomination deadline: 1 June 2024.

Apply for Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2025

Prof. Rainer Helmig, from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, is the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer of 2025. As the winner of this year’s distinguished award, Prof. Rainer Helmig will be giving one of his two lectures at selected institutions. Hosts may select one of two options:

• Lecture A: Porous Media Free-Flow Coupling – From REV to Pore Scale and Back

• Lecture B: From the Brain to Water Uptake of Roots to Fuel Cells: – Porous Media are “Almost” Everywhere

For more information about the lectures, please visit Prof. Helmig’s page. If your university/institution is interested in hosting Prof. Helmig, please download and fill out the application form and send it to Sandra Bartsch until 31 December 2024.

New InterPore Time Capsule on YouTube

Have you visited our YouTube channel recently? Check out our latest Time Capsule Video featuring Professor Emeritus Dick Bedeaux and Professor Emerita Signe Kjelstrup, interviewed by Professor Alex Hansen. They discuss their childhoods, scientific journeys, and careers at PoreLab – Centre of Excellence (SFF), NTNU. Don’t miss their inspiring stories!

Chapter News

Australia InterPore Chapter Meeting

The 4th Biennial Meeting of InterPore Australian Chapter will take place in Sydney from 28 Jan – 31 Jan 2025. This is a joint conference with International Wettability and Porous Media Symposium.

Learn more about the event here.

Next Academy Webinar: Robin Gerlach

Mark your calendars!

Our next free InterPore Academy webinar will take place on 25 June 2024. Robin Gerlach, Montana State University, will present “Biotechnology, biomineralization and biofilms in porous media.”

Duration: 1 hour
Date/Time: Tuesday, 25 June 2024, at 4pm CEST
Location: Online

We look forward to seeing you there!

The Royal Society Fellow: Martin Blunt

A long-standing supporter of InterPore, Professor Martin Blunt has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society, a very prestigious award! On behalf of the entire InterPore community, congratulations, well done and well deserved!

GET2024

4-7 November 2024, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Fifth EAGE Global Energy Transition Conference and Exhibition (GET 2024) is the premier EAGE’s event highlighting the application of geoscience and engineering skills towards the energy transition. It provides a unique platform for bringing together geoscience and engineering professionals with an interest in renewables, minerals and decarbonization technologies. The conference features four sub-conferences dedicated to Offshore Wind Energy, Carbon Capture & Storage, Geothermal Energy, and Hydrogen & Energy Storage. Submit your abstracts by 30 June 2024 to be part of our technical program and showcase your latest researches to a global audience.

Call for experts to participate in the Scoping Meeting for the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has invited the International Science Council to nominate experts to participate in the Scoping Meeting for the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report to be held tentatively in December 2024 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Please share this call within your ISC Member organization and encourage relevant experts to self-nominate by 3 June. More information

Global Call for Science Missions for Sustainability

Collaborative consortia comprising, for example, scientists and scientific organizations, policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, communities, or the private sector, working on identifying solutions for complex sustainability challenges, are invited to submit their pilot science missions by 31 May via the ISC website.

InterPore has been a member of the International Science Counsel since 2020. The ISC is an international organization comprised of more than 245 member societies, organizations, academies, and associations from all fields of science, with the mission “to act as the global voice for science.”

Spatiotemporal X-Ray Imaging of Neat and Viscosified CO2 in Displacement of Brine-Saturated Porous Media

Boxin Ding, Apostolos Kantzas, Abbas Firoozabadi

Efficiency and safety of CO2 storage in saline aquifers can be improved by direct viscosifcation at low concentration of engineered molecules. Our engineered molecules have negligible solubility in brine, very low adsorption to the rock and are mildly affected by temperature. X-ray CT imaging of displacement experiments is conducted to quantify the in-situ sc-CO2 saturation spatiotemporally. The imaging data advance the understanding of boundary conditions, brine production, and local residual brine saturation. The combination of mobility control and residual brine saturation reduction from interfacial elasticity improve sweep efficiency significantly and increases the solubility trapping.

SPE J. 1–16. (2024) SPE-214842-PA
Corresponding Author: Abbas Firoozabadi

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The highlight should be short (max 100 words) 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.

PhD

• PhD Studentship: Multiphase and Reactive Flows in Natural Materials: Applications in Geosciences. Coventry University, Coventry, UK

Post-doc

• Post-doc: History Matching in Reactive Transport. Application to U-ISR. Mines Paris – PSL, Paris, France

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. It is also possible to post the position on the InterPore website. Log in through MyInterPore and click “Submit A Job Opening.”