Inhaltsbereich
Dr. Jens Bribach
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 2.2, Geophysical Deep Sounding
Telegrafenberg, E 456
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1222
Fax: +49 331 288 1266
Mail: jens.bribach@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Running the Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam (GIPP)
- Software and hardware development for instrument field handling
- Advicing and preparation of GIPP supported projects
Projects:
Field Campaigns
- PISCO'94 Chile, Seismic and seismological studies of the Nazca plate
- TICOSECT'95 Costa Rica, Seismic imaging of Costa Rica Subduction Zone - active continental margin
- GRANU'95 Germany, Wide-angle seismic measurements in the Granulitgebirge
- CINCA'95 Chile, Seismic and seismological studies of the Nazca plate
- MAMBA'95 Namibia, Passive continental margin structure
- TICOSECT'96 Costa Rica, Seismic imaging of Costa Rica Subduction Zone - active continental margin
- VARNET'96 Ireland, A North-South seismic study across the Variscan Front in southwestern Ireland
- ANCORP'96 Chile, Near-vertical seismic imaging of the Nazca plate
- PUNA'97 Argentina and Chile, Deformation processes in the Andes
- TANGO'98 Argentina, Onshore-offshore seismic experiment in Argentina
- VRANCEA'99 Romania, Recent Stress Field and geodynamics of the South-East-Carpathians
- DESERT2000 Jordan and Israel, Interdisciplinary and multinational study of Dead Sea Transform
- VRANCEA'01 Romania, Recent Stress Field and geodynamics of the South-East-Carpathians
- SPOC'01 Chile, Subduction Processes Off-shore Chile
- TIPTEQ'05 Chile, From The Incoming Plate to mega-Thrust EarthQuake processes
Career:
- since 1992 Scientific employee at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, department of Deep Geophysical Sounding
- 1977-1991 Scientific employee at the Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde Potsdam, department of seismology
Education
- PhD in Geophysics (Dr. rer. nat., Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde -former East German Academy of Sciences), Title: "Data compression and triggering of seismic events by extrema-points sampling", Adviser: Ch. Teupser
- Diploma (Dipl.-Ing. of Technical and BioMedical Cybernetics, Technical University Ilmenau, Thuringia/Germany) , Thesis in mathematical modelling (Recursive Regression)
Experience:
Teaching Experience
- Lecturer at the International Training Courses on "Seismology and Seismic Hazard Assessment", each annual course from 1987 to 2004
- Fundamentals of Seismometry
- Fundamentals of Data Acquisition
- Seismometer Calibration
Skills
- Technical preparation of seismic field experiments
- Programming: FORTRAN, Pascal, and C @ DOS and LINUX systems; Delphi and VisualC @ Winxx and PocketWin; PocketC @ PalmOs
- Fluent in English - basic in Spanish - poor in Russian and French