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ERL/EAPS Professors Offer Geologic Hydrogen Seminar
This term the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences is offering a special seminar for MIT students taught by Professors Oli Jagoutz (director of ERL) and Matej Pec: 12.S591 “Seminar on Energy Transition – Geologic Hydrogen.” “Modern civilization relies on abundant and inexpensive energy. Carbon-based fuels currently supply approximately 60% of the 400 TWh…
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Oliver Jagoutz Named New Director of ERL
EAPS Professor of Geology Oliver Jagoutz has been named the new director of the Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL) effective January 15. Professor of Geochemistry Shuhei Ono has been selected to succeed him as the chair of the EAPS Program in Geology, Geochemistry, and Geobiology (PGGG), effective January 1. Founded in 1982, ERL has been a home for researchers across MIT studying the discovery,…
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IAP Class: Geosciences and the Energy Transition Challenge
In January EAPS will offer a special for-credit IAP class taught by ERL/EAPS Sr. Research Scientist Ben Holzman with E.J.M. Willemse and R.C.M.W. Franssen: 12.S590: Special Seminar in Geophysics – Geosciences and the Energy Transition Challenge The ‘Geosciences and the Energy Transition Challenge‘ course provides the participants with a broad understanding of technical, economic, and…
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ERL/EAPS Student Daniel Ortega-Arroyo receives Journal of Structural Geology Student Author of the Year Award
Daniel Ortega-Arroyo, a student in Prof. Matěj’s Pěc’s lab in ERL/EAPS, received this year’s Student Author of the Year Award from the Journal of Structural Geology for a paper they co-authored entitled “A closer look into slickensides: Deformation on and under fault surfaces“. From the Journal of Structural Geology Website: “The Journal of Structural Geology…