Event Category: ERL Events

Yingcai Zheng, Professor at U. Houston and former MIT Earth Resources Laboratory researcher, presents “How to trigger earthquakes and volcanic eruptions by a propagating seismic wave” at ERL. Live video of this talk will be available on ERL’s Youtube Channel. “In earthquake seismology, it is a well-established phenomenon that seismic waves excited by a large…

Dr. Rie Kamei Nakata, Visiting Scientist at MIT Earth Resources Laboratory / Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, presents “Monitoring of fluid injection by control-source time-lapse seismic full waveform inversion.” “Seismic monitoring of Earth provides valuable information regarding the time-varying changes in subsurface physical properties that are caused by anthropogenic processes. However, the resulting…

Dr. Dirk Smit, Vice President for Exploration Technology and Chief Scientist Geophysics at Shell, will be visiting ERL/EAPS in his role as an ERL Fellow. MIT students and postdocs are invited to join him for an informal opportunity to discuss projects and careers in the energy industry. Please RSVP to Josh at erl-info@mit.edu.

Inviting students, postdocs and all scientists! EAPS Career Mentor Coffee Hour with Arthur C.H. Cheng, ScD ‘78ERL Fellow, MIT ERL / EAPSProfessor, National University of SingaporeFormer Senior Manager, Halliburton Wednesday, 03/06/19, 10:30amNafi Toksöz Seminar Room (54-209)Please RSVP to Josh at erl-info@mit.edu Arthur C.H. Cheng is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,…

Dr. Arthur C.H. Cheng, ERL Fellow at MIT and Professor at the National U. of Singapore presents “Developments and Challenges in VSP imaging” at the MIT Earth Resources Laboratory. This talk will be livestreamed on our Youtube Channel. “I will discuss recent developments and challenges in VSP imaging, including Reverse Time Migration (RTM), Least Squares…

Dr. Nian Wang, a Postdoctoral Fellow at U. Rhode Island, presents “3D full waveform modeling and inversion of anelastic models” at the MIT Earth Resources Laboratory. Live video of this tralk will be available on ERL’s Youtube Channel. “Accurate and efficient forward modeling methods are important for simulation of seismic wave propagation in 3D realistic…

Tiange Xing, a PhD student at U. Maryland, presents “Generation of Porosity during Olivine Carbonation via Expansion Cracks and Dissolution Channel” at the MIT Earth Resources Laboratory. Live video will be available on the ERL Youtube Channel. “The olivine carbonation reaction, in which carbon dioxide is chemically incorporated to form carbonate, is central to the…

Each year ERL invites representatives of our Founding Member companies, along with friends in industry and academia, to join us for two days of presentations on our latest research, an introduction to our students and postdoctoral researechers, and networking events including a Charles River dinner cruise. This year’s Annual Founding Members Meeting will take place…

Dr. Miguel Bosch, CEO/Founder of Info Geosciences, presents “Inference problems in complex models and applications to Earth sciences” at the MIT Earth Resources Laboratory. “The inference of the subsurface earth structure and properties requires the integration of different types of data, information and knowledge, by combined processes of analysis and synthesis. To support the process…