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26-27 June, online / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany KIT is organizing a hybrid workshop on “Well integrity in relation to underground gas storage” from 2 pm to

A long-standing supporter of InterPore, Professor Nima Shokri received the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pin from Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala, the Rector of United Nations University and the Under-Secretary-General of the

18-19 September 2024, Bath, UK Welcome you to the historic and picturesque city of Bath, for the 1st Conference on Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales (EPoMM), which aims to

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

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 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

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

A new special issue for the journal “Advances in Water Resources” is planned and will be accepting papers up until 1 April 2025. This special issue is titled “Phase Change

18-19 September 2024, University of Bath, Bath, UK We welcome you to the historic and picturesque city of Bath, for the 1st Conference on Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales

The ISC Centre for Science Futures’ landmark report “Preparing National Research Ecosystems for AI“ offers a comprehensive analysis of the integration of artificial intelligence in science and research across various

The International Science Council and its Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability proudly announce the launch of the Science Missions for Sustainability Global Call. Consortia are invited to submit

Submit your inputs to the UN Scientific and Technological Major Group position paper for the 2024 High-level Political Forum (HLPF) by 10 May. The paper is aimed to deliver concise,

17-19 July 2024, Stuttgart, Germany SFB 1313 offers a DuMuX Short Course, organized by its Integrated Research Training Group “Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media IRTG-IMPM”. The course aims at

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10-12 July 2024, Bozeman, Montana, USA Center for Biofilm Engineering is pleased to continue its program to encourage the participation of outstanding non-MSU biofilm investigators at its annual Montana Biofilm

17-21 June 2024, Krakow, Poland CCS research groups at the University of Oslo (Norway) and AGH University of Krakow (Poland) invite you to attend their Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 11:00 am–12:00 pm (UTC+01.00: Amsterdam) Professor Lyesse Laloui is the Director of Soil Mechanics Laboratory and the Civil Engineering Section, EPFL, Switzerland. He also is honorary

For all ISC Members and their networks: If you are an early-career Principal Investigator currently on parental leave, or will soon be in parental leave, you can apply to the

10-21 June 2024, Cargèse, Corsica, France Linking life-supporting functions of the subsurface across disciplines: The 6th Cargèse summer school will be jointly organized by CNRS, NSF, the university of Rennes

Robert Zimmerman and Adriana Paluszny of Imperial College would like to inform the InterPore community of the publication of their new book, Fluid Flow in Fractured Rocks. This book is

29 May – 1 June 2024, Tashkent, Uzbekistan   The 15th ICTEA Conference will be held this year in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The deadline for abstract submission is fast approaching: 28

30 Sept – 3 Oct 2024, Tucson, Arizona, USA   A call for abstracts for the 25th Biennal Conference – Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR). The CMWR was created

The ISC is looking forward to an exciting year, with numerous opportunities for Members to contribute to critical global science-policy work in the multilateral space, including United Nations (UN) processes.

6-7 February 2024, Congress Center Ramstein, Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany   Math2Market is excited to invite you to their GeoDict Innovation Conference 2024, a new concept of the long-established GeoDict User Meeting.

The scouting program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation offers the opportunity of postdoctoral fellowships to excellent candidates in the lab of a nominating scout without undergoing the usually time-consuming

6-7 February 2024, Congress Center Ramstein, Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany Math2Market is excited to invite you to our GeoDict Innovation Conference 2024, a new concept of the long-established GeoDict User Meeting. This

10-13 June 2024, in Oslo, Norway The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) will host its 85th Annual Conference and Exhibition on 10-13 June 2024, in Oslo, Norway. Under

24-27 June 2024 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA The Water Science Conference (WaterSciCon) brings the water community together every two years to share research, collaborate, and plan for the future.

18-21 March 2024, Magdeburg, Germany and online The course “Drying – Fundamentals and Applications” has been offered successfully by Prof. Evangelos Tsotsas and his team for 10 years on an

14-19 April, Vienna, Austria We would like to cordially invite you to submit abstracts to the following session at the next European Geosciences Union general assembly (14-19 April 2024): ERE3.1

All ISC Member organizations are invited to participate in a one-day Science Filmmaking workshop on 1 April as part of the 2024 Ethnografilm Festival in Paris. The workshop aims to

The International Resource Panel is seeking to recruit leading scientists with policy-relevant expertise, particularly in the development and implementation of science-based solutions for the sustainable management of natural resources and

5-7 December 2023, Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) Join the National Ground Water Association in celebrating 75 years of excellence during Groundwater Week 2023. This annual event provides a unique opportunity

Join the National Ground Water Association in celebrating 75 years of excellence during Groundwater Week 2023 December 5-7 in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA). This annual event provides a unique opportunity

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,

The ISC is pleased to share the 2023 call for nominations to the ISC Fellowship. ISC Fellows are individuals of high scientific and public standing who serve as experts for

11-15 December 2023, San Francisco, USA We would like to invite you to the session: NS015. Uncertainty and Risk Management for Underground Hydrogen Storage. The invited speakers are: Maartje Boon

5-6 October 2023, Kaiserslautern, Germany The workshop offers a unique opportunity to meet with leading scientists in the field of process engineering in a small group and to gain an

19-22 June 2023, Bordeaux, France The main objectives of the 11th Conference of the International Marangoni Association (IMA11) are to provide opportunities for scientists and engineers, working on interfacial fluid

5-7 July 2023, Dresden, Germany Join the 12th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams MetFoam in Dresden. The MetFoam conference series is the largest cross-disciplinary, international technical meeting

19-22 June 2023, Bergen, Norway The study of geophysical systems at all scales, whether from a scientific or technological perspective, calls for sophisticated mathematical modeling, efficient computational methods, and pervasive

2023 GSE Distinguished Scientist and Emerging Scientist Awards Gas Science and Engineering is currently seeking nominations for its 2023 GSE Distinguished Scientist and Emerging Scientist Investigator Awards. These awards are

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

3-5 July 2023, Bari, Italy Numerical Analysis, Porous Media, and Water Resources: A Fruitful Contamination This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bridge the gap between various fields such as geosciences, hydrology,

7-10 November 2023, Sorrento, Italy and Acoustic Valley Institute, Changshu, China The 7th Symposium on Acoustics of Poroelastic Materials (SAPEM) will be held simultaneously in China and Italy (each day

14-16 November 2023, Troyes, France The Second International DECOVALEX Symposium on Coupled Processes in Radioactive Waste Disposal and Subsurface Engineering Applications invites you to the beautiful city of Troyes, France,

4-7 July 2023, Delft, Netherlands The 2nd International Summer School on Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS) will be held in Delft this year between 4-7 July. The summer school will be

28 April 2023, Imperial College London and online   The Towards Net Zero Seminar, the Transition to Zero Pollution Initiative, and the Imperial Policy Forum at Imperial College London Invite

19-21 April 2023, Warwick, UK The School of Engineering of the University of Warwick is proud to host the 2023 Annual Conference of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics. For

15-25 August 2023, Cargèse, Corsica, France The EU-funded project CoPerMix is organizing a summer school in Cargèse, Corsica, France. It will include sessions on: Fluid deformation kinematics The architecture of

4-7 July 2023, Delft, Netherlands The 2nd International Summer School on UHS will be held in Delft this year between 4-7 July. The summer school will be hybrid, and will

5-7 December, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Join the National Ground Water Association in celebrating 75 years of excellence during Groundwater Week 2023. This annual event provides a unique opportunity for

While we celebrate the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD), it is important to recognise the contribution basic science can make to the achieve sustainable development. Within

11 – 13 October, 2023, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA The 15th International Symposium on Wettability and Porous Media will focus on descriptions, measurements, and models of reservoir wettability,

‌Congratulations to Bo Guo, the chair of the Membership Committee of InterPore, on receiving the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Bo is an Assistant Professor of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences

Deadline: 31 January 2023 The deadline for applications for the 2023 Travel Award has been extended to 31 January 2023. This award will be given to two junior scientists, encouraging

9-13 January 2023, Orléans, France The University of Orléans in France is organizing the Blended Intensive Program (BIP) – short courses organized at the European level – on Digital Environmental

International Science Council’s Publication on Research Gaps to Achieve SDGs by 2030 We would like to draw your attention to the following publication by the ISC. “A synthesis of research

Join more than 24 million podcast listeners of the ISC podcasts. There are three seasons with plenty of discussions on topics related to advancing science as a global public good.

20-21 October 2022, (Hybrid) Kyushu University, Fukuoka City, Japan The 8th International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Sciences (IEICES 2022) brings together academics, researchers and students to share

6 – 8 July 2022, Utrecht, Netherlands The registration for the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X) has been opened. Given the imminent lifting of virtually

7-8 June, 2022, IIT Hyderabad, India Welcome to the International Symposium on Nonlocal Mechanics Approaches for Modeling Localized Deformations (NMAMLD) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Hyderabad, India. The

Welcome to the Geotechnical Engineering Webinars, held by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Shiraz University. The series are held in May and June and include Dr. Pooneh

An invitation from our colleagues from Oxford, Twente and Vienna Hello colleagues, We write to call your attention to the upcoming CISM-IUTAM Summer School on “Convection and Deformation in Porous

A proposal for a benchmark on reactive multiphase flow in porous media at the Darcy scale has been published. The Benchmark was written to address several challenges commonly met in

Everyone is invited to a brand new short course covering theory and practical implementation of fluid and thermal couplings in particulate systems with Yade software. The course will be held

Jaime Gómez-Hernández, chair of local organizing committee of InterPore2019 in Valencia, Spain, has been selected as the 2022 Pioneers in Groundwater Award winner. The Pioneers in Groundwater Award recognizes and

Frontiers in Water and Frontiers in Physics are launching a new topic: Nonequilibrium Multiphase and Reactive Flows in Porous and Granular Materials Topic editor: Ran Holtzman This collection will gather

Oil & Gas Science and Technology (OGST), an academic journal headed by IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), is taking on a new identity to become Science and Technology for Energy Transition

19-23 June 2022, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland The XXIV International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2022) will be held in Poland. The conference is planned

A third call for proposals is open from 9 March to 17 April 2022 to get free of charge access to top EPOS-NL research facilities in the Netherlands, notably: the

6 – 8 July 2022, Utrecht, The Netherlands The registration for the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X) has been opened. Given the imminent lifting of

Are you interested in pursuing a Master’s degree and boosting your career? If you have an engineering or geoscience background, strong maths, or a passion for computation, applications are currently

17-20 May, 2022, Politecnico di Torino, Italy The conference is aimed at presenting and discussing cutting-edge issues about modeling and development of numerical tools for porous fractured media simulations. Areas

13-16 September 2022, Athens, Greece The 14th European Fluid Mechanics Conference (EFMC14)focusing on recent advances and future trends in fluid mechanics, bringing together the European fluid mechanics community for extensive

11-14 July 2022, Delft, The Netherlands The department of geoscience & engineering of TU Delft is organizing the 1st international summer school on Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS). Lectures will be

29 August – 2 September 2022 French Conference on Mechanics 2022 Session 28: Porous Media: transport, microstructural evolution, multi-physics coupling and instabilities Conveners : Henri Bertin, Giulio Sciarra, Benoit Rousseau,

The ISC has been monitoring the case of Iranian-Swedish scholar Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali who was sentenced to death by Iranian authorities in 2017 based on allegations that he had provided

25 June 2022, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA The Damage Mechanics Challenge Workshop is held in conjunction with the 56th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. The purpose of this exercise is

Congratulations to the Stuttgart Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1313 on “Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media – Flow, Transport and Deformation“. On 24 November 2021, the German Research Foundation DFG

20-24 June 2022, Flatrock, NC, USA The Progressive Failure of Brittle Rocks is a 5-day, NSF-sponsored, GSA Penrose Conference dedicated to bringing together – in person – scientists from Rock

Congratulations to Dr. Eduardo Abreu, Chair of the Brazilian InterPore Chapter & invited speaker of InterPore2022, for being awarded the 2021 Zeferino Vaz Academic Recognition Award for excellence & academic

8-10 December, INRA Paris, France Workshop SITRAM21: Advances in the SImulation of reactive flow and TRAnsport in porous Media. The goal of the workshop is to present recent advances in

We would like to express our gratitude to the InterPore members, and the porous media community in general, for supporting the Album of Porous Media Structure and Dynamics. The submission

The GeoDict 2022 Workshops will take place online from 4-8 October 2021, during the course of the 10th GeoDict User Meeting. The online event will bring together a range of

Surface Measurement Systems is hosting a webinar for Tappi Nano Division – 7 September at 2 pm CEST (8 am US Eastern Time). Title: Understanding bulk and surface properties of

14-15 September 2021, online The first MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) Symposium will take place online from 14-15 September 2021. The event will bring together a range of MRST users

The 16th Chinese National Conference on Porous Flow Mechanics was held from 29 July to 1 August 2021 in Huludao city, organized by Liaoning Technical University. More than 300 participants

6-8 July 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X) Launched in 1981, the SaltMech Conference series serves to exchange research findings and practical

InterPore Managing Director, Prof. S. Majid Hassanizadeh, has been elected to the membership of Academia Europaea. The Academia Europaea (formed in 1988) is the pan-European academy of science, humanities and

LAST CALL for pictures!!! Don’t miss the chance to be part of the FIRST album exclusively dedicated to capture the beauty and complexity of porous media! The intent of the

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 18.05.2021 at 15.00 CEST local time on our YouTube Channel. The goal of

19 May 2021, 10:30-12:30 CEST Surface Measurement Systems is organizing a free workshop on DVS and iGC SEA for characterization of construction/building materials as well as related materials (such as

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 04.05.2021 at 10.30 CEST/ 9.30 BST local time on our YouTube Channel. The

21 – 24 June 2021, online The next SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences takes place on June 21-24 this year. The meeting, organized by SIAM

Call to the passionate community of porous media: please consider contributing to the first album exclusively dedicated to capture the beauty and complexity of porous media! The intent of the

For our colleagues in the US: The US government has launched a contest with awards totaling $500,000 to come up with a new mask that is safer and/or more comfortable

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 6 April 2021 at 10.30 CEST/ 8.30 GMT local time on our YouTube

9-12 November 2021, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A mini-symposium on “Computational Modeling of Flow in Porous Media” will take place during the XLII Ibero-Latin-American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 23 March at 15:00 am CEST local time on our YouTube Channel. The