News and Announcements

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…