News and Announcements

  • Searching for partial ruptures in Parkfield

    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…

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  • Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth’s crust

    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…

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  • Virtual Hyperspectral Images Using Symmetric Autoencoders

    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…

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  • Learning with real data without real labels: A strategy for extrapolated full-waveform inversion with field data

    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…

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  • The FluidFlower Validation Benchmark Study for the Storage of CO2

    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…

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  • Congratulations Dr. Maryam Alghannam

    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…

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  • Congratulations Dr. Saleh Al Nasser

    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…

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  • Congratulations to Dr. Ekaterina Bolotskaya

    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…

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  • Congratulations Dr. Aarti Dwivedi!

    On August 26,2022, Aarti successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Slow-Slip Events in Cascadia.” Her advisor was Prof. Thomas Herring of ERL and the Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. read more…

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  • Congratulations Dr. Aarti Dwivedi!

    On August 26,2022, Aarti successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Slow-Slip Events in Cascadia.” Her advisor was Prof. Thomas Herring of ERL and the Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. read more…

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