News and Announcements

  • 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…

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  • Dogru Inducted into National Academy of Engineering

    At a ceremony on October 8, 2017, in Washington DC, ERL Visiting Scientist Dr. Ali Dogru received the highest honor awarded engineers in the US, induction into the National Academy of Engineers, honoring his contributions to “the development of high-performance computing in hydrocarbon reservoir simulation.”  Dr. Dogru is shown here with former US Secretary of… read more…

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  • Florez Receives Student Presentation Award from SSA

    The Seismological Society of American recently honored ERL/EAPS graduate student Manuel Florez for contibuting one of the best student presentations at their 2017 Annual Meeting.  Florez presented work he did in collaboration with Prof. German Prieto entitled “Constraining Earthquake Source Properties Using Depth Phases”.  You can check out his abstract and images from his poster… read more…

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  • Shaughnessy Honored by SEG

    At the recent annual meeting of the Society for Exploration Geophysicists in Houston, ERL’s Executive Director Anna Shaughnessy was honored with a lifetime membership, in recognition of her service to the organization, which she joined in 1980. She is currently a member of the SEG Foundation Board and its Financial Committee, the Women’s Network Committee,… read more…

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  • MIT Earth Resources Lab Presentations at SEG

    Researchers from MIT Earth Resources Laboratory will present 10 talks and a workshop at the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for Exploration Geophysics in Houston, TX.  (Printable PDF) Talks:           Date Time Location Presenter Title Authors Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:55 360A Pawan Bharadwaj Deblending random seismic sources via independent… read more…

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  • Recent ERL Grads and Postdocs Starting Exciting new Jobs

    Congratulations to ERL recent grads and postdocs starting new exciting jobs! Dr. Niels GrobbeAssistant Researcher (tenure-track), U. Hawai’i at Mānoa Dr. Zabihallah Omid MoradianSenior Research Associate and Lecturer, ETH Zurich Dr. Yusuke MukuhiraAssistant Professor, Tohoku U. Anna Rogers, MScGeophysicist, Shell Dr. Yuval TalPostdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology read more…

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  • Welcoming Students for Fall 2017

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