fehler@mit.edu
Michael Fehler
- Research Affiliate
- PhD, Geophysics, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 1979
- BA Reed College, 1974
Biographical Overview
Michael Fehler is Research Affiliate in ERL/EAPS who previously served as a Senior Research Scientist and 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.
“Converted-wave seismic imaging: Amplitude-balancing source-independent imaging conditions”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. S99 - S109, 2017.
, “Detection and Identification of Converted Modes and Shallow Structure Mapping in the Groningen Gas Field”, SEG. 2017.
, “Fracture clustering effect on amplitude variation with offset and azimuth analyses”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 82, no. 1, pp. N13 - N25, 2017.
, , “Reliability of velocity measurements made by monopole acoustic logging-while-drilling tools in fast formations”, GEOPHYSICS, pp. 1 - 30, 2017.
, “Wavefield characterization of perforation shot signals in a shale gas reservoir”, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 267, pp. 31 - 40, 2017.
, “The wavefield of acoustic logging in a cased hole with a single casing—Part II: a dipole tool”, Geophysical Journal International, pp. 1412 - 1428, 2017.
, “The wavefield of acoustic logging in a cased-hole with a single casing – Part I: a monopole tool”, Geophysical Journal International, pp. 612 - 626, 2017.
, “2D full-waveform modeling of seismic waves in layered karstic media”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. T115 - T124, 2016.
, “The effect of crack orientation on the nonlinear interaction of a P wave with an S wave”, Geophysical Research Letters, no. 127-8262346162133, pp. 6146 - 6152, 2016.
, “Estimation of elastic constants for HTI media using Gauss-Newton and full-Newton multiparameter full-waveform inversion”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 81, no. 5, pp. R275 - R291, 2016.
, “Investigation of collar properties on data-acquisition scheme for acoustic logging-while-drilling”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 81, no. 6, pp. D611 - D624, 2016.
, , “Quantifying the uncertainty in fault plane solutions inferred from S/P amplitude ratios”, SEG. 2016.
, , “Reliability of velocity measurements of monopole acoustic logging-while-drilling tool in fast formations”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2016, Dallas, Texas, 2016.
, , “The role of cracks in the nonlinear interaction of a P-wave with an S-wave”, SEG International Exposition and 86th Annual Meeting. 2016.
, “Seismic sparse-spike deconvolution via Toeplitz-sparse matrix factorization”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. V169 - V182, 2016.
, “Sequential approach to joint flow-seismic inversion for improved characterization of fractured media”, Water Resources Research, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 903 - 919, 2016.
, “Synthesis of wavelet envelope in 2-D random media having power-law spectra: comparison with FD simulations”, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 207, no. 1, pp. 333 - 342, 2016.
, “Time-lapse full-waveform inversion with ocean-bottom-cable data: Application on Valhall field”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. R225 - R235, 2016.
, , “The wavefield of acoustic logging in multiple casing models”, SPWLA 57th Annual Symposium. 2016.
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