Mit Earth Resources Laboratory

Welcome! The Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL) is MIT’s home for geophysical research driven by technological questions. The laboratory is comprised of a dozen faculty members and their groups, active in areas ranging from seismology to geomechanics, rock physics, flows in porous media, and methods of inversion, inference, and uncertainty quantification. ERL’s sponsored projects are often interdisciplinary, and bring together complementary expertise from all over MIT. While ERL is primarily associated with the department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), some of its faculty members are affillated with Civil and Environmental Engineering; Mathematics; and Aero-Astro. Companies can join ERL as founding members to meet our students/postdocs, and get to know their research (see benefits of membership). We are continuously looking for talented people to join the lab (see our openings page). Stay in touch to learn about ERL's livestreams and other announcements