Inhaltsbereich
Prof. Dr. Helmut Echtler
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 1.4, Remote Sensing
Telegrafenberg, A17 10.01
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1314
Fax: +49 331 288 1192
Mail: helmut.echtler@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Tectonics of orogens
- Active margin deformation
- Kinematic Analysis
- Tectono-chronology
Projects:
Leadership and Principal Investigator in Large-Scale Projects:
| 1985-1989 | Special Research Programme "Dynamique et Bilan de la Terre" (DBT). Centre Nationale de Récherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Institut Nationale des Sciences de l`Univers (INSU)/France |
| 1989-1992 | German Special Research Program SFB 108, "Stress and Stress release in the Lithosphere", ILP contribution (Crustal evolution of the mid-European rift system) |
| 1992-1996 | DFG Special research programme "Orogenic Processes - Quantification and Simulation of the Variscan mountain belt". |
| 1992-1999 | Coordinator of the DEKORP-project "URSEIS '95", Europrobe- and DEKORP-working groups "Uralides". INTAS project and proposal group: The Uralide Orogen - a key to understanding collisional orogenesis. |
| 1996-1998 | Applied Remote sensing: ”Mineral-identification based on air-borne hyperspectral and SAR data over Naxos, Greece”. DLR-Project, DAIS LSF-ESF programme. |
| 1999-2004 | Research group - The active margin in Southern Chile, SFB 267 Collaborative Research Centre, Deformation Processes in the Andes. SPOC - Subduction Processes off Chile. Combined onshore-offshore campaign |
| 2004-2006 | TIPTEQ, (from The Incoming Plate to mega-Thrust EarthQuake processes), Projekt: Coseismic mass transfer and surface processes. |
| since 2006 | VAMP – (Vertical Anatolian Movements project), ESF-project within the TopoEurope initiative |
Links to Projects:
- SFB 267 - Central Andes
- TIPTEQ - Megathrust Earthquakes
- Tectonic South-Central Chile
- Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG)
Career:
| 1980 | Pre-diploma in Geology, Vordiplom, Technical University Munich |
| 1982 | Maîtrise de géologie expérimentale, masters, at Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc USTL, Montpellier/F |
| 1983 | Diplôme d`Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) de Tectonophysique, Géochimie et Géophysique, USTL |
| 1989 | Docteur ès Sciences: Sciences de la Terre, USTL Montpellier, France |
| 1998 | Habilitation at Potsdam University, Dr. rer.nat.habil. |
| 2000 | Adjunct Professor at Potsdam University in Tectonophysics |
| Since 2007 | Professor at Potsdam University in Structural Geology |
Experience:
| 1981-1982 | DAAD-fellowship, Bourse du Gouvernement Francais |
| 1983-1989 | Teaching assistant, Laboratoire de Tectonique et Géochronologie, URA 1371, CNRS, USTL Montpellier, France |
| 1989-1992 | Research Scientist, Special Research Program (SFB 108) on "Stress and Stress release in the Lithosphere", ILP contribution, Geologisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1992-2008 | Senior scientist in the section 3.1 "Lithosphere dynamics" at GFZ Potsdam |
| Since September 2008 | Senior scientist in the section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Co-Director Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences, CAIAG |
Selected publications:
- Rehak, K.; Strecker, M.; Echtler, H. (2008): Morphotectonic segmentation of an active forearc, 37°-41°S, Chile, Geomorphology, 94, 1-2, 98-116.
| EDOC: 9881 | Abstract | 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.05.002 | - Melnick, D.; Echtler, H. (2006): Inversion of forearc basins in south-central Chile caused by rapid glacial age trench fill, Geology, 34, 9, 709-712.
| EDOC: 8699 | Abstract | 10.1130/G22440.1 | - Echtler, H.; Hetzel, R. (1997): Main Uralian Thrust and Main Uralian Normal Fault: non-extensional Palaeozoic high-P rock exhumation, oblique collision, and normal faulting in the Southern Urals, Terra Nova, 9, 4, 158-162.
| EDOC: 4848 | - Echtler, H.; Stiller, M.; Steinhoff, F.; Krawczyk, C. M.; Suleimanov, A.; Spiridonov, V.; Knapp, J. H.; Menshikov, Y.; Alvarez-Marron, J.; Yunusov, N. (1996): Preserved collisional crustal structure of the Southern Urals revealed by Vibroseis profiling, Science, 274, 5285, 224-226.
| EDOC: 4552 | - Echtler, H.; Malavieille, J. (1990): Extensional tectonics, basement uplift and Stephano-Permian collapse basin in a late Variscan metamorphic core complex (Montagne Noire, Southern Massif Central)., Tectonophysics, 177, 1-3, 125-138.
| EDOC: 10774 | 10.1016/0040-1951(90)90277-F |