Dear Colleagues, 

we are delighted to inform you about the 1^st International Workshop RootS23 – “SOIL-PLANT-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION: MECHANISMS, PROCESSES AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING IMPLICATIONS”, which will be held on April 20^th and 21^st in Perugia, Italy. 

The 1^st Int. Workshop RootS23 will focus on the current state of knowledge and research concerning the topic of soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction. This is a very broad and multidisciplinary research theme, spanning several scientific fields, each contributing to the investigation and modeling of specific aspects of the soil and plant behavior, upon variable climatic conditions. The Workshop is mainly addressed to researchers in geotechnical engineering, but the participation of researchers working in other fields (e.g., foresters, agronomists, soil physicians, ecologists, ….) is very welcome and considered fruitful for a constructive contamination of knowledge. 

Twenty invited Speakers will present their research on two main aspects: 

– the mechanisms through which vegetation favours ground mechanical reinforcement;  

– the phenomena and processes underlying soil-plant-atmosphere interaction, which typically require thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupled analyses; 

and in more detail on: plant’s physical and hydrological properties; root architecture and properties; experimental evidence of the effects of vegetation evolution on soil hydrological and mechanical conditions; THM numerical analysis of the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction; ground bio-engineering techniques for shallow slope stability.  

Two ‘open discussions’ will be specifically dedicated to researchers who shall contribute from the floor with very short presentations (3-4 minutes) dealing with in-progress research, aiming at a fruitful and inspiring cross-contamination. 

You may find attached the programme and the flyer of the workshop. 

We hope that the workshop will represent an opportunity to share ideas and encourage new research collaborations, thus improving the strength of the academic network. 

If any of you may find this workshop interesting, we will be happy to give further information about the location and the venue. 

In this case, please contact Manuela Cecconi (manuela.cecconi@unipg.it) and Vito Tagarelli (vito.tagarelli@poliba.it). 

We sincerely look forward to seeing you in Perugia next April. 

On the behalf of the organizing committee  (Manuela Cecconi, Federica Cotecchia, Vincenzo Pane, Vito Tagarelli)

An international conference on “Underground Storage and Geoenergies” will be held in Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau close to Paris) on 14-15 June 2023. This conference is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Pierre Bérest and will follow a summer school on the same topic on 12-13 June. 

The scope covers salt cavern storage, C02 sequestration, nuclear waste disposal and geothermal energy.

There is no registration fees (but registration is mandatory). The organization covers lunches and coffee breaks. 

More information and registration on this pdf file. 

Contacts:
Alexandre Dimanov <alexandre.dimanov@polytechnique.edu>;
Laura Blanco-Martin  <laura.blanco_martin@minesparis.psl.eu>; 
Philippe Cosenza  <philippe.cosenza@univ-poitiers.fr>; 
Jean Sulem <jean.sulem@enpc.fr>. 

The 29th Prague Geotechnical Days international conference focused on issue of Cyclic Loading of Geotechnical Structures will be held on May 22–23, 2023.

Registration and more details available here

Dear colleagues,

In the framework of the IRN GeoMech and the INRAE department AQUA, we organise a workshop on “hydromechanical instabilities” in Aix-en-Provence the 2nd and 3rd of May 2023.

The main objective of this workshop is to review recent advances in the understanding of the elementary mechanisms of destabilization of granular materials and their impact on failure modes (e.g. liquefaction, strain localization).

The topics addressed during the workshop may be related, for instance, to the mechanical response and stability of geomaterials in the presence of capillary or solid bridges (sintering, bio-calcification, dissolution/precipitation, …), internal erosion (suffusion and clogging), surface erosion, etc.

You will find more information on the workshop and all practical details on the following page:

https://www6.paca.inrae.fr/recover/Actualites2/IRN-GeoMech-workshop-on-hydromechanical-instabilities

Please note that the workshop is as usual free of charge which includes meals and accommodation (see details on the web page).

For people presenting, we ask you to send an extended abstract (2-4 pages) ahead of the workshop so that we can publish a booklet.

Here is the registration link (before March 31st) : https://evento.renater.fr/survey/irn-geomech-workshop-on-hydromechanical-instabilities-1o71zv25

We are looking forward to see you in Aix-en-Provence next spring and enjoy thriving scientific discussions in an outstanding natural setting at the foot of the “montagne Sainte-Victoire”.

Best regards

The local organizing committee: Antoine Wautier, Nadia Benahmed, Pierre Philippe (INRAE, UMR RECOVER)

An IRNGeoMech Workshop 2023 will take place online, the 23-24 February 2023. It will focus on “Internal Soil Erosions – Theory, experiment and computation: Can we connect them across the scales?”

More information on this flyer.

Dear All,

We sent an application some months ago, later approved, about the Session 3.4 @ the next WLF6 (https://wlf6.org/forum-themes/#section-6322ba0-3) to be held in Sept 2023, in Florence.

The WLF6 call for abstracts is open.

The abstract submission is only possible online at the following link:
https://wlf6.org/submission/

The deadline is 28 February 2023.

All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific committee after the submission deadline. Acceptance will be notified to the presenting author within 15 May 2023.

We need to promote WLF6 abstract submission and to invite researchers to join Session 3.4: https://wlf6.org/forum-themes/#section-6322ba0-3

Please find attached:

• Guidelines for abstract submission
• The leaflet to be filled with the title of your session and the list of conveners, to be shared via social media or by e-mail. The leaflet is in .doc format, compatible with Microsoft office. After editing the .doc file we suggest you generate a PDF format for sharing.

Dear Colleagues, 

We would like to announce an extended deadline of 28^th February for the extended abstracts for the Symposium on Energy Geotechnics (SEG23) which will be held in Delft, 3-5 October 2023, organised under the auspices of the ISSMGE Technical Committee 308.

Please find more details of the conference on our conference and how to submit your extended abstract on our website: https://seg23.dryfta.com/. To encourage debate on the latest findings, we invite extended abstracts only (which will be peer reviewed), which will be published open access with their own digital online identifier (doi). No full-length papers will be requested. 

You can submit your extended abstract to one of our general sessions or one of the mini symposia which are listed below:

• Energy Geotechnics for Underground Climate Change – convened by Alessandro Rotta Loria and Asal Bidarmaghz
• Induced seismicity – convened by Peter Fokker 
• Numerical analysis of energy geostructures – convened by Francesco Cecinato and Fleur Loveridge
• Offshore Geotechnics – convened by Benjamin Cerfontaine and Anaïs Lovera
• Gas migration in geomaterials – convened by Anne-Catherine Dieudonné, Séverine Levasseur and María Victoria Villar
• Multiphysics and multiscale interactions in the context of energy storage and CO₂ sequestration – convened by Gabriele Della Vecchia and Guido Musso

We are also delighted to announce that there will be two special issues based on contributions to the symposium in the highly regarded international journals:  Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment and Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. Invitations will be extended to authors to extend their extended abstract into papers. The selection process will be announced in due course.

We look forward to welcoming you to Delft!

Best regards, 

The SEG23 organising committee

A Mini-Symposium on “Gas Migration in Geomaterials” will be organised at the Symposium on Energy Geotechnics, to be held in Delft on 3-5 October 2023 (https://seg23.dryfta.com).

This Mini-Symposium is designed as a forum for discussing recent developments and remaining challenges associated with gas migration in geomaterials. We welcome contributions that explore the topic from theoretical, experimental (laboratory and field) and/or numerical perspectives in any energy-related research area.

See the attached flyer for more information.

Submission deadline: February 28, 2023

Contacts:

Anne-Catherine Dieudonné (a.a.m.dieudonne@tudelft.nl)

Séverine Levasseur (s.levasseur@nirond.be) María Victoria Villar (mv.villar@ciemat.es)

Troyes, France. 14-16 November 2023

Like the first DECOVALEX Symposium in 2019 (http://decovalex-coupled-processessymposium.org/), the event will bring together up to 200 participants discussing aspects of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in geological systems. The focus is on new and exciting advances in areas of coupled processes associated with a broad range of subsurface engineering, starting with radioactive waste disposal and extending to geothermal exploration, geological carbon sequestration, subsurface energy storage, etc. The symposium will also provide insights from the current phase of the international DECOVALEX project (https://decovalex.org/), an international collaboration for advancing the understanding of coupled THMC processes in geological systems.

More information on this pdf file.