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Michael Fehler

Research Affiliate

PhD, Geophysics, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 1979
BA Reed College, 1974

Biographical Overview:

Michael Fehler is Research Affiliate in ERL/EAPS who previously served as a Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director of ERL. Since receiving his Ph.D at MIT in 1979, he has worked in the College of Oceanography at Oregon State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was leader of the Geophysics Group and later the Division Director of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division. He was Technical Project Manager for two joint partnerships run by the SEG Advanced Modeling Project focusing on issues related to petroleum exploration and pore pressure prediction in deep water environments. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America for nine years and subsequently was President of the Seismological Society of America from 2005-2007. He has coauthored two editions of a book on seismic wave propagation and scattering published in 1998 and 2012. He also coauthored a book on borehole seismology that was published in 2020. He has authored or coauthored more than 125 peer-reviewed papers. His interests include seismic imaging, reservoir characterization, seismic scattering, geothermal energy, and induced seismicity.

Research Areas:
Uncertainty & Inversion
Imaging
Applications:
Monitoring Change, CO2 Sequestration, Induced Seismicity & Other Hazards
Contact Information:

fehler@mit.edu

617-253-3589