ISRM

President

Jonny Rutqvist
USA

E-mail: jrutqvist@lbl.gov

General Secretaries

Qinghua Lei
Switzerland

Victor Vilarrasa
Spain

Members

Nick Barton (Norway)

Jens Birkholzer (USA)

Maurice B. Dusseault (Canada)

Derek Elsworth (USA)

Xia-Ting Feng (China)

Yves Guglielmi (USA)

Manchao He (China)

Lanru Jing (Sweden)

Patrick Selvadurai (Canada)

Baotang Shen (Australia)

Carl I. Steefel (USA)

Chun’an Tang (China)

Chin-Fu Tsang (USA)

Robert Zimmerman (UK)

Resat Ulusay (ex officio), ISRM President

Laura Pyrak-Nolte (ex-officio), ISRM VP for North America

Early/Mid Career Representatives

Laura Blanco-Martin (France)

Bruno Figueiredo (Sweden)

Diego Mas Ivars (Sweden)

Mengsu Hu (USA)

Hyung-Mok Kim (Korea)

Changsoo Lee (Korea)

Qinghua Lei (Switzerland)

Qi Li (China)

Shaojun Li (China)

Weiguo Liang (China)

Andrea Lisjak (Canada)
Roman Makhnenko (USA)
Ki-Bok Min (Korea)
Pania Newell (USA)
Pengzhi Pan (China)
Antonio Pio Rinaldi (Switzerland)
Xuhai Tang (China)
Adriana Paluszny (UK)
Francesco Parisio (Germany)
Victor Vilarrasa (Spain)
Sheng-Qi Yang (China)
Hideaki Yasuhara (Japan)
Jeoungseok Yoon (Germany)
Fengshou Zhang (China)
Zhihong Zhao (China)

Wancheng Zhu (China)

Terms of Reference

Purpose of the Commission

to discuss and develop best approaches to address world challenging problems and to initiate new scientific directions in coupled THMC research through benchmarking and brainstorming meetings;
to hold CouFrac to bring scientists working on this topic together, communicate, collaborate and bridge the gap of the research across countries, projects and physical fields;
To strengthen rock mechanics in fields such as nuclear wastes disposal, petroleum engineering, geothermal exploitation and carbon sequestration;
to encourage collaboration of those who practice in coupled THMC analysis.

Product of the Commission

A document summarizing current approaches and state of the art of coupled THMC processes modeling, supported by the Proceedings of the International Conference on Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media: Observation, Modeling, and Application (CouFrac);
Special issues in top international journals after CouFrac conferences;
"Chin-Fu Tsang Coupled Processes Award" during each CouFrac conference for identifying outstanding early career scientists in this field.