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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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ERL/MITei Researchers: Models Overstate Technology Impact, Understate Location Impact for Unconventional Wells
A new cover story from the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Journal of Petroleum Technology highlights work by ERL’s Justin Montgomery, a graduate student from the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in collaboration with Francis O’Sullivan of MIT Energy Initiative: Researchers: Models Overstate Technology Impact, Understate Location Impact for Unconventional Wells read more…
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Congratulations Anna Rogers, MSc!
On July 19, 2017, Anna successfully defended her master’s thesis entitled “Poroelastic Modeling of Groundwater and Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: Investigating the Effects of Fluid Extraction on Fault Stability”. She is shown here with her advisor, Prof. Bradford Hager. read more…
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Congratulations Jamie Potter, MSc!
On July 18, 2017, Jamie successfully defended her master’s thesis entitled “The Effects of Fluid Pressure Changes on Fractured Rock Elastic Moduli and Surface Deformation”. She is shown here with her advisor, Prof. Bradford Hager. read more…
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Congratulations Dr. Yuval Tal!
On June 29, 2017, Yuval successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “The Role of Roughness in Earthquake Source Physics.” He is shown here with his advisor, Prof. Bradford Hager. read more…
