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Welcome new ERL researchers!
Please join us in welcoming several new researchers who have joined ERL recently: Anuar Togaibekov, MSc, Graduate Student, Herring Group Emilie Bowman, Graduate Student, Peç Group Yu (Rachel) Qiu, Graduate Student, Juanes Group Sarah Yvonne Greer, Graduate Student, Demanet Group Cassandra Seltzer, Graduate Student, Peç Group Andrea Scarinci, MS, Graduate Student / Fulbright Scholar, Marzouk… read more…

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Three New MIT Principal Investigators Join ERL
ERL Director Prof Laurent Demanet announced today that three new MIT principal investigators will become official members of ERL: Matěj Peč, Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Eath, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Youssef Marzouk, Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (you can see a talk he recently gave in ERL… read more…

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ERL Welcomes Industry Friends to MIT Campus for Annual Meeting
Each spring ERL invites representatives of our Founding Member companies to the MIT campus for two days of talks by our students and postdocs about our latest research, as well as some fun networking opportunities including a cruise down the Charles River to the Boston Harbor. This year’s theme was “Simulation, Inference, and Machine Learning… read more…

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Congratulations Eric Beaucé, MSc!
On April 23, 2018, Eric succesfully defended his Master’s thesis entitled “Study of the Seismicity in the Western Alps by Developing and Applying an Automatic Earthquake Detection and Location Method.” He is shown here with his advisors, Profs. Robert van der Hilst and Michel Campillo. read more…

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Elita Li to receive Karcher Award from SEG
Dr Yunyue Elita Li has been chosen by the Society of Exploration Geophysics to receive the 2018 Karcher Award for “contributions to the science and technology of exploration geophysics by a young geophysicist.” Dr. Li was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT ERL from 2014 to 2016, and is now an Assocate Professor at National University… read more…

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Laurent Demanet is New Director of ERL
Laurent Demanet has been named the Director of MIT’s Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL) effective April 1, 2018. by Helen Hill for EAPS News April 10, 2018 Laurent Demanet has been named the Director of MIT’s Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL) effective April 1, 2018. Demanet succeeds Bradford Hager, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences,… read more…

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Congratulations Ammar Alali, MSc
On March 5, 2018, Ammar succesfully defended his Master’s thesis entitled “Novel Approach for 1D Resistivity Inversion Using the Systematically-Determined Optimum Number of Layers.” He is shown here with his advisor, Prof. Dale Morgan. read more…

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Congratulations Elezhan Zhakiya, MSc
On December 19, 2017, Elezhan Zhakiya succesfully defended his Master’s thesis entitled “Use of Unsupervised Machine Learning for Detection of Anomalies in Seismic Signal.” He is shown here with his advisor, Prof. Bradford Hager. Elezhan graduated from MIT in 2016 as a double-major in Chemical Engineering and EAPS, then stayed on to earn his Master’s… read more…

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Bloomberg News on “Potentially Game-Changing” work by Justin Montgomery and Francis O’Sullivan
Bloomberg News is the latest media outlet to feature work by Justin Montgomery of ERL and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Francis O’Sullivan of the MIT Energy Initiative and Sloan School of Management, putting into context the “potentially game-changing detail” they have uncovered about the U.S. Department of Energy’s official predictions of… read more…

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Juanes Teaches “Marvelous Physics and Chemistry of Multiphase Flows”
A novel hand-held laboratory reveals hidden subterranean fluid movement. Reprinted from MIT News and Energy Futures. Show the flow A novel hand-held laboratory reveals hidden subterranean fluid movement. Leda Zimmerman | MIT Energy Initiative November 17, 2017 When it comes to teaching, seeing is a key to believing, or at least understanding. That’s is the guiding principle of… read more…

