Each spring ERL invites representatives of our Founding Member companies to the MIT campus to hear about our latest work. This page contains the programs from recent meetings.
Employees of ERL and our Founding Member companies can access a password-protected version of this page with links to slides and video recordings of most presentations. Contact erl-info@mit.edu for the password.
2025
Annual Founding Members Meeting 2025: Solid Earth Science for the Energy Transition
| Oliver Jagoutz | Overview of ERL |
| Ben Holtzman | Towards Deep Geothermal Heat Mining: Some open questions on a vast solution for the energy transition |
| Andrew Inglis | From Niche to Necessity: The Rising Role of Geothermal in Clean Energy |
| Hilary Chang | Induced earthquake characterization using distributed acoustic sensing |
| Oliver Jagoutz | Profitable biological carbon sequestration |
| Hervé Rezeau | Harnessing Mineral Chemistry to Find Porphyry Cu deposits |
| Iwnetim Abate | Earth as factory to produce clean fuels |
| Bradford Hager | Geologic Hydrogen: Opportunities and Challenges |
| Admir Masic | From Hot Mixing to Carbon Locking: Tracing Lime Cycle in Ancient Roman and Contemporary Concretes |
| Jonathan Simpson | Investigating geologic carbon mineralization with timelapse CT imaging experiments |
| Ruben Juanes | Scientific Machine Learning for Surrogate Modeling, Parameter Identification and Transfer Learning of Multiphase Flows in Porous Media: Application to the FluidFlower CO2 Injection Experiment |
| Kripa K. Varinasi | Innovation at Interfaces: A Ubiquitous Platform for Energy & Sustainability |
| Xin Cui | Understand the contact condition between casing and formation |
| Yuesu Jin | Application of fluid-filled crack model on trans-casing borehole acoustic logging |
| Laxman Kaffle | Electrical Rock Fracturing Techniques and Applications |
| Ignacio Arzuaga Garcia | Interaction mechanisms between hydraulic and natural fractures in Shale |
| Sai Ravela | Novel application of machine learning for geothermal and seismic inversion |
| Luping Qu | Advanced CO2 Interpretation from 4D Sleipner Seismic Images using Swin-Unet3D |
2024
Annual Founding Members Meeting 2024: Perspectives on New Subsurface Technologies: CO2, Geothermal, and H2
| Laurent Demanet | Overview of the Earth Resources Laboratory |
| Lluís Saló-Salgado | Impact of a century of reservoir operations on fault stability at Wilmington, CA |
| Xin Cui | Influence of fault roughness on injection-induced seismicity |
| Matěj Peč | Reaction-driven Fracturing During Hydration and Carbonation of Mafic & Ultramafic Rocks |
| Jonathan Simpson | High-resolution monitoring of the effects of carbonate precipitation on the physical properties of basalt |
| Aimé Fournier | The effect of temperature-dependent conductivity on electrical fracturing of rock formations |
| Laxman Kafle and Rafael Villamor-Lora | Characterization of Direction Dependent Properties of Sierra White Granite |
| Oliver Jagoutz | Natural process provide solutions to the climate problem |
| Hannah Lu | Learning Physical QoIs from Sparse and Indirect Data for CO2 sequestration |
| Luping Qu | Uncertainty Quantification in Seismic Imaging with Deep Learning Ensembles |
| Brindha Kanniah | Deep Learning with SymAEto Correct for Deepwater Statics |
| Sarah Greer | Reflection and transmission contributions to the FWI Hessian |
| Yury Alkhimenkov | Modeling of coupled flow and deformation using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) |
| Ben Holtzman | Towards deep heat mining at brittle-ductile conditions |
| Malcolm White | Observing Microseismicity During Stimulation and Operation of an Enhanced Geothermal System |
| Ignacio Arzuaga García and Xin Cui | Investigation of rock contact behind wellbore casing –numerical and experimental approaches |
| Yuesu Jin | Investigation of trans-casing sonic logging on a poroelastic formation |
| Hoagy O’Ghaffari | Opto-Acoustic Probes on Brittle and Plastic Defect Dynamics of Calcite Single Crystals |
| Hilary Chang | Urban site characterization for seismic hazard assessment using DAS dark fiber on the MIT campus |
2023
Annual Founding Members Meeting 2023: New Subsurface Technologies, Inference, and Machine Learning Methods
| Laurent Demanet | Welcome |
| Lluís Saló-Salgado | Evaluation of Fault Zone CO2 Migration Hazard in Geologic Carbon Sequestration |
| Hilary Chang | Ambient noise subsurface structure imaging for investigating site effects of induced earthquakes |
| Yury Akhimenkov | Modeling of induced seismicity using High-Performance Computing |
| Eve Meltzer | A Micro-Mechanical Analysis of Vitrified Rock for use in Enhanced Geothermal Energy |
| Majed Almubarak | Effects of Experimental Conditions on Fracture Research Using 3D Printed Materials |
| Tiange Xing | Characterizing Transient Brittle Creep by Ultrasonic Pulsing |
| Tomaso Poggio | Why do some neural networks work as well as they do? |
| Laurent Demanet | Generative AI and geophysics |
| Matt Li | SymAE for Redatuming Nuisance Variations in Real World Datasets |
| Borjan Geshkovski | Understanding redatuming with symmetric autoencoders using matrix completion |
| Brindha Kanniah | Symmetric autoencoders for deepwater static correction |
| Hannah Lu | Uncertainty Quantification of CO2 Leakage and Risk Analysis of Induced Seismicity for Large-scale Geological CO2 Sequestration |
| Youssef Marzouk | Solving Bayesian inverse problems with transport: structured and amortized inference |
| Ben Holtzman | Towards *deep* crustal heat mining: Potentials and (thermo-mechanical) problems |
| Malcolm White | Seismotectonics and energy production in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field |
| Aimé Fournier | Study of covariance across Volve field data |