For over thirty years, the Earth Resources Laboratory has been MIT’s home for earth science and engineering relevant to the energy industry. Each spring, we invite representatives of our Founding Member companies to MIT to hear about our latest research. This year, we are excited to open up the meeting to new potential collaborators in industry and at MIT as we develop innovative strategies for sustainably and responsibly addressing modern societal needs, such as carbon-free energy production, access to critical minerals, freshwater resources, and the safe, permanent storage of atmospheric CO₂. Our new focus is on scalable, practical solutions that can become economically viable means for re-engineering our use of energy and other resources, including:

• CO2 Sequestration Techniques 
• Geothermal Energy Extraction 
• Subterranean chemical processes that produce natural hydrogen (H₂) 
• Extracting critical metals through processes that negate the need for large open-pit mines 
• Monitoring and sustainable management of freshwater resources 

We will be posting a detailed meeting agenda here soon, but the high-level agenda will be as follows: 

Tuesday, May 20
6pm-8pm: Opening reception

Wednesday, May 21
9am-5pm: Research Talks
6pm-9pm: Charles river / Boston Harbor dinner cruise 

Thursday, May 22
9am-12pm: Research talks
12:30pm-2pm: Business meeting (for ERL principal investigators, representatives of our Founding Member companies, and interested potential members.) 

While we hope you can attend in person, we will also make the technical talks available via Zoom. If you are interested in attending, please contact erl-info@mit.edu to request an invitation.