Event Category: ERL Events
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MIT ERL Annual Founding Members Meeting 2022: New subsurface technologies and inference methods
Each year MIT ERL invites representatives of our Founding Member companies to the MIT campus to hear about our latest research. Our agenda for this year will be slightly different than in years past, with a full day of talks by students and postdocs for representatives of our Founding Member companies, followed by a half-day…
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WISH: Tariq Alkhalifa (KAUST)
Tariq Alkhalifa of KAUST presents ERL’s Wednesday Informal Seminar Hour.
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WISH: Ching-Yao Lai (Princeton): Hydrofractures: How meltwater impacts ice sheets and ice shelves
Ching-Yao Lai of Princeton presents ERL’s Wednesday Informal Seminar Hour: Hydrofractures: How meltwater impacts ice sheets and ice shelves “Fluid-induced fracturing plays important roles in the dynamics and stability of ice sheets and ice shelves. As the atmosphere warms, surface meltwater impacts glaciers by changing the boundary conditions of both ice sheets (on top of solid bedrock) and…
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WISH: Xukai Shen (BP): Seismic Imaging at BP
Xukai Shen of BP presents ERL’s Wednesday Informal Seminar Hour: “Seismic Imaging at BP” “In this talk, we will give an overview of the seismic imaging at BP using a few R&D themes and projects that have generated industry-wide impact over the years. We will also present the seismic imaging related challenges of the future…
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WISH: Avinash Nayak (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab): Determination of source properties of earthquakes and extraction of Love waves from ambient noise using DAS
Avinash Nayak of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab presents ERL’s Wednesday Informal Seminar Hour. Determination of source properties of earthquakes and extraction of Love waves from ambient noise using DAS “The application of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to subsurface fiber-optic cables can provide high-resolution, wide bandwidth, and continuous long-duration seismic data over distances of a few…
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WISH: Ping Wang (CGG): Recent advancements in FWI
“Recent advances in full-waveform inversion (FWI) algorithms have allowed it to work stably and effectively in different geological settings, especially in areas with geobodies of large impedance contrast such as salt, despite its presently taken acoustic assumption. This has resulted in a leap in salt velocity model building over the conventional interpretation-driven approach, providing much-improved…
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FISH: How can (machine) listening to earthquakes inform our understanding of the dynamics of geothermal reservoirs?
MIT Earth Resources Laboratory presents Ben Holzman, Professor at Columbia U. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, on “How can (machine) listening to earthquakes inform our understanding of the dynamics of geothermal reservoirs? “Mining heat from the Earth’s crust has the potential to contribute to a wide range of human energy needs, but much basic research is needed…
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FISH: Complexity-adaptive seismology: measurements, modeling, and inference from elephants to Mars
MIT Earth Resources Laboratory presents Tarje Nissen-Meyer, Associate Professor at Oxford, on “Complexity-adaptive seismology: measurements, modeling, and inference from elephants to Mars.” (Based on work by Tarje Nissen-Meyer, Ben Moseley, Claudia Haindl, Will Eaton, Alex Szenicer, and Kuangdai Leng.) “Deciphering the ubiquitous vibroscape is the heart of seismology. The divide-and-conquer approach to extract information from…