InterPore Newsletter 2021 (15) featuring Task Force Africa and new InterPore Chapter

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Dear InterPore colleagues,

The Newsletter team thought it would be a quiet summer. We were wrong! Here is another fully packed
InterPore Newsletter. A call to contribute to the Task force for Interpore in Africa, a new
InterPore chapter being formed, looking forward to 2022 (KC lecturer and InterPore2022), a brand new
Research Spotlight and much, much more…

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

Task Force for InterPore in Africa

The task force InterPore in Africa is moving forward. The next task force meeting is
scheduled in September. Please send contributions to the database and any other suggestions as soon
as possible.

A new email address has been set up for contributions, questions and comments: Africa@InterPore.org.

Michel Quintard, InterPore President
Brahim Amaziane, Chair, Task Force for the
Development of InterPore in Africa
Rachida Bouhlila, Co-Chair, Task Force for the
Development of InterPore in Africa

New InterPore
Chapter

A new InterPore Chapter is being formed: The Southern US Chapter of
InterPore. The online kick-off meeting has been scheduled and will take place
24 September 2021.

Already joining the steering committee:

Daigle, Hugh, The University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Hyman, Jeffrey, Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM)
Olorode, Femi, Louisiana State University (LA)
Sakhaee-Pour, Ahmad, University of Houston (TX), Interim Chair
Salehi, Saeed, University of Oklahoma (OK)
Yoon, Hongkyu, Sandia National Laboratories (NM)

The interim-chair of the Southern US Chapter is Ahmad Sakhaee-Pour.
Please contact him if you want to join or if you have
questions.

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2022

Professor Jacques Huyghe will be the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished
Lecturer Award for 2022. He will succeed Prof. Sahimi and continue the lecture series.

Prof. Huyghe is Bernal Chair of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His
research focuses on pioneering the application of poromechanics to key problems in medicine and
biology including personal care, cell biomechanics, coronary vascular disease and spine
biomechanics.

Interested in hosting Prof. Huyghe? Please visit our
website.

The first plenary and
invited lecturers are
announced. Please keep an eye on the InterPore 2022 website for regular updates…

Research Spotlight: University of
Cincinnati

Groundwater luminary Charles Vernon Theis (1900-1987) earned his undergraduate and
master’s (1922) degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati (UC). The Theis
Environmental Monitoring and Modeling Site (TEMMS), named after CV Theis, was established in 2017.
The UC Hydrogeology Group, led by Dr. Reza Soltanian, is maintaining and using the TEMMS to develop
a fundamental understanding of the effects of coupled hydrologic, biogeochemical, and microbial
processes within river corridors on groundwater quality. Continuous redox monitoring at the TEMMS
has been used to understand the effects of …

Click
here for the entire Research Spotlight (pdf, 1MB)

InterPore Ongoing

Next InterPore Online Short Course

Erratum: The previous Newsletter stated the wrong title for Majid’s short course.
The correct information is as follows:

2Q== - InterPore Newsletter 2021 (15) featuring Task Force Africa and new InterPore Chapter Title:Transport of Viruses and colloids in variably-saturated porous
media
Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Majid Hassanizadeh, University of
Utrecht and University of
Stuttgart.
Date: 20-24 September, 2021.

For more information, please visit our
website

Awards and membership elections

Dr. Víctor Vilarrasa
Riaño from the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research of the Spanish
National Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC) in Spain has been elected to the Global Young Academy.

Victor joins an international and interdisciplinary science dialogue as civil engineer in the field
of hydrogeology and geomechanics. A great example of how porous media scientists are strongly
connected to any global challenges.

Congratulations, Victor, and good luck!

Album of Porous Media Structure and
Dynamics

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 Album of Porous Media Structure and Dynamics, is to compile a collection of
eye-catching state-of-the-art visualization of the different science and engineering aspects of
porous media, as well as to serve as a reference for research and education.

For more information, please visit our website.

Deadline for submissions is 31 July 2021.

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.
Clearly indicate which of the authors is an InterPore member (or the institute with an
Institutional Membership). 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 (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 position on development
and application of reactive transport modeling concepts. Institute of Resource Ecology,
Leipzig, Germany.
PhD
position on computational modeling of solid mechanics in porous materials at the micron
scale. Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME) at the Pennsylvania State
University, US.
Senior
scientist to focus on soil, water & climate related challenges. Institute of
Geo-Hydroinformatics, Technical University of Hamburg, Germany.

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.

Date

Event

20-24 September , 2021

Short
course: Transport of Viruses and colloids in variably-saturated porous media

24 September, 2021

Southern US Chapter kick-off meeting

27 September-1 October, 2021

Short
course: Linear poro-elasticity – From quasi-static consolidation to acoustic
waves

26-27 October 2021

15th
French InterPore Conference on Porous Media

8-11 November , 2021

Short
course: Porous Media Free Flow Coupling