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On September 8, 2023, Lluís successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Numerical Modeling of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage in Faulted Siliciclastic Settings”. His advisor was Prof. Ruben Juanes of ERL, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences. read more…

New paper in Geophysical Journal International from ERL/EAPS Principal Research Scientist Nori Nakata, former ERL/EAPS postdoc Hongrui Qiu, and collaborators: Towards the Usage of Quarry Blasts as an Active Seismic Source for Subsurface Characterization and Imaging https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gji/ggad391/7289239 “Active or man-made seismic sources are often used to delineate subsurface geologic structures via seismic imaging techniques. Although… read more…

New paper on EOS Archive from ERL/EAPS Prof. Camilla Cattania and collaborators: Searching for partial ruptures in Parkfield “Repeating earthquakes repeatedly rupture the same fault asperities, which are likely loaded to failure by surrounding aseismic slip. However, repeaters occur less often than would be expected if these earthquakes accommodate all of the long-term slip on… read more…

MIT ERL scientists find the sounds beneath our feet are fingerprints of rock stability. MIT News and several science news websites have featured recent work by ERL members Prof. Matěj Peč, lead author and research scientist Hoagy O. Ghaffari, technical associate Ulrich Mok, graduate student Hilary Chang, and professor emeritus of geophysics Brian Evans. By Jennifer… read more…

New paper on Arvix by ERL Director Laurent Demanet and collaborators including former ERL postdoc Dr. Pawan Bharadwaj: Virtual Hyperspectral Images Using Symmetric Autoencoders Archisman Bhattacharjee, Pawan Bharadwaj, Laurent Demanet Abstract: Spectral data acquired through remote sensing are invaluable for environmental and resource studies. However, these datasets are often marred by nuisance phenomena such as… read more…

New paper on full waveform inversion from ERL Director Professor Laurent Demanet, recent alum Dr. Hongyu Sun (now a postdoc at CalTech) and their collaborators at TotalEnergies published in Geophysics Journal International: “Learning with real data without real labels: A strategy for extrapolated full-waveform inversion with field data.” https://doi-org.libproxy.mit.edu/10.1093/gji/ggad330 “Full-waveform inversion (FWI) relies on low-frequency… read more…

New paper on CO2 Storage from Professor Ruben Juanes of ERL and MIT Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and co-authors published in Tranport in Porous Media: “The FluidFlower Validation Benchmark Study for the Storage of CO2.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11242-023-01977-7 “Successful deployment of geological carbon storage (GCS) requires an extensive use of reservoir simulators for screening, ranking… read more…

On December 20, 2022, Maryam successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Mathematical and computational modeling of injection-induced seismicity”. Her advisor was Prof. Ruben Juanes of ERL, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences. read more…

On December 19, 2022, Saleh successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Non-uniqueness in Fluid Flow Modeling”. His advisor was Prof. Dale Morgan of ERL and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. read more…

On November 16, 2022, Ekaterina successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Effects of fault failure parameterization and bulk rheology on earthquake rupture”. Her advisor was Prof. Bradford Hager of ERL and the Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. read more…