Event Category: ERL Events

Lizhi Zhao, Porfessor at China U. of Petroleum and Visiitng Professor at Harvard, presents “Multi-Dimensional NMR Applications to Oil and Gas Exploration”. “Large scale applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to formation evaluation is one of the biggest achievements in down hole oil and gas exploration in last two decades. Unique information from NMR measurements,…

Yingcai Zheng, Asiistant Professor at U. Houston, presents “Deep earthquake seismic radiation problems and solutions”. “It is well known that a shear dislocation faulting mechanism produces double-couple seismic-wave radiation. However, in the past ~50 years, with growing seismic data and analysis methods, people have documented worldwide that a large number of deep earthquakes were not…

Zongcai Feng, PhD Student at Kign Abddullah U. of Science and Tech., presents “Elastic Least-squares Reverse Time Migration: a Gradient-based Iterative Method and a Deblurring Filter Approach”. “Elastic least-squares reverse time migration (LSRTM) inverts for the P- and S-reflectivity images based on the linearized elastic-wave equations. Two approaches are proposed for implementing elastic LSRTM: a…

Dr. Dan Burns, Research Scientist in MIT EAPS/Earth Resources Laboratory, presents “Stirred into flame: finding joy and meaning by integrating our technical and spiritual lives”. “The scientific enterprise is rooted in wonder and amazement, and that is what captured our imaginations and brought us to MIT.  But the daily grind and pressures of life, along…

Dr. Raj Moulik, Postdoctoral Researcher at U. Maryland, presents “ Signatures of chemical heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle from Full Spectrum Seismic Tomography”. “Is there a chemically distinct reservoir in the Earth?Do superplumes overly denser-than-average material?Can we detect these anomalies with seismic data?Can we evaluate statistical significance of the features in tomography?This study presents the…

ERL’s weekly Friday “FISH” talks will resume in February, but join us on January 12 for this special Thursday talk: Dr. Dan Gostovic, Americas Account Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific presents: “Improving Reservoir Characterization and Reducing Risk with PerGeos—a new digital rock analysis platform”. “Interdisciplinary geoscience research organizations need to understand subsurface rock properties and…

Grant Wach, Professor ay Dalhousie U., presents “3-D Analysis of Petroleum & Carbon Storage Systems”. “There are seldom if any “walls of sand” in any depositional environment‐ Every depositional environment has stratigraphic facies control to fluid flow that produces reservoir heterogeneities that produce baffles and barriers to fluid flow, whether through extraction or injection. We…

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Georg Dresen from the GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam, Germany will visit MIT and ERL 10/06-10/12. He and his group are at the forefront of using AE technology to interpret mechanical results. ERL researchers may remember his visit in 2013. He has kindly offered to present three lectures on topics relating to seismotectonics and to summarize current…

Georg Dresen from the GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam, Germany will visit MIT and ERL 10/06-10/12. He and his group are at the forefront of using AE technology to interpret mechanical results. ERL researchers may remember his visit in 2013. He has kindly offered to present three lectures on topics relating to seismotectonics and to summarize current…