Announcements

Daniel Ortega-Arroyo, a student in Prof. Matěj’s Pěc’s lab in ERL/EAPS, received this year’s Student Author of the Year Award from the Journal of Structural Geology for a paper they co-authored entitled “A closer look into slickensides: Deformation on and under fault surfaces“. From the Journal of Structural Geology Website: “The Journal of Structural Geology…

Ruben Juanes named American Physical Society Fellow by Stephanie Martinovich | CEE – Civil and Environmental Engineering • October 10, 2024 Ruben Juanes, professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at MIT, has been elected a 2024 fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Election to the…

In the October issue of Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, new work by a team that includes former ERL Associate Director Dr Michael Fehler, ERL/EAPS Research Scientist Dr Nori Nakata, and former ERL postdoc Dr Yusuke Mukuhira (now on the faculty of Tohoku University): P–S Travel‐Time Detection and Hypocenter Location of Low‐SNR Events…

New paper in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering by recent ERL/CEE MSc alum Majed Almubarak, ERL Research Affiliate John Germaine, and ERL/CEE Prof. Herbert Einstein: “Fracturing Processes in Specimens with Internal vs. Throughgoing Flaws: An Experimental Study Using 3D Printed Materials“. “The fracturing behavior and associated mechanical characterization of rocks are important for many applications…