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  • Assessing CO2 Migration Within Faults During Megatonne-Scale Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage in Offshore Texas

    Assessing CO2 Migration Within Faults During Megatonne-Scale Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage in Offshore Texas

    The journal Water Resources Research recently published a new paper by a team that included Lluís Salo-Salgado (a 2023 ERL PhD alum who is now a postdoc at Harvard), Josimar A. Da Silva (a 2020 ERL PhD alum who is now a Research Engineer at ExxonMobil), and MIT ERL/CEE Prof. Ruben Juanes: Assessing CO2 Migration…

  • Congratulations to Dr. Ignacio Arzuaga García

    Congratulations to Dr. Ignacio Arzuaga García

    On June 12, 2025, Ignacio successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Mechanisms of Interaction Between Hydraulic and Natural Fractures in Shale Rocks”. His advisor was Prof. Herbert Einstein of ERL and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

  • What if it Works? Hydrogen Beneath our Feet with Brad Hager

    What if it Works? Hydrogen Beneath our Feet with Brad Hager

    MIT Energy Initiative’s “What if it Works” Podcast features Prof. Brad Hager, former director of ERL and co-founder of GeoRedox. https://energy.mit.edu/podcast/hydrogen-beneath-our-feet/ As a clean energy source, hydrogen has shown to have a lot of potential. But when generated using fossil fuels, hydrogen production can have a large environmental impact—even if the energy source itself doesn’t…

  • Congratulations to Dr. Hilary Chang

    Congratulations to Dr. Hilary Chang

    On April 28, 2025, Hilary successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Characterizing microearthquakes and shallow structure with dense array and optical fibers”. Her advisor was Dr. Nori Nakata of ERL and Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.