fehler@mit.edu

Michael Fehler
  • Senior Research Scientist
  • PhD, Geophysics, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 1979
  • BA Reed College, 1974
Biographical Overview
Michael Fehler is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously served as Associate Director of ERL. Since receiving his Ph.D at MIT in 1979, he has worked in the College of Oceanography at Oregon State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was leader of the Geophysics Group and later the Division Director of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division. He was Technical Project Manager for two joint partnerships run by the SEG Advanced Modeling Project focusing on issues related to petroleum exploration and pore pressure prediction in deep water environments. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America for nine years and subsequently was President of the Seismological Society of America from 2005-2007. He has coauthored two editions of a book on seismic wave propagation and scattering published in 1998 and 2012. He also coauthored a book on borehole seismology that was published in 2020. He has authored or coauthored more than 125 peer-reviewed papers. His interests include seismic imaging, reservoir characterization, seismic scattering, geothermal energy, and induced seismicity.
In Press
Y. Mukuhira, Poliannikov, O. V. , Fehler, M. , and Moriya, H. , “Low SNR microseismic detection using direct P-wave 1 arrival polarization”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, In Press.
2021
C. Meng, Fehler, M. , and Hager, B. , “Elastic medium containing interacting fluid inclusions”, Composite Structures, vol. 256, p. 113018, 2021.
Y. Mukuhira, Fehler, M. , Ito, T. , Asanuma, H. , and Häring, M. O. , “Injection‐Induced Seismicity Size Distribution Dependent on Shear Stress”, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 48, no. 8, 2021.
2020
H. Wang, Fehler, M. , and Fournier, A. , “Assessing Leak Paths in the Cement Sheath of a Cased Borehole by Analysis of Monopole Wavefield Modes”, Communications in Computational Physics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 424 - 441, 2020.
Y. Mukuhira, Poliannikov, O. V. , Fehler, M. , and Moriya, H. , “Low‐SNR Microseismic Detection Using Direct P‐Wave Arrival Polarization”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 110, no. 6, pp. 3115 - 3129, 2020.
L. Huang and Fehler, M. , “Preface: Special Issue on Seismic-Wave Propagation, Scattering, and Imaging Dedicated to Professor Ru-Shan Wu’s 80th Birthday”, Commun. Comput. Phys., vol. 28, no. 1, p. iii, 2020.
J. Faulds, Brown, S. , Coolbaugh, M. , DeAngelo, J. , Queen, J. H. , Treitel, S. , Fehler, M. , Mlawsky, E. , Glen, J. M. , Lindsey, C. , Burns, E. , Smith, C. , Gu, C. , and Ayling, B. , “Preliminary Report on Applications of Machine Learning Techniques to the Nevada Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis”, 45th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering. Stanford University, 2020.
P. Bharadwaj, Meng, C. , Fournier, A. , Demanet, L. , and Fehler, M. , “Redshift of earthquakes via focused blind deconvolution of teleseisms”, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 223, no. 3, pp. 1864 - 1878, 2020.
L. Huang, Fehler, M. , Zheng, Y. , and Xie, X. - B. , “Review Article: Seismic-Wave Scattering, Imaging, and Inversion”, Communications in Computational Physics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 1 - 40, 2020.
U. bin Wahid, Afify, A. , Fehler, M. , and Fulcher, B. , “Winning with Simple Models: Detecting Earthquakes in Groningen, the Netherlands”, EAGE Annual. 2020.
2019
H. Wang, Fehler, M. , and Fournier, A. , “Assessing Leak Paths in the Cement Sheath of a Cased Borehole by Analysis of Monopole Wavefield Modes”, Communications in Computational Physics, 2019.
L. Huang, Chen, Y. , Fehler, M. , Schoenball, M. , Ajo-Franklin, J. , Fu, P. , Cladouhous, T. , Czsoki, P. , Kneafsey, T. , and Team, E. G. S. Collab, “Induced Microseismicity in Geothermal and CO2-EOR Fields”, Society of Exploration Geophysicists - Postconvention Workshop. San Antonio, 2019.
A. Scarinci, Fehler, M. , and Marzouk, Y. , “Robust Bayesian moment tensor inversion using Transport-Lagrangian distances”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019, San Antonio, Texas, 2019.
2018
H. Hu, Zheng, Y. , Fang, X. , and Fehler, M. , “3D seismic characterization of fractures with random spacing using the double-beam method”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 83210, no. 5, pp. M63 - M74, 2018.
H. Hu, Zheng, Y. , Fang, X. , and Fehler, M. , “3D Seismic Characterization of Irregularly Distributed Fractures in Unconventional Reservoirs”, SEG. 2018.
H. Wang, Fehler, M. , and Fournier, A. , “Assessing CO2 leak paths by analysis of borehole-monopole wavefield modes”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2018, Anaheim, California, 2018.
Y. Mukuhira, Fuse, K. , Naoi, M. , Fehler, M. , Ito, T. , Moriya, H. , Asanuma, H. , and Haring, M. , “Constraining of Focal Mechanisms of Induced Seismicity Using Borehole Logging Information”, Stanford Geothermal Workshop. 2018.
P. Bharadwaj, Mukuhira, Y. , Demanet, L. , Fehler, M. , and Fournier, A. , “Focused blind deconvolution of earthquake signals”, in AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 2018.
Y. Mukuhira, Fuse, K. , Naoi, M. , Fehler, M. , Moriya, H. , Ito, T. , Asanuma, H. , and Häring, M. O. , “Hybrid focal mechanism determination: constraining focal mechanisms of injection induced seismicity using in-situ stress data”, Geophysical Journal International, 2018.
O. V. Poliannikov and Fehler, M. , “Instantaneous phase-based statistical method for detecting seismic events with application to Groningen gas field data”, SEG. 2018.
J. A. Da Silva, Poliannikov, O. V. , Fehler, M. , and Turpening, R. , “Modeling scattering and intrinsic attenuation of crosswell seismic data in the Michigan Basin”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 83114, no. 3, pp. WC15 - WC27, 2018.
X. Feng, Fehler, M. , Brown, S. , Szabo, T. L. , and Burns, D. , “Short-Period Nonlinear Viscoelastic Memory of Rocks Revealed by Copropagating Longitudinal Acoustic Waves”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2018.
2017
S. Salazar, Hantschel, T. , Nozanda, F. , and Fehler, M. , “Building a model with realistic pore pressures: Modifying the SEAM Phase I subsalt model”, The Leading Edge, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 730 - 737, 2017.
A. M. Popovici, Fomel, S. , Mukuhira, Y. , Fehler, M. , and Hirokazu, M. , “Buried microseismic detection from continuous data using spectral matrix analysis of triaxial particle motion”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2017, Houston, Texas, 2017.
H. Wang and Fehler, M. , “A cement bond evaluation method based on the full waveform from a monopole tool”, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts. pp. 875-879, 2017.

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