Conference Courses Don’t miss your chance to register for one of our Conference Courses at InterPore2024, which will take place on 12 May and 17 May. Participation in the conference courses is in-person only (online participation is not possible.) If you are interested in registering for one of these courses, you may do so in

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:

We are delighted to announce and invite you to the Inaugural Lecture of a very active InterPore member, Professor Vahid Niasar. The lecture is entitled “Beyond Pores: Understanding the Complexities of Porous Media Phenomena in their Applications” and will be held on 30 April 2024 at 3-4 pm at the University of Manchester, UK. This

The wait is almost over! We’re pleased to inform you that the very first issue of InterPore Journal is set to be published online in mid-April. This inaugural edition will feature contributions from a range of experts: Majid Hassanizadeh, Martin Blunt, Nima Shokri, Zicheng Wang, Tuanny Cajuhi, Signe Kjelstrup, and Marc Prat…. … and cover

The Iran InterPore Chapter will host the first Iran Conference on Porous Mediafrom 24-25 September 2024. The conference will take place at the School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran. The topics will include diverse applications of porous media in: geosciences, energy, medicine, biology and environmental engineering, and industry.

Free Registration is open now for the sixth InterPore BeNeLux Chapter Meeting. The meeting will be held at Luxembourg University (2 avenue de la Fonte L-4364 Esch sur Alzette) on 11-12 April 2024. Visit the event page to learn more about the Program & Speakers and to register.

Don’t miss your chance to register for Pore 1-8 “Microfluidics for Flow and Transport in Porous Media” Our next InterPore Academy SP-PM course, Pore 1-8 “Microfluidics for Flow and Transport in Porous Media” will take place online on Sundays, starting 7-28 April 2024 (14:00-17:00 Central Daylight Time) with Wen Song, University of Texas at Austin.

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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 Science and Technology Meeting. Targeting postdoctoral researchers and newly hired faculty, up to two investigators will be invited to present their research at our upcoming

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) Summer School. The CCS school is primarily aimed at PhDs but is also open for MSc students and postdoctoral researchers. Participants must submit an online

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 director of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in China. Among the non-conventional soil consolidation techniques, bio-mineralisation has been a central focus of

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 International Brain Research Organization’s Parenthood Grant, and have the chance to obtain supplemental laboratory funding. The deadline for application is 15 March. More information on

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 and the University of Oslo. It will take place from 10-21 June 2024 at the Cargese Institute, Corsica, France. The summer school will provide high-level

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

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 February 2024. Papers can be presented online or in-person.

Predicting Ecosystem Net Primary Productivity by Percolation Theory and Optimality Principle Allen G. Hunt, Muhammad Sahimi, Behzad Ghanbarian, and German Poveda The water balance equation divides precipitation at the Earth’s terrestrial surface into its two principal pathways: evapotranspiration (ET) and run-off (Q). Known as the “central problem of hydrology,” since Robert Horton declared that in

Effect of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Well Placement Prediction in CO2-EOR Projects Using Machine Learning Surrogate Models: Benchmarking of Boosting-Based Algorithms T. Esfandi, S. Sadeghnejad, A. Jafari Carbon capture and storage (CCS) during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in underground reservoirs offer both environmental and economic benefits. This study explores the efficiency of five machine learning boosting

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.

Compaction and Clay Content Control Mudrock Porosity A. Rezaeyan, N. Kampman, V. Pipich, L. C. Barnsley, G. Rother, C. Magill, J. Ma, A. Busch Mudrocks, ubiquitous yet poorly understood sedimentary rocks with significant variations in pore structure, form seals for geological carbon dioxide and energy storage, repositories for radioactive waste disposal, and reservoirs for natural

Tortuosity and Microstructure Effects in Porous Media: Classical Theories, Empirical Data, and Modern Methods Lorenz Holzer, Philip Marmet, Mathias Fingerle, Andreas Wiegmann, Matthias Neumann, Volker Schmidt Empirical data shows that the tortuosity-value of a certain microstructure is more strongly dependent on the type of tortuosity than on the microstructure itself. To clarify the discussion on

Unified Flash Calculations With Isenthalpic and Isochoric Constraints V. Lipovac, O. Duran, E. Keilegavlen, F. A. Radu, I. Berre Simulation of multiphase multicomponent flow with phase change demands great flexibility, efficiency, and compatibility of the thermodynamic subproblem. Complex phenomena in the subsurface require models for multiple properties of the fluid, including volume, enthalpy, or internal

Nanothermodynamics: Theory and Applications Dick Bedeaux, Signe Kjelstrup, Sondre K. Schnell This book explains and applies the systematic thermodynamic theory of small systems proposed by Hill. It uses and extends his method. The basic ideas of the theory are highlighted, and the power of the theory in and away from equilibrium is demonstrated in several

Design Considerations for Dynamic Fluid Flow in Porous Media Experiments Using X-Ray Computed Micro Tomography T. Pak, N. Lopes Archilha, S. Berg, I. B. Butler X-ray micro computed tomography (µCT) has become an advanced non-destructive tool to analyse the internal structure of opaque materials such as porous media. The range of accessible spatial and temporal