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Congratulations Dr. Bing Q. Li
On May 13, 2019, Bing succesfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Microseismic and Real-Time Imaging of Fractures and Microfractures in Barre Granite and Opalinus Clayshale.” He is pictured above with his advisor, Prof. Herbert Einstein (ERL/CEE).
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Charles-Henri Clerget’s team Acoustic Wells wins MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
Acoustic Wells, a team that includes Charles-Henri Clerget, a postdoctoral associate in ERL and MIT Mathematics, has won the grand prize in this year’s MIT $100K entreprenuership competition. Their winning project is an internet-of-things control solution for oil wells that leverages a novel sensor to optimize production while drastically reducing the amount of methane emitted. …
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Congratulations Dr. Saied Mighani!
On May 10, 2019, Saied succesfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Some Rock Mechanics Problems with Application for Hydraulic Fracturing.” He is shown here with his advisor, Prof. Brian Evans (ERL/EAPS).
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ERL Alum Prof. Xinding Fang to Receive SEG Karcher Award
Congratulations to ERL alum Dr. Xinding Fang, who will receive the 2019 J. Clarence Karcher Award from the Society for Exploration Geophysicists for “significant contributions to the science and technology of exploration geophysics by a young geophysicist of outstanding abilities.” The honor recognizes his work in several areas borehole wave propagation to anisotropy to rock…