Call for abstracts to EGU 2022 session on thermal effects in landslides

Extended deadline: Friday, 14 January 2022, 13:00 CET

Link for submission: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/43380

In this session, we aim to bring together scientists interested in all aspects of landslide thermo-hydro-mechanics, from experimental studies to field and remote-sensing monitoring, from microstructural analyses to geomechanical and geostatistical modelling at various spatial and temporal scales.

Conveners: Gianvito Scaringi, Carolina Seguí, Luigi Lombardo, Núria Pinyol, Manolis Veveakis.

Call for abstracts to EGU 2022 session on shallow geothermal energy

The session welcomes contributions about shallow geothermal energy applications, including traditional closed- and open-loop borehole heat exchangers as well as so-called energy geostructures (e.g. thermo-active foundations, walls, tunnels).

Different types of analysis and approaches are relevant to this session, spanning from the evaluation of ground thermal properties to the mapping of shallow geothermal potential, from energy storage and district heating to sustainability issues and consequences of the geothermal energy use, from the design of new heat exchangers and installation techniques to the energy and thermo-(hydro-)mechanical performance of energy geostructures, from the local behavior of a heat exchanger to the city scale implementation of energy geostructures. Contributions based on experimental, analytical and numerical modelling are welcome as well as interventions about legislative aspect.

CONVEENERS: Giorgia Dalla Santa (University of Padua, Italy), Jean De Sauvage (IFSTTAR Université Gustave Eiffel, France) and Francesco Cecinato (University of Milan, Italy)

Due to the continuing difficulties that many people in the EGU community, all around the world, are experiencing, the abstract submission deadline for EGU22 is being extended to FRIDAY, 14 JANUARY AT 13.00 CET

More information on this website https://egu22.eu/abstracts_and_programme/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html and on this flyer.

Call for papers for Acta Geotechnica Special Issue on Bio-inspired Geotechnics

We invite you to submit a contribution to the special issue on “Bio-inspired Geotechnics” in the Acta Geotechnica journal, for which Julian Tao (ASU) and Alejandro Martinez (UC Davis) will serve as guest editors. This special issue will accept original research papers, short communications, and review papers on experimental, numerical, and analytical investigations.

The deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2022; however, early submissions will be reviewed as they are submitted.

Attached, you can find the call for papers for this special issue. 

See attached file for further details.

1st call to access facilities within the framework of EXCITE Transnational Access programme

We are pleased to announce the first call to access facilities within the framework of EXCITE Transnational Access programme.

The first call will be open for proposals from 1st of December 2021 until the 28th of February 2022. In this first round, the EXCITE TNA programme will provide coordinated access to 24 imaging facilities in nine countries to researchers of any level.

The call information is now available here and applicants can submit their proposals using the online application procedure. Proposal selection will be carried out on the basis of the technical feasibility, and scientific quality of the proposals, this latter carried out by a panel of EM and X-ray microscopy experts, external to EXCITE.

All the necessary information on how to apply, eligibility, list of available installations, and proposal templates will be available on the EXCITE website (https://excite-network.eu/excite-tna-call-open/).

ALERT Workshop & School 2022

Dear ALERT members,
Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce to you the themes and dates of the ALERT Workshop and School 2022.

ALERT WORKSHOP 2022
Dates of the ALERT Workshop 2022: 26th September to 28th September 2022

  • Session 1: “Mechanics of hard-soils/soft rocks
    Organizers: Claudia Vitone, Elma Charalampidou & Nadia Benahmed
  • Session 2 (half-day): “Robot ground interaction”
    Organizers: Raul Fuentes & Itai Einav.
  • Session 3: “Gravity-driven disasters in a global climate change context”
    Organizers: François Nicot, Florence Magnin, Stéphane Lambert & Francesco Calvetti.

ALERT SCHOOL 2022
Dates of the ALERT School 2022: 28th September to 2nd October 2022

  • Advanced experimental geomechanics
    Organizers: Edward Ando, Benjy Marks & Ryan Hurley

ALERT OZ Course 2022

There are still no propositions for the ALERT OZ Course 2022, so you are welcomed to send us your proposition!

Further information will arrive later.
Hoping to see you next year in Aussois !

Sixth Webinar of CMFRGS

The organising committee of the “Computational Modelling for Future Research in Geoenvironmental Sciences” (CMFRGS) webinar series invites you to the 6th webinar entitled “ Computational modeling of geophysical and environmental processes: introduction to the lattice Boltzmann method and the Palabos library” presented by A/Prof Jonas Latt from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Webinar 6 is scheduled to be hosted at 9:00 am (CET), 9th December 2021 with registration for this webinar closing at 24:00 (CET), 6th December 2021.

Please forward this invitation to your colleagues who may be interested in attending.

You may find further info and register (free but mandatory) here: https://www.m2clab.com/cmfrgs-webinars as well as on this flyer.

Dr Maziar Gholami Korzani, A/Prof Sergio Galindo Torres
CMFRGS organising committee

Fifth Webinar of CMFRGS

The organising committee of the “Computational Modelling for Future Research in Geoenvironmental Sciences” (CMFRGS) webinar series invites you to the 5th webinar entitled “SPH applications in geotechnical engineering and applied geology” presented by Dr Chong Peng from the University of Natural Resources, Vienna, Austria.

Webinar 5 is scheduled to be hosted at 9:00 am (CET), 8th November 2021 with registration for this webinar closing at 24:00 (CET), 5th November 2021.

You may find further info and register (free but mandatory) here: https://www.m2clab.com/cmfrgs-webinars as well as on this flyer.

Dr Maziar Gholami Korzani, A/Prof Sergio Galindo Torres
CMFRGS organising committee

International Conference “Processes in natural and technical Particle-Fluid-Systems” (PintPFS) in Hamburg

In the framework of Research Training Group GRK 2462 “Processes in Natural and Technical Particle- Fluid-Systems“ (PintPFS), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), researchers from the fields of civil engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering and materials sciences investigate natural and technical Particle-Fluid-Systems in an interdisciplinary approach. GRK 2462 is formed by eight professors from Hamburg University of Technology leading the PhD research projects of eight junior scientists. In this international conference the Research Training Group brings together all associated scientists and external guest scientists to present and discuss research results of the first 3 year period. While the junior scientists give insights into their research work at TUHH, the international guest scientists will present on the corresponding state of the art in their related fields of research. Interested colleagues from research and industry are cordially invited to join the workshop.

Link to the Conference Website: https://www.tuhh.de/grk2462/pintpfs-conference.html

More information in this flyer.

Webinar: Implicit Material Point Method for geomechanics applications

The organising committee of the “Computational Modelling for Future Research in Geoenvironmental Sciences” (CMFRGS) webinar series invites you to the 4th webinar entitled “Implicit Material Point Method for geomechanics applications” presented by Dr Antonia Larese from the University of Padua, Italy.

Webinar 4 is scheduled to be hosted at 9:00 am (CEST), 19th October 2021 with registration for this webinar closing at 24:00 (CEST), 16th October 2021.

You may find further info and register (free but mandatory) here: https://www.m2clab.com/cmfrgs-webinars and on this flyer.

Dr Maziar Gholami Korzani on behalf of the organizing committee

Energy Geotechnics Webinar Series

On behalf of the organisers, Budi Zhao (UCD) and Zhongxuan Yang (ZJU), we are delighted to invite you to Energy Geotechnics Webinar Series (weekly or biweekly from Sep to Dec, 2021). 

The webinar aims to promote Energy Geotechnics research and will cover the following topics:

  • Offshore foundation
  • Carbon geological storage
  • Shallow/deep geothermal
  • Nuclear waste disposal
  • Methane hydrate

Our three speakers in October are (more details on posters):
Prof. Carlos Santamarina on Energy: A Geo-Centered Perspective (10 am, CEST, 4th Oct, Monday): Tencent Meeting Link – https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/hghXpYo1dtSo?rs=25
Prof. Holger Ott on Carbon Geological Storage (10 am, CEST, 8th Oct, Friday): Tencent Meeting Link – https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/ogu2z0Mai22j?rs=25
Prof. Kenichi Soga on Shallow Geothermal Energy at Multi-Scale (6 am, CEST, 19th Oct, Tuesday): Microsoft Teams Link – https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MjExYmZlNGItZTUyNy00Njc3LThkMTUtYjI1NDg1MWU0MDU4@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%222b897507-ee8c-4575-830b-4f8267c3d307%22,%22Oid%22:%2268b939f1-d53e-460f-90a3-c00501759557%22%7D

Posters in PDF

Prof. Carlos SantamarinaProf. Holger OttProf. Kenichi Soga