Inhaltsbereich
Dr. Bernd Schurr
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 3.1, Lithosphere Dynamics
Telegrafenberg, C 223
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1313
Fax: +49 331 288 1370
Mail: bernd.schurr@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Seismology, seismo-tectonics, deep structure of collision zones, passive seismic imaging, tomography, earthquake source processes
Projects:
- IPOC - Integrated Plate boundary Observatory Chile
- TIPAGE – Tien Shan –Pamir Geodynamic Programme
Career:
- 2000 PhD, Geophysics, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1997 MSc, Geophysics, Coll. of Oceanic & Atmosph. Sciences, Oregon State University
- 1992 Vordiplom Geophysics, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Experience:
- 2007 – present Research scientist, GFZ Potsdam
- 2007 SS Visiting professor, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- 2001 – 2007 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria
- 2000 – 2001 Post Doc, GFZ Potsdam
Selected publications:
- Schurr, B., A. Rietbrock, G. Asch, R. Kind, and O. Oncken, Evidence for lithospheric detachment in the central Andes from local earthquake tomography, Tectonophysics 415, 203-223, doi:1O.1016/j.tecto.2005.12.007, 2006.
- Schurr, B. and A. Rietbrock, Deep seismic structure of the Salar de Atacama basin, Northern Chile, Geophysical. Research Letters 31, L12601, doi:10.1029/2004GL019796, 2004.
- Schurr, B., G. Asch, A. Rietbrock, R. Trumbull, and C. Haberland, Complex patterns of fluid and melt transport in the central Andean subduction zone revealed by attenuation tomography, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 215, 105-119, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00441-2, 2003.
- Haberland, C., A. Rietbrock, B. Schurr, and H. Brasse, Coincident anomalies of seismic attenuation and electrical resistivity beneath the southern Bolivian Altiplano, Geophysical Research Letters 30, doi:10.1029/2003GL017492, 2003.
- Bock, G., B. Schurr, and G. Asch, High resolution receiver function image of the subducted Nazca plate from converted waves, Geophysical Research Letters 20, No. 23, 3929-3932, 2000.
- X. Yuan, S. Sobolev, R. Kind, O. Oncken, G. Bock, G. Asch, B. Schurr, F. Graeber, A. Rudloff, W. Hanka, K. Wylegalla, R. Tibi, C. Haberland, A. Rietbrock, P. Giese, P. Wigger, P. Roewer, G. Zandt, S. Beck, T. Wallace, M. Pardo, D. Comte, Subduction and collision processes in the central Andes constrained by converted seismic phases, Nature 408, 958-961, 2000.
- Schurr, B., G. Asch, A. Rietbrock, R. Kind, M. Pardo, B. Heit, and T. Monfret, Seismicity and average velocity beneath the Argentine Puna plateau, Geophysical Research Letters 26, No. 19, 3025-3028, 1999.
- Schurr, B. and J. Nàbelek, New techniques for the analysis of earthquake sources from local array data with an application to the 1993 Scotts Mills, Oregon aftershock sequence, Geophysical Journal International 137, 585-600, 1999.