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Topics to include machine learning, multiphase flow, rock physics, geomechanics, inversion/uncertainty, and imaging.
Above: ERL Gradtuate Student Ekaterina Bolotskaya presents her work at the 2018 ERL Annual Founding Members Meeting. She will also be presenting a poster at AGU.
If you’re planning on attending the America Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting this December and Washington, DC, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to catch up on the laterst research from MIT. MIT Earth Resources Laboratory professors, research scientists, postdocs, and students will be there to present 24 posters and 11 talks, and convene three sessions. That’s in addition to presentations by our colleagues in other parts of the Department of Earth, Amtospheric, and Planetary Sciences and MIT. The Department will also be hosting a reception for alumni and friends the evening of 12/10 (If you haven’t received your invitation, please contact Allison Provaire at provaire at mit dot edu.)
We hope you can join us for some of our presentations which will cover our areas of experitise– multiphase flow, geomechanics, inversion/uncertainty, and imaging– while a few will touch on our newest area of focus, scientific machine learning and its application to geophysics. (printable schedule)
| Date | Time | Type | Presenter | Title | Location | AGU Identifier |
| Sunday, December 9 | 08:00 – 16:00 | Workshop | Douglas E. Miller (speaker) | Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Principles and Case Studies | Constitution CD, Grand Hyatt | WS29 |
| Monday, December 10, 2018 | 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Lluis Salo | Assessing Fault Leakage Potential during Underground CO2 Storage in the Gulf of Mexico | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | H11N-1633 |
| 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Mariana Rodriguez-Buno | Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes in Deep Borehole Repository in Granite Host Rock for a High Level Nuclear Waster Repository | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | H11N-0622 | |
| 08:50 – 09:00 | Talk | Harry Matchette-Downes | Seismological observations of the isostatic support of southwestern Tibet | Marriott Marquis – Liberty N-P | T11A-04 | |
| 09:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Hongjian Fang | Random Voronoi Cells Based Parsimonious Inversion: Methodology and Application to Global S wave Arrival Time Data | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | S31D-0537 | |
| 11:05 – 11:20 | Talk | Aurélien Mordret | Investigating the early 21st century droughts in Central California using seismic interferometry | Marriott Marquis – Independence D | S12A-04 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Amir Pahlavan | Unstable Imbibition in Rough Fractures: Emergence of a Thin—Film Front in Strongly Wetting Conditions | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | H13Q-2222 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Chunfang Meng | Obtaining Half Space Eshelby solution via Numerical Traction Cancellation | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | T13G-2794 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Jane Chui | Impact of Motile Bacteria on Viscous Fingering | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | H13Q-2213 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Shujuan Mao | A new wavelet-based approach to measure time- and frequency-dependent seismic velocity variations | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | S13C-0433 | |
| 14:10 – 14:25 | Talk | Julien Clancy | Deep Learning for Making Sense of Ambient Seismic Noise | Marriott Marquis – Independence D | S13B-03 | |
| Tuesday, December 11, 2018 | 08:00 – 10:00 | Talk session | Cailey Brown Condit (convener) | The Varied Roles of Aqueous Fluids near the Subduction Interface I | Marriott Marquis – Liberty L | T21B |
| 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Ehsan Haghighat | An Implicit-Interface Approach for Modeling Coupled Flow-Geomechanics and Induced Seismicity | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | H21P-0989 | |
| 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | H.O. Ghafari | Ultrasound Probes of the Damage Evolution in Impulsive Fragmentation of Rocks | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | S21D-1482 | |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Talk | Josimar Alves da Silva | Revisiting the Classical Earthquake Experiment in the Rangely Oil Field, Colorado, 1970: Insights from Coupled Flow and Geomechanical Modeling | Marriott Marquis – Independence E | S22A-05 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Xiaojing Ruby Fu | Nonequilibrium hydrate growth on an expanding gas-liquid interface: insights from Xenon-water experiments and phase-field modeling | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | OS23D-2822 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Aarti Dwivedi | Slow-slip events in Northern California with 8-month and 6-Year Periods | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | G23B-2249 | |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Invited talk | Matej Pec | Deformation mechanisms at the base of the seismogenic layer | Marriott Marquis – Capitol/Congress | MR24A-02 | |
| Wednesday, December 12, 2018 | 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Pawan Bharadwaj | Focused blind deconvolution of earthquake signals | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | S31F-1656 |
| 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Saied Mighani | Surface Roughness and Fluid Viscosity Controls on Propagation of a Hydraulic Fracture Across a Frictional Interface | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | T31F-1905 | |
| 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Xuan Feng | Developing a novel method to extract nonlinear viscoelastic characteristics of Earth rock by propagating elastic waves | Convention Center; Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | T31C-0315 | |
| 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster session | Cailey Brown Condit (convener) | The Varied Roles of Aqueous Fluids near the Subduction Interface II | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | T31G | |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Invited talk | Cailey Brown Condit | Fluid infiltration promotes both ductile and brittle deformation within the deep crust: Examples from Southwestern Montana and the Central Alps | Marriott Marquis – Liberty L | T32B-06 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Bauyrzhan Primkulov | Influence of Wettability on Dynamic Fluid-Fluid Displacement in Micromodels | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | H33T-3014 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Chen Gu | Slip Behaviors on an Artificial Fault Surface with Engraved Topography in a Laboratory Stick-Slip Experiment: Insights on the Roles of Fault Roughness in Spatial and Temporal Seismic Distribution | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | T33F-3834 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Eric Beaucé | New Insight Into the Seismicity of the Western Alps from Automated Analysis of Dense Linear Array Data | Marriott Marquis – Liberty N-P | T33F-0476 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Maryam Alghannam | Slip Instability of a Single Degree of Freedom Poroelastic System | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | S33C-3546 | |
| Thursday, December 13, 2018 | 08:00 – 10:00 | Talk session | Aurélien Mordret (convener) | Environmental Seismology: Using Geophysical Tools for Earth Surface Processes Research I | Marriott Marquis – Independence F-H | S41B |
| 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Justin Montgomery | Connecting field data with constitutive physical models for production forecasting of unconventional oil and gas | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | MR41C-0070 | |
| 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Hao Kang | Hydro-mechanical behavior of Musandam limestone fracture with confining pressures less than 1MPa | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | MR41C-1048 | |
| 08:00 – 12:20 | Poster | Rafael Villamor Lora | Fracture Flow Tests and Aperture Measurements | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | MR41C-1054 | |
| 08:00-12:20 | Poster | Yu Rachel Qiu | Reliability of representing fracture permeability with statistical roughness parameters | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | MR41C-1049 | |
| 08:15 – 08:30 | Talk | Ke Xue | Evaporation-Induced Instability during Dry Gas Injection into Water-Saturated Porous Media | Convention Ctr – 146A | H41E-02 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Aurélien Mordret | Seismic investigation of the 2010-2011 volcanic unrest in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | T43D-3632 | |
| 13:40 – 18:00 | Poster | Ekaterina Bolotskaya | Joint theory of friction and fracturing for earthquake rupture modelling | Convention Ctr – Hall A-C (Poster Hall) | S43C-0611 | |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Talk | Ruben Juanes | Wettability Control on Multiphase Flow in Porous Media: A Benchmark Study on Current Pore-Scale Modeling Approaches | Convention Ctr – 146A | H44F-02 | |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Talk | Yue Olivia Meng | DEM Modeling of Coupled Multiphase Flow and Granular Mechanics: Wettability Control on Fracture Patterns | Convention Ctr – 146A | H44F-04 | |
| Friday, December 14, 2018 | 10:20 – 10:35 | Talk | Eva Golos | Investigating the Role of Underplating and Mantle Plumes in the Midcontinent Rift Using Vp and Vp/Vs Tomography | Marriott Marquis – Liberty L | T52D-01 |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Talk | Aimé Fournier | Nondimensionalization and Perturbation Analysis of Seismo-electromagnetic Governing Equations | Marriott Marquis – Independence F-H | S53A-04 |