ANPERC PhD student Saleh Hassan has just returned from presenting at the European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery in France.

Dr. Santamarina and Dr. Park have received the Tarek Al-Kasabi Award for their groundbreaking work on soil classification.

Here is a brief rundown of what has been keeping ANPERC busy these last few months.

Art and Science came together during Julia Garcia's two-week residency.

Over the weekend Dr. Aboud Afifi took his Geoscience students to Usfan and Shumaysi, just outside of Jeddah.

The Lab on a Bench team has cleared one round after another in the competitive Taqadam startup accelerator.

EGEL has just returned from a unique seafloor formation known as Atlantis II.

ANPERC will present a booth at the MEOS exhibition, and several new papers at the adjoining conference.

Former SRSI Mohammed Suleiman is one of several winners of special awards and recognition by IBDA'A.

The Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and KAUST faculty have been working together since last year. This week a delegation came to meet with faculty and give two seminars on their on-going work in the Nankai Trough.

KAUST's best kept secret is the new Prototyping Core Lab, where students and researchers can turn their ideas into reality.

A brief recap of what ANPERC and KAUST have been up to over the past two months.

EGEL Research Scientists, Dr. Jiming Jiang and Dr. Marco Terzariol have successfully deployed and recovered the first pilot test of the EGEL Seafloor Monitoring Observatory (SMO) from Tagoro, an underwater volcano near the island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands.

KAUST's first honorary degree in one of its newest programs is bestowed upon His Excellency Ali I. Al-Naimi at the 2018 commencement.

The ANPERC laboratory facilities now feature a new centrifuge and core flood system.

Two new research scientists and two new postdocs have joined ANPERC in the last few months. The ARMS, CaResS, and MERGE research groups hope that their research will make waves.

It's time for the next round of students from across the Kingdom to present their startup concepts. A team of ANPERC students wants Taqadam to help them change the way we study soil and rocks in the field.

An introductory engineering textbook by Dr. Carlos Santamarina and Dr. Dante Fratta is now available online.

In his most recent visit to KAUST, Dr. Munir Aldin from MetaRock Laboratories talked about the Biot constant, cutting-edge equipment, and the future of geology and geomechanics.

ANPERC's latest addition comes to KAUST from Saudi Aramco, with a wealth of knowledge and a passion for Red Sea and Arabian Plate research.