On 21^st to 25^th March 2022 the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Perugia will host the first edition of the Training School “CITY-SCALE IMPLEMENTATION OF ENERGY GEOSTRUCTURES (CYCLING)” organized in cooperation with Université Gustave Eiffel, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech and NTNU.

The aim is training MSc, PhD and Professionals in order to provide a comprehensive knowledge and new skills, integrating different topics and typical contents in the framework of: renewable heating/cooling energy, infrastructure, architecture, urban planning, energy geotechnics/geology, energy policies and financing. The school’s activity is proposed with a multi-approach. The following complementary activities are foreseen:

• Frontal Lessons: Attendees will have the opportunity to follow some lectures and seminars proposed by Invited Speakers from industry and academia.
• Group Works: some hours will be dedicated to group works and selected topics will be assigned to be developed synergistically among the participants.
• Technical Site Visit.

Registration can be done sending an email to: trainingschoolegs.cycling@gmail.com, including a short resume. The course has a maximum limit of 30 participants and the deadline to register is 14.03.2022. The School will be with face-to-face lessons. ECTS certification will be issued to the Attendees.

The training school is fully funded by iSite FUTURE (http://www.future-isite.fr) and it covers registration fees, site visits, coffees, lunches and gala dinner.

More information here: https://ing1.unipg.it/files/generale/file/dottorato/booklet_draft_v6.pdf

Brochure: see attached pdf

Thank you for your support to the AGERP lecture series in 2020 and 2021. At AGERP’20 and AGERP’21, we have had 16 lectures and 1 panel discussion that brought together 38 renowned geoengineering experts and a huge audience from 126 countries through a free to access knowledge sharing platform. Apart from the generous support from the experts that appeared in AGERP’20 and AGERP’21, it is your participation and appreciation that largely contributed to the success of AGERP.

In the first and second edition of the AGERP lecture series, we covered quite a breadth of topics related to geotechnical engineering. With the third edition we intend to dive further and deeper at some of the specialised topics in geotechnical engineering. To that end,  we are pleased to invite you to the International Workshop on Biogeotechnics, scheduled to be held from 24th to 26th February 2022 (Australia). You may register for the workshop at www.age-rp.com. Program for the workshop is summarised in the attached flyer.

The next hybrid gathering of the European Geoscience Union – EGU 2022 – will host for the second year the session on the effects of vegetation on unsaturated slope and streambank stability.

The NH1.6 session – Vegetation as nature-based solution for mitigating hydro-meteorological geohazards on slopes and streambanks – will run also this year at the hybrid EGU 2022. The session is coordinated by Vittoria Capobianco (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute – NGI), Sabatino Cuomo (University of Salerno), Dominika Krzeminska (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research – NIBIO), Anil Yildiz (RWTH Aachen University) and Alessandro Fraccica (CIMNE, UPC Barcelona).

Session 28: Porous Media: transport, microstructural evolution, multi-physics coupling and instabilities

Conveners : Henri Bertin, Giulio Sciarra, Benoit Rousseau, Gérard Vignoles

This session aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers to present recent scientific advances in the study of the behavior of porous media, whether they are geomaterials, man-made or natural materials. The session aims to focus on the development and identification of effective constitutive laws in porous media, under different stresses of physical, chemical, thermal and / or mechanical nature, studied separately or coupled. Research on transport phenomena (conductive / diffusive, convective / advective, ballistic / radiative) is a central topic of this session, as well as studies on the evolution of the microstructure of a porous medium (dissolution / precipitation, chemical reactions of deposition / ablation / erosion, mechanical deformations, localization, damage, etc.). This microstructural evolution can be analyzed at the local scale, integrated into a macroscopic formulation or studied experimentally. In addition, instabilities due to non-linearities and / or couplings between elementary phenomena, which may be linked to interfaces, natural convection, deformations or others, at different scales of porous media, are a focal research topic of this session.

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.

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.

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.

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 1^st of December 2021 until the 28^th 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/).

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