Featuring: Hot Air Balloon Adventures at InterPore2025

Sent on: 11-12-2025

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It’s not too late to present at InterPore2025! 

Submissions for posters and online presentations are still being accepted. 
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Registration is now open for in-person and online participation at InterPore2025! Register before Friday, 21 March to qualify for early bird registration fees!

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Join Nicolae Tomozeiu for his course “Thin porous media and complex fluids: interactions in printing” on Sunday before the conference. This course explores the interaction between ink droplets and porous paper, covering topics such as ink properties, droplet formation, jetting, spreading, evaporation, and absorption. Additionally, it examines latex film formation and its impact on print color quality. The course integrates experimental techniques like spectroscopy, microscopy, and computational simulations to analyze and predict print quality based on ink composition and layer characteristics.

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Join us on Tuesday evening during InterPore2025 for a guided walking tour of Old Town Albuquerque, organized by the Local Organizing Committee. Step back in time as you stroll through historic adobe buildings, charming plazas, and hidden courtyards, all while learning about the city's rich cultural heritage. It’s the perfect opportunity to unwind, network with fellow attendees, and experience the vibrant history of New Mexico’s oldest district.

This event is free and open to all attendees of InterPore2025.

Photo Credit: New Mexico Tourism Department
InterPore2025 will be in Albuquerque. This week in Must see…!: Soar High with Hot Air Balloon Adventures

Albuquerque, New Mexico, is one of the best places in the world to experience hot air ballooning. Known for its sunny skies, calm winds, and stunning desert landscapes, the city offers unforgettable balloon ride experiences year-round.

 

The city’s high desert climate and scenic views make it ideal for ballooning. As you rise above Albuquerque, you’ll see the city, desert, and mountains unfold beneath you.  From the Rio Grande Valley to the Sandia Mountains, you’ll enjoy breathtaking panoramas that change with the time of day. Early morning and evening flights offer the calmest conditions and the best light for capturing stunning photos.

A hot air balloon ride in Albuquerque is a must-do experience, offering unparalleled views and a thrilling adventure. Whether for the Balloon Fiesta or during a quiet morning flight, it’s an unforgettable way to explore the beauty of New Mexico.

 

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We are delighted to announce that Canon will once again support InterPore2025 as a Silver Sponsor! A longtime partner of InterPore, Canon’s sponsorship helps enhance the conference experience, providing attendees with opportunities to explore cutting-edge technologies relevant to our field. We appreciate their continued commitment and look forward to their presence at InterPore2025.

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The Global Knowledge Dialogue, organised by the International Science Council (ISC) in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation of Oman, brought together global scientific leaders to discuss the role of science in addressing key societal and policy challenges. Dr. Tannaz Pak represented InterPore at this conference, contributing to discussions on scientific collaboration, sustainability, and the future of global research systems. 

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Prof. Ruben Juanes from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer of 2024, is finishing off his lecture year!

InterPore would like to thank Prof. Juanes for his engagement and dedication this past year. We extend our thank you to all the institutions which have showed such great interest in his lectures.

New Institutional Member

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We are thrilled to announce that InterPore2027 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the week of 10 May 2027! Known for its stunning landscapes, vibrant culture, and world-class hospitality, Rio de Janeiro provides the perfect setting for our annual gathering of porous media researchers from around the world.

Stay tuned for more details on venue, program highlights, and special events. We look forward to welcoming you to InterPore2027 in Rio!

The 2025 Annual Meeting of InterPore Norwegian Chapter will take place in Bergen 13-14 May 2025 under the title "Bergen Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics". This is a joint conference with the VISTA-funded Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics. Registration is now open.

Program and registration

We are pleased to announce the 8th InterPore Brazil Chapter Conference on Porous Media, which will be held at Florianópolis-SC, Trindade Campus, 11-13 August 2025.

The Call for Abstracts starts on 10 February. For students (undergraduates, Master's and PhD) presenting their work at the event - poster or oral session - the registration will be free of charge.  

Feel free to contact 8th.interporebr@contacto.ufsc.br with any questions.

InterPore Brazil Chapter's website

The recent joint event between the Australian Chapter of InterPore and the International Wettability Symposium, took place in Sydney between 29-31 January 2025. The event brought together delegates from around the world, including the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, fostering knowledge exchange within our Australian community.

They hosted 35 oral presentations plus several posters covering a wide range of topics, such as carbon sequestration, underground hydrogen storage, AI for porous media, multiphase flow, geomechanics, and soil characterisation. 

The event also coincided with the Chinese New Year, and which was celebrated with a dinner at one of Sydney’s Chinese gardens. To conclude the event, there was a scenic coastal walk in Sydney.

The event was sponsored by UNSW, and the organisation was led by Peyman Mostaghimi and Jing Yu. 

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A new Chapter is being formed: The Maghreb InterPore Chapter.

The First International Conference (ICMIC 01) and kick-off meeting of the Chapter has been scheduled and will take place on 14-16 April 2025 in Monastir, Tunisia.

This landmark event brings together leading researchers from the Maghreb, Mediterranean, and international communities to exchange insights and foster collaborations in porous media research.

Please have a look at their flyer.

 

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The Iran InterPore Chapter is organizing a lecture series. The first lecture will be delivered by Prof. Vahid Niasar on 3 March 2025.

Last newsletter's announcement for the German Chapter's search for a new Steering Committee chair regrettably included a typo in the email address. Interested parties should contact Aqeel Chaudhry at aqeel.chaudhry@ifgt.tu-freiberg.de. We apologize for any inconvenience. 

InterPore German Chapter

Dr. Chiara Recalcati
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Dr. Chiara Recalcati’s diverse research portfolio on fundamental porous media science, her publications, and her successful and already broad international experience, serve as an inspiration to young scientists everywhere. She is rapidly emerging as a reference scientist in the experimental and theoretical characterization of the heterogeneous nature of reactive processes taking place across the surface of minerals in contact with a fluid and driving chemical weathering of natural porous media.

Prof. Peter Kang
Associate Professor & Gibson Chair of Hydrogeology Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Minnesota, USA

Prof. Peter Kang is a leading scientist in geosciences, specializing in coupled processes in porous media. Since earning his Ph.D. from MIT in 2014, he has established himself as a highly regarded expert in flow and reactive transport in porous and fractured systems. As a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, he leads a dynamic research group focused on reactive transport and fractured rock hydrogeology. His work integrates diverse methodologies, including microfluidics, high-performance computing, and fieldwork, to develop a mechanistic understanding of subsurface processes across multiple scales.

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The goal of the course is to introduce students to nonlocality, fundamental scale considerations, and upscaling based on a statistical mechanics framework grounded in the physics of multiphase flow in porous media

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International Conference in Honor of Rien van Genuchten

A cross on a mountain Description automatically generatedChallenges and Opportunities in Porous Media Multiphase Flow and Contaminant Transport Research, the International Conference in Honor of Rien van Genuchten will be held 07-09 May 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
This event celebrates the 80th birthday of Martinus Th. ("Rien") van Genuchten, whose groundbreaking contributions have shaped modern hydrology. His work has bridged agriculture, soil science, hydrogeology, environmental sciences, and civil engineering, sparking countless studies on the dynamics of water and chemicals in both natural and engineered porous media.

AGU Hydrology Section

The AGU hydrology section has over 11,000 members, and is composed of 12 technical committees, a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee, and a Student Committee (H3S). The Section is engaged in many initiatives, key among them this year:

  1. The Hydrology sections’ “Bridges to the Future” Celebrates the pillars of our discipline and funds student grants.
  2. Water Resources Research “WRR Translations.” This new collection under the WRR umbrella is dedicated to introducing practicable applications of novel scientific findings in hydrological science. 

Workshop on “Digital Analysis of Flow Processes in Porous Materials for Geo-Energy Applications (Digi-GeoEnergy)” on 13-14 March 2025 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. This workshop will cover a range a topics related to geo-energy, including subsurface H2 and CO2 storage and geothermal systems, and will include experiments, modelling and ML approaches for multiphase flow systems.
InterPore Journal

Networks on Networks (Second Edition)

Role of connectivity in physics of geobiology and geochemistry

Muhammad Sahimi and Allen Hunt

With the increasing recognition of the importance of connectivity in the Critical Zone, the advantages of percolation theory, which generates, e.g., scale dependences of connections, transport, and flow, over soil and hydrologic networks, become clear. It provides a unifying theoretical framework to understand problems ranging from the time frame required for river networks to integrate to a given scale, to the number of plant species found in a given climate. A highlight is the chapter on watershed hydrology.

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