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Congratulations ERL graduates!
Congratulations to ERL’s newest alumni who received their doctoral hoods at today’s ceremony! Haoyue Wang and Chunquan Yu (above) received their PhDs in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences this year, and Stephen Morgan (below) received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2015. read more…
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2016 Annual Founding Members Meeting
From May 17-19, 2016, ERL welcomed guests from our Founding Member companies for more than 20 presentations in the areas of geomechanics, uncertainty/inversion, imaging, rock physics/chemistry and fluids, as well as informal events including a Boston Harbor cruise. If you work for one of our Founding Member companies but were unable to make the meeting, please… read more…
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Christian Science Monitor covers work by Mordret and Prieto
The Christian Science Monitor featured this article on work by ERL researchers Dr. Aurélien Mordret and Prof. Germán Prieto using seismic waves to track melting ice in Greenland: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0507/Can-scientists-hear-Greenland-s-ice-sheets-melting read more…
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The Economist covers work by Mordret and Prieto
The Economist featured this article on work by ERL researchers Dr. Aurélien Mordret and Prof. Germán Prieto using seismic waves to track melting ice in Greenland: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21698641-new-way-understand-behaviour-ice-sheets-good-vibrations read more…
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Science Explorer covers work by Mordret and Prieto
“The Science Explorer” website featured this article on work by ERL researchers Dr. Aurélien Mordret and Prof. Germán Prieto using seismic waves to track melting ice in Greenland: http://thescienceexplorer.com/nature/scientists-are-using-seismic-waves-track-melting-greenland-ice read more…
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Haoyue Wang, PhD
Congratulation to our newest alumnus, Dr. Haoyue Wang! Today he successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Study of Reactive Flow, Ground Deformation and Real-Time Tomography with Applications on CO2 Sequestration”. He is pictured here with his advisor, Prof. Brian Evans, and mentor/collaborator Dr. Yves Bernabé. read more…
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Chunquan Yu, PhD
Congratulations to our newest alumnus, Dr. Chunquan Yu! Today he successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Teleseismic Reflection Imaging of Crust and Mantle Structure”. He is pictured here is with his advisor, Prof. Robert Van Der Hilst. Dr. Yu’s next step will be a postdoctoral position at California Institute of Technology. read more…
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New Paper from Dr. Yunyue Elita Li
Congratulations to ERL/Mathematics Postdoctoral Associate Yunyue Elita Li on her publication of “Toward a closed loop from seismic imaging to earth-model building” in the Society of Exploration Geophysics’s Journal The Leading Edge. read more…
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Prof. Herbert Einstein And His Lab Join ERL
Prof. Herbert Einstein and his lab, based in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), recently became an official part of ERL (although they had already been working with us on some key projects). The lab specializes in rock mechanics, underground construction, engineering geology, and risk analysis. Check out this article about their work… read more…
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ERL Students Aid Search for Drinking Water on St. Lucia
During MIT’s January 2016 Independent Activities Period, ERL grad students accompanied Prof. Dale Morgan to the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia, where they helped the government find new sources of drinking water while getting hands-on experience in applied geophysics. Their equipment included the seismograph and geophones recently donated by some of our sponsors and alumni,… read more…
