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.
2015
O. V. Poliannikov, Prange, M. , Djikpesse, H. , Malcolm, A. E. , and Fehler, M. , “Bayesian inversion of pressure diffusivity from microseismicity”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. M43 - M52, 2015.
T. Gallot, Malcolm, A. , Szabo, T. L. , Brown, S. , Burns, D. , and Fehler, M. , “Characterizing the nonlinear interaction of S- and P-waves in a rock sample”, 2015.
X. Feng, Yu, Y. , Liu, C. , and Fehler, M. , “Combination of H-Alpha Decomposition and Migration for Enhancing Subsurface Target Classification of GPR”, 2015.
A. H. Shabelansky, Malcolm, A. , and Fehler, M. , “Converted-Phase Seismic Imaging: Amplitude-Balancing Source-Independent Imaging Conditions”, 2015.
Y. Liu, Dong, N. , Fehler, M. , Fang, X. , and Liu, X. , “Estimating the fracture density of small-scale vertical fractures when large-scale vertical fractures are present”, 2015.
W. Pan, Innanen, K. A. , Margrave, G. F. , Fehler, M. , Fang, X. , and Li, J. , “Estimation of elastic constants in HTI media using Gauss-Newton and Full-Newton multi-parameter full waveform inversion”. 2015.
X. Fang, Zheng, Y. , and Fehler, M. , “Fracture clustering effect on AVOAZ analysis”. 2015.
X. Fang, Cheng, A. , and Fehler, M. , “Investigation of borehole cross-dipole flexural dispersion crossover through numerical modeling”, 2015.
H. Wang, Fehler, M. , Wei, Z. , and Tao, G. , “Investigation of Collar Properties on Data acquisition scheme analysis for acoustic Logging-While-Drilling”. 2015.
H. Wang, Fehler, M. , Wei, Z. , Tao, G. , Ni, W. , and Zhang, W. , “Investigation of Collar Properties on Data acquisition scheme analysis for acoustic Logging-While-Drilling”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2015SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2015.
H. Wang, Tao, G. , and Fehler, M. , “Investigation of the high-frequency wavefield of an off-center monopole acoustic logging-while-drilling tool”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. D329 - D341, 2015.
A. S. Zamanian, Rodi, W. , Kane, J. A. , and Fehler, M. , “Iterative estimation of reflectivity and image texture: Least-squares migration with an empirical Bayes approach”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. S113 - S126, 2015.
Z. Zhu, Burns, D. , Brown, S. , and Fehler, M. , “Laboratory experimental studies of seismic scattering from fractures”, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 201, no. 1, pp. 291 - 303, 2015.
A. H. Shabelansky, Malcolm, A. , and Fehler, M. , “Monitoring viscosity changes from time-lapse seismic attenuation: case study from a heavy oil reservoir”, Geophysical Prospecting, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 1070 - 1085, 2015.
A. H. Shabelansky, Malcolm, A. , and Fehler, M. , “The sensitivity of converted-phase extended images to P- and S-wavespeed variations”. 2015.
A. H. Shabelansky, Malcolm, A. E. , Fehler, M. , Shang, X. , and Rodi, W. , “Source-independent full wavefield converted-phase elastic migration velocity analysis”, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 200, no. 2, pp. 952 - 966, 2015.
H. Wang, Tao, G. , Fehler, M. , and Miller, D. , “The wavefield of a multipole acoustic Logging- While-Drilling tool in horizontal and highly deviated wells”, SPWLA 56th Annual Symposium. 2015.
2014
A. S. Zamanian, Fehler, M. , Fang, X. , and Burns, D. , “A Bayesian framework for fracture characterization from surface seismic data”, 2014.
A. H. Shabelansky, Malcolm, A. , and Fehler, M. , “Data-driven estimation of the sensitivity of target-oriented time-lapse seismic imaging to source geometry”. 2014.
X. Fang and Fehler, M. , “Does dipole dispersion crossover indicate borehole stress-induced anisotropy?”. 2014.
S. K. Bakku, Fehler, M. , and Burns, D. , “Fracture compliance estimation using borehole tube waves”. 2014.
D. Yang, Shang, X. , Malcolm, A. , and Fehler, M. , “Image Registration Guided Wavefield Tomography For Shear Wave Velocity Model Building”. 2014.
S. K. Bakku, Wills, P. , and Fehler, M. , “Monitoring hydraulic fracturing using Distributed Acoustic Sensing in a treatment well”. 2014.
A. Malcolm, Szabo, T. L. , Burns, D. , Brown, S. , and Fehler, M. , “Nonlinear Interaction of Seismic Waves in the Lab: A potential Tool for Characterizing Pore Structure and Fluids”. 2014.
X. Fang and Fehler, M. , “Numerical investigation of borehole dipole flexural dispersion crossover under triaxial stress”. 2014.

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