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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… read more…
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Understanding Anomalous Transport in Fractured Rock
New work from ERL deepens understanding of fluid diffusion through networks of tiny cracks in subsurface rock. To fully understand the risks and benefits of underground activities such as oil/gas production, geothermal energy production, or carbon sequestration, energy industry scientists need a detailed understanding of how fluids flow through fractures deep beneath the Earth’s surface.… read more…
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Congratulations Dr. Wei Li
On April 3, 2019, Wei Li succesfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Reactive Transport Processes in Soluble Porous Rocks.” He is shown here with his advisor Prof. Herbert Einstein of ERL and MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. read more…
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Tuning the Model
ERL/EAPS Graduate Student Meghana Ranganathan uses math and machine learning to improve how climate predictions are made FROM MIT SPECTRUM, WINTER 2019: A SIREN WAILED, PROMPTING MEGHANA RANGANATHAN, AGE 6, TO RUN TO THE CLOSET in the guest room. She was armed with a stack of Calvin and Hobbes books and a glass of water. She… read more…
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The Birth of Digital Seismology at MIT
Led by MIT alum Enders Robinson, MIT’s former Geophysical Analysis Group transformed the field of geophysical recording and data processing. Cover Image: Punch tape courtesy of Dr. Sven Treitel; oilfield seismogram courtesy of Bill Gafford, Geophysical Society of Houston Geoscience Center. From the latest issue of EAPS Scope magazine by EAPS News: In the late 1940s,… read more…
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ERL and EAPS Announce First Class of ERL Fellows
Above (left to right): Inaugural ERL Fellows Dr. Dirk Smit, Dr. Ali Dogru, and Dr. Arthur Cheng ScD ’78 The Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL) and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at MIT have announced the recipients of a new fellowship honoring leading researchers in geophysics and related fields who have also… read more…
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Congratulations Dr. Gregory Ely!
On December 11, 2018, Greg succesfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Applications of a Fast Helmholtz Solver in Exploration Seismology.” He is shown here with his advisor, Prof. Alison Malcolm of Memorial U. Newfoundland. read more…
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ERL Student Sarah Greer awarded Department of Energy Fellowship
Sarah Greer (seen on the right in the picture above), a student of Prof. Laurent Demanet in ERL and the MIT Department of Mathematics, is one of four MIT students recently awarded a fellowship by the US Department of Energy to support her work on computational mathematics to address large-scale geophysical problems. “Sarah’s impressive background is… read more…
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ERL to Bring Over 30 Research Presentations to AGU
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,… read more…
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Exploring a Planet with “Fuzzy Logic”
MIT News features exciting work by two of our colleagues, Dr. Guillaume Rongier, a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Tom Herring in ERL/EAPS, and Dr. Victor Pankratius, a computer scientist who was visiting ERL for several months before recently joining the MIT Kavli Institute For Astrophysics. Their new paper applies to Mars exploration, but their… read more…
