InterPore Newsletter 2024 (4) featuring Announcement of the InterPore Elections
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Issue #04, 16 February 2024
Content
- InterPore2024
- InterPore Conference Grants
- Invited Student Paper Award
- Announcement of InterPore Elections 2024
- Chapter News
- Award Winners
- Community News
- InterPore In Journals
- Research Positions
- InterPore Calendar
- Imprint
Dear InterPore colleagues,
The Dutch ministry of health, including my institute, is under scrutiny for taking insufficient action against unsafe working environments. The news sparked vivid conversations and long apologetic emails from the director and management team with firm action (plans).
The question is even more complex in the international context of InterPore, as (to some extent!) manners and perception are part of the culture, not to mention the geopolitical tensions. InterPore has the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committee striving for a safe community where science can be shared and discussed. Let’s work with them to make InterPore2024 and the IP Chapter Meetings a success for everyone! Share in the joy of the award winners, nominate worthy candidates and take an interest in the scientific achievements.
All in the spirit of taking good care of each other,
Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News
Abstract submission status check
Abstracts have been reviewed and notifications have been sent. If you haven’t yet been informed of the status of your submission, please let us know. You can also view your accepted abstracts from the My Abstracts section of the My Conference page.
And now… Qingdao!
InterPore2024 will be in Qingdao. Described as a city of “red tiles, green trees, blue sky, and blue sea.” Qingdao has a lot of things to offer with respect to science, science history and porous media. This week: Shilaoren Beach
photo by 李子木
Shilaoren Beach, one of the largest seaside bathing beaches in Qingdao urban area, is located at the southern end of Haier Road in Laoshan District, Qingdao, Shandong Province. It is a comprehensive tourist beach integrating vacation, sightseeing tourism, water sports, and beach activities. The coastline of Shilaoren Beach is approximately 3100 meters long, with a beach width of over 100 meters, covering an area of approximately 280,000 square meters. The sea swimming area covers about 240,000 square meters. It attracts around 3 million visitors annually.
At the easternmost end of Shilaoren Beach, southwest of Shilaoren Village and at the foot of Wushan Mountain, there is a cliff facing the sea on the southern side. About 100 meters from the shore stands a pillar approximately 17 meters high, resembling an old man sitting amidst the azure sea, hence earning the nickname “Shilaoren”.
InterPore Conference Grants
InterPore2024 Conference grants are available!
We are pleased to announce that InterPore Foundation would once again like to offer a number of conference grants to researchers from academic institutions from countries with low- or middle-income economies, as defined by the World Bank, and to graduate students.
In addition to paying the conference registration fees, the InterPore Foundation will provide up to €500 per recipient to go towards travel costs.
Applicants must have a presentation at InterPore2024 and current InterPore membership.
Interested? Check here for how to apply.
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Invited Student Paper Award
For those of you participating in the next InterPore Conference in Qingdao, don’t forget about the Invited Student Paper Award from InterPore Journal. Recipients of this award will be selected from the students who present at the InterPore annual meeting. The awardee will be given the opportunity to submit an invited paper to InterPore Journal.
The minisymposia conveners will nominate students for this award after all presentations have been given. In the end, up to eight students will receive this award, which will be announced at the next Annual Conference. For more information on this award, please see here.
Announcement of InterPore Elections 2024: Nominate or volunteer!
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 can vote?
Anyone with a current InterPore membership during the voting period.
We seek:
- At least two candidates for President-Elect,
- At least eight candidates for the Council elections,
- At least eight candidates for the Student Affairs Committee (SAC).
For the Council candidates at least three of them must be representatives from the industry.
More info
Please find more information on the options to nominate or volunteer in this pdf.
Kimberly-Clark Lectureship
Prof. Ruben Juanes, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, is the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer of 2024.
InterPore has received more than 30 applications to host Prof. Juanes. He has two upcoming presentations scheduled, both in-person:
- Imperial College London (UK) on 29 February
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (UK) on 1 March
If you wish to get in touch with Prof. Juanes about a potential presentation, please contact Sandra Bartsch.
Chapter News
Groundwater Week with the Colombia Chapter
The Colombia Chapter is organizing the Groundwater Technical Week. The event will be held in Bogota, Colombia from 18 – 20 March 2024.
More info on their website.
Report on the Northeast-Midwest US Chapter Kick-off Meeting
The kick-off meeting of the Northeast-Midwest (NEWM) United States InterPore Chapter was held on Monday, 22 January 2024, 1-4 PM EST. The meeting was organized by the chapter’s founding committee and was hosted virtually at the University of Cincinnati. Approximately 40 participants registered and actively participated in this engaging 3-hour event.
The meeting commenced with a warm welcome from Prof. Lilit Yeghiazarian, who provided insights into the history and objectives of InterPore chapters. She also shared the journey leading to the establishment of the NEWM chapter. Following this, an informal introduction allowed participants to… read the full report
Mexico Chapter Meeting Announcement
The 10th Annual Conference of Mexico Chapter of InterPore will take place in a hybrid format on 7 and 8 March 2024. Please see here for more details.
InterPore Award for
Porous Media Research
Prof. Ryan Armstrong
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Prof. Armstrong has pioneered novel methods for the analysis and interpretation of multiphase flow in porous media, including the first measurements of interfacial curvature and topology, while leading the development of novel machine learning techniques.
Ryan’s research has been principally concerned with the analysis of high-resolution pore-scale images of multiphase flow, as well as the modelling and interpretation of displacement processes in porous media. More recently, he has made significant advances in the application of machine learning methods for image segmentation and analysis. The work has been applied to understand storage and recovery processes, including carbon dioxide storage and – more recently – hydrogen storage and withdrawal.
InterPore and InterPore Foundation congratulate Prof. Armstrong on this honor and wish him continued success.
InterPore Medal for
Porous Media Research
Prof. Alberto Guadagnini
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Prof. Alberto Guadagnini has a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he is a Professor of Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics, and Vice Rector for Research of the Politecnico di Milano; he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, USA.
Alberto is a brilliant scientist who has applied rigorous methods to quantify and understand uncertainty in subsurface flow and transport processes, and which has had a major impact on practical problems in groundwater management and, more generally, in flow in porous media applied to carbon dioxide and hydrogen storage.
In his research, Prof. Guadagnini has repeatedly advanced the frontiers of porous media science through the delineation, development, and application of quantitative, process-based flow and chemical transport models in natural porous geomaterials.
InterPore and InterPore Foundation congratulate Prof. Alberto Guadagnini on this honor and wish him continued success.
From the ISC agenda:
19 March (online): “Removing Barriers that hinder Global Scientific Exchange and Collaboration” by the InterAcademy Partnership and the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
27 February (hybrid): “Popularizing Science Without Gender Bias” by the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science.
27 February (several in-person and online events all over the world): “Global Women’s Breakfast” by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
InterPore has been a member of the International Science Council 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.”
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 intended for researchers and students who are interested in hydrogeology, hydrology, water resources, structural geology, reservoir engineering, underground waste disposal, or other fields that involve the flow of fluids through fractured rock masses. Classical and established models and data are… read further
Unveiling moisture transport mechanisms in cellulosic materials: Vapor vs. bound water
Y. Zou, B. Maillet, L. Brochard, P. Coussot
Natural textiles, wood, hair, paper, wool, or bio-based walls possess the remarkable ability to store humidity from sweat or the environment through “bound water” absorption within nanopores, constituting up to 30% of their dry mass. The transport and storage mechanisms of this moisture remain poorly understood, with modeling often relying on an assumption of dominant vapor transport with an unknown diffusion coefficient. By isolating diffusion processes and deriving diffusion coefficients through rigorous experimentation our research addresses this knowledge gap, in particular demonstrating the pivotal role of bound water transport within interconnected fiber networks.
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, 2024, pgad450
Corresponding Author: Philippe Coussot
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PhD
- PhD on Multi-scale hydro-chemo-mechanical behaviour of swelling clay-sulfate rocks. Laboratoire Navier, Champs-sur-Marne (just outside Paris), France)
- PhD Student (f/m/d) Sorption efficiency of crystal surfaces. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
Post-doc
- Post-doc in Modelling of hydrogen reactivity in underground aquifer storage. Centre for Geosciences, Mines Paris, Fontainebleau, France
- Post-doc in Geochemical impact of renewable natural gas (biomethane) in aquifer storage in the Paris Basin, France. Centre for Geosciences, Mines Paris, Fontainebleau, France
- Postdoctoral fellow on “FLOWSCOPY: Unravelling unsteady fluid flows in porous media with 3D X-ray micro-velocimetry.” Department of Geology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
(Assistant/associate) Prof
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Date
2024 Partner Society Events
29 May – 1 June 2024
ICTEA Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
10-13 June 2024
EAGE’s 85th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Oslo, Norway
24-27 June 2024
WaterSciCon24, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
30 Sept – 3 Oct 2024
25th CMWR, Tuscon, Arizona, USA
Date
InterPore Events
11 – 12 April 2024
BeNeLux InterPore Chapter Meeting
1 June 2024
Deadline for Nominations/Volunteer Candidates for InterPore Elections
Date
InterPore Academy
8 – 29 February 2024
PORE 1-6: Interfacial chemistry/Geochemistry and reactive transport in porous media
Date
Future InterPore Events
13 – 16 May 2024
The 16th InterPore Annual Meeting (Qingdao, China)
18 – 23 May 2025
The 17th InterPore Annual Meeting (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA)
Imprint
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- Matthijs de Winter (Editor in Chief)
- Leslie Jakobs (Managing Editor)
- Lars Bilke (Production Officer)
- Lynn Schreyer (Assistant Editor, Research Spotlights)
- Serveh Kamrava (Assistant Editor, Social Media)
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