Newsletter
Dear
4D-MBers,
First, my apologies for being incommunicado
since February. There is
indeed lots to catch up on!
1.
New member: We finally have a chief scientific assistant, Dr.
Emanuel
Kaestle (emanuel.kaestle@fu-berlin.de), who joined us in
Berlin officially
2 weeks ago. Emanuel graduated with a PhD from
the Univ. of Paris VI on
the development of ambient noise
techniques to tease out the deep
structure of the Alps. He is
thus well positioned to help us with the
seismic campaign at
this stage of AlpArray. I am also relieved to have him
help with
administrative aspects of our SPP, which have really increased
in
number and volume since last summer. Emanuel will be in touch with
you
soon about installing a list-serv for all SPP members.
I
should note that Dr. Derya Gürer who was introduced forthis job at
our
November meeting in the meantime accepted a tenure-track
position at the
Univ. of Queensland in Australia. It was rough
to lose her, but her early
departure allowed us to catch Emanuel
soon thereafter. It turned out to be
a “win-win” situation
for all concerned.
2. Field trip to the Alps: As promised
I will lead a field trip across the
Eastern Alps for
4D-MB/AlpArray members, scheduled for Sept. 8-14, the
week after
the GeoBonn Meeting. I will send an outline around as soon
as
possible, but need to know already by the April 13 who will
come. The trip
is aimed at all 4D-MB/AlpArray members, with
particular focus on
geophysicists and thermomechanical
modellers, who may not have had the
opportunity yet to read the
geology on the surface of the mountains whose
deep structure
they are illuminating. Please pre-register by April 13 by
sending
your name and address to Emanuel (above).
3. Upcoming
4D-MB meetings: The next meeting required for all 4D-MB
members
will be held on Nov. 8-9, 2018, probably in Frankfurt. Please
reserve
these days. All groups should be ready to present projects. The
next
SPP Short Course will be held on Jan 31/Feb. 1 in 2019, devoted
to
“Tectonics of the Alpine-Mediterranean Mountains and
Basins”.
4. Upcoming international/national meetings:
Several meetings and
deadlines are coming up that you should
note carefully:
EGU in Vienna (April 9-13, 2018): There is
a special session for AlpArray
- (TS7.12/GD8.6/SM 4.13) The Alps
and neigbouring mountain belts
(Apennines, Dinarides,
Carpathians) - a multidisciplinary vision
(AlpArray). We look
forward to seeing you all at this session on
Wednesday, April
11, 8:30-12 and 13:30-15:00 in Room D2, Poster Session in
Hall
X, 17:30-19:00.
AlpArray Science Meeting at the ETH-Zürich
will be held on 29-30. August
2018 – information is
forthcoming from the coordinators in Zürich; visit
the new
AlpArray website at http://www.alparray.ethz.ch/en/home/
GeoBonn
Meeting at the Univ. of Bonn (2-6. Sept. 2018): We have a
special
session devoted to 4D-MB, and expect you to contribute.
See topic 3c at
the link
http://www.geobonn2018.de/themes-and-sessions.html
Thermo
2018 Meeting in Quedlinburg (Sept. 14-18, 2018): This is relevant
to
those of us working on surface processes and the thermal history
of
the
crust. Several of us are involved in this meeting. Here is
the link to the
program page: https://www.thermo2018.de/
- /conference-program
5. New and updated AlpArray website
- Have a look at the many activities
in all the member projects
of AlpArray
http://www.alparray.ethz.ch/en/home/.
You also visit the pages of the
research
groups
(http://www.alparray.ethz.ch/en/research/research-groups/overview/)
and
be
ready to join or create a new group in your field of
interest. Anyone with
news he AlpArray site should please pass
this on to Irene Molinari
(irene.molinari@erdw.ethz.ch) with a
copy to Emanuel (address above).
6. Current activities:
Apart from the international station network
(Array) itself,
which is up and running, all 163 stations in the dense
station
swath D were deployed by the end of last autumn, thanks for Ben
Heit
at GFZ for his persistence and patience, as well as to our
colleagues
from OGS-Trieste. Heidrun Kopp, her team from Kiel
and French colleagues
from Grenoble have been on the MS Merian
and successfully recovered the
ocean-bottom seismometers forming
the marine arm of AlpArray. If you’re
looking for adventure, I
can recommend her weekly reports and blogs on
our
website
(http://www.spp-mountainbuilding.de/archive/FS-Maria-S_-Merian-MSM71.html).
7.
Recent activities - SPP Short Course: Last February 1-2, we hosted
a
short course, entitled “Seismology for non-seismologists”
with an
excellent cast of colleagues and presentations. 26 PhDs
and postdocs
participated, X of whom were non-seismologists-
true to the name of the
course. The course program and lecture
notes can be down-loaded from our
website
(http://www.spp-mountainbuilding.de/short-course/index.html).
We
commissioned videos to be made of all the lectures, and these
too will
soon be available via links on our website. We’ll let
you know.
8. Outreach: We have featured in several
magazine and newspaper articles,
including a story in “Bild
der
Wissenschaft”
(http://www.spp-mountainbuilding.de/outreach/AlpArray_Bild-der-Wissenschaft_2_2018.pdf),
thanks
to Michael Weber and his contacts. These are all down-loadable
or
linked on our website. So far, the articles highlight
geophysical aspects
of 4D-MB, which reflects on the current
early stage of 4D-MB and AlpArray.
I am sure this will become
more balanced as 4D-MB progresses. However, we
depend on YOU to
reach out to local papers and media, also social media,
in order
to bring our exciting work to the public! Please report these
to
Emanuel so we can put them on our website.
Best
wishes,
Mark, Emanuel and Michael
Mark
R. Handy
Professor für Geologie (Tektonik)
Institut für
Geologische Wissenschaften
Freie Universität
Berlin
Malteserstrasse 74-100
D-12249 Berlin
Tel.
+49-(0)30-838-70311
Email: mark.handy@fu-berlin.de
-- Dr. Emanuel D. Kästle Freie Universität Berlin Institute of Geological Sciences Building B Malteserstraße 74-100 D-12249 Berlin Phone +49 - 30 - 838 64746