Dr. Silke Mechernich, Dipl. Geol.
EOST - Institut de Physique du Globe (UMR 7516)
5, rue René Descartes
67084 Strasbourg Cedex France
Tel: +33 (0)368 850 103
Email: mechernich.s [at] gmail.com
Room: 506
Active Tectonics (Neotectonics and Paleoseismology)
Quaternary dating methods (particularly cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating and OSL dating)
Since April 2012: Postdoc at the Institut de Physique du Globe, Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, University of Strasbourg, France.
Oct 2011 - March 2012: Research and Teaching Assistant, Chair of Endogen and Structural Geology, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, University of Münster, Germany.
2008 - 2011: Doctoral student at the Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, University of Münster, Germany.
2002 - 2008: Diplom student in Geologie & Paläontologie, University of Bonn, Germany.
Rock recognition and genesis (Übungen zur Vorlesung "Die Erde"), 1st semester BSc. Geowissenschaften, University of Münster, WS 2011/2012.
Rock recognition and genesis (Übungen zur Vorlesung "Die Erde"), 1st semester BSc. Landschaftsökologie, University of Münster, WS 2011/2012.
Alpentraverse July 2008: excursion and mapping, 7 days, MSc, together with Prof. R. Hetzel University of Münster.
April 2013: Young Scientist's Travel Award for Europeans: Travel grant for the EGU General Assembly 2013.
November 2012: Hildegard- und Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld Preis for the best doctoral thesis in 2011 at the Departments for Mineralogy and for Geology and Paleontology, University of Münster, press release.
August 2011: European Science Foundation (ESF) Grant for attending the ESF-LUFI Conference on Cosmogenic Nuclides in Obergurgl, Austria.
Summer 2005: Scholarship of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for 8-weeks of Diplom mapping in the Rila Mountains, Bulgaria.
Since 2012: PALET Project: Paleoseismology, paleotsunamis and uplift rates of the NE Japan subduction zone and relationships with the 2011 M9 Tohoku earthquake: Constraints on the seismic cycle. Funding by ANR (L'Agence nationale de la recherche, France).
2008-2011: Rates of thrust faulting at the front of the Precordillera in western Argentina: Implications for the seismic hazard in Mendoza city from surface exposure dating and paleoseismology. Funded by DFG: HE 1704/6-1.
2006-2008: Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Western Rhodope Complex – A record of multiple continent collision? Funded by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service): SCH and DFG (German Research Foundation): FR 700/10-1.
H-index: 3 as of March 2013 (33 citations), Web of Science
Salomon, E., Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F. & Hampel, A. (2013): Repeated folding during late Holocene earthquakes on the La Cal thrust fault near Mendoza city (Argentina). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 103 (2), 936-949. PDF
Schmidt, S., Tsukamoto, S., Salomon, E., Frechen, M. & Hetzel, R. (2012): Optical dating of alluvial deposits at the orogenic front of the Andean Precordillera (Mendoza, Argentina). Geochronometria 39, 62-75. PDF
Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F. & Ramos, V.A. (2011): Coseismic displacements and Holocene slip rates for two active thrust faults at the mountain front of the Andean Precordillera (~33°S). Tectonics 30, TC5011. PDF
Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Kuhlmann, J., Mingorance, F. & Ramos, V.A. (2011): A note of caution on the use of boulders for exposure dating of depositional surfaces. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 302, 60-70. PDF
Nagel T.J., Schmidt, S., Janák, M., Froitzheim, N., Jahn-Awe, S. & Georgiev, N. (2011): The exposed base of a collapsing wedge – the Nestos Shear Zone (Rhodope Metamorphic Province, Greece). Tectonics 30, TC4009. PDF
Schmidt, S., Nagel, T.J. & Froitzheim, N. (2010): A new occurrence of microdiamond-bearing metamorphic rocks, SW Rhodopes, Greece. European Journal of Mineralogy 22, 189-198. PDF
Tueckmantel, C., Schmidt, S., Neisen, M., Geogiev, N., Nagel, T.J. & Froitzheim, N. (2008): The Rila-Pastra Normal Fault and multi-stage extensional unroofing in the Rila Mountains (SW Bulgaria). Swiss Journal of Geosciences 101, 295-310. PDF
Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F., Ramos, V.A., Kubik, P. (2012): Holocene slip rates of two Andean thrust faults. Annual report of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, p. 64. PDF
(* oral presentation, - poster presentation)
*Meghraoui, M., Mechernich, S., Haraguchi, T., Cetin, E., Toda, S., Okumura, K., Ferry, M. & Tsutsumi, H. (2013): Insights into the Tohoku earthquake rupture history from coastal uplift and tsunami deposits. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-6009-2, Vienna, 07.-12. April 2013.
-Meghraoui, M., Mechernich, S., Cetin, E., Haraguchi, T., Ferry, M., Okumura, K., Toda, S. & Tsutsumi, H. (2013): The PALET project: Paleoseismology, paleotsunamis and uplift rates of NE Japan and their relationship to the seismic cycle. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-5904, Vienna, 07.-12. April 2013.
*Mechernich, S., Meghraoui, M., Cetin, E., Toda, S. & Okumura, K. (2013): Millennial coastal uplift rates and the seismic cycle in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake area, Japan. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-436-1, Vienna, 07.-12. April 2013.
-Salomon, E., Schmidt-Mechernich, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F. & Hampel, A. (2013): Repeated folding during late Holocene earthquakes on the La Cal thrust fault near Mendoza city (Argentina). Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-1386, EGU2013, Vienna, 07.-12. April 2013.
*Toda, S., Meghraoui,M., Ferry, M., Tsutsumi, H., Mechernich, S., Haraguchi, T., Okumura, K. & Cetin, E. (2013) Paleoseismology and paleotsunamis of the NE Japan subduction zone and relationships with the 2011, M9 Tohoku earthquake: Constraints on the seismic cycle (PALET), J-Rapid Symosium, 6.-7. March 2013, Sendai, Japan.
*Mechernich, S., Meghraoui, M., Toda, S., Cetin, E. & Okumura, K. (2012): Constraint of the active coastal deformation and seismic cycle in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake area. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 03.-07. December 2012, Oral G21B-04.
*Toda, S. Meghraoui, M., Tsutsumi, H., Ferry, M., Haraguchi, T., Mechernich, S. & Okumura, K., (2012): The 2011 M=9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake, its seismic cycle, and postseismic hazard viewed from onshore geologic and geomorphic investigations. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 03.-07. December 2012, Oral G52A-06.
-Salomon, E., Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Mingorance, F. & Ramos, V.A. (2012): Shortening rates at the mountain front of the Andean Precordillera (Argentina) on timescales of millions, thousands and a few years. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 03.-07. December 2012, Poster T43A-2639.
*Schmidt, S., Meghraoui,M., Okumura, K., Cetin, E. & Toda, S. (2012): Vertical deformation of northeastern Honshu coastline: from minutes to thousands of years –Implications on the earthquake cycle along the Japan trench. Wegener Assembly, Strasbourg, France, 17.-20. September 2012.
*Meghraoui,M., Toda, S., Ferry, M., Schmidt, S., Tsutsumi, T., Okumura, K. & Haragushi, T. (2012): Constraint of the interseismic deformation in the Mw 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake area: Insights from paleogeodesy and paleoseismology. Wegener Assembly, Strasbourg, France, 17.-20. September 2012.
*Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Salomon, E., Mingorance, F. & Hampel, A. (2012): Coseismic displacements and Holocene slip rates for two thrust faults at the mountain front of the Andean Precordillera (~33°S). Wegener Assembly, Strasbourg, France, 17.-20. September 2012.
-Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R. & Kuhlmann, J. (2011): 10Be exposure dating of depositional surfaces at the eastern Andes: A note of caution on the use of boulders. ESF-LFUI Conference Cosmogenic Nuclides, Obergurgl, Austria, 08.-13. August 2011.
-Reicherter, K., Wiatr, T., Haberzettl, T., Schmidt, S., Kasper, T. & Frenzel, P. (2011): Active tectonics in the northern Tangra Yum Co Basin (central Tibet, VR China). INQUA Congress Bern, 20.-27. July 2011.
*Schmidt, S., Hetzel, R., Tsukamoto, S. & Frechen, M. (2011): 10Be, 14C and OSL dating of alluvial sediments from the eastern Andes. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 13, EGU2011-6793, Vienna, 03.-08. April 2011.
-Reicherter, K., Wiatr, T. Haberzettl, T., Schmidt, S., Kasper, T. & Frenzel, P. (2011): Active tectonics in the northern Tangra Yum Co Basin (central Tibet). Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 13, EGU2011-11927-2, Vienna, 03.-08. April 2011.
-Schmidt, S., Nagel, T.J. & Froitzheim, N. (2011): The age of UHP metamorphism and the exhumation path of microdiamond-bearing rocks (SW Rhodopes, Greece). Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 13, EGU2011-127, Vienna, 03.-08. April 2011.
-Wiatr, T., Reicherter, K., Frenzel, P., Schmidt, S., Haberzettl, T., Kasper, T. & Wrozyna, C. (2011): Lake level variations of Tangra Yum Co by remote sensing and ground truthing. 7th Sino-German Workshop on Tibetan Plateau Research, Hamburg, 02.-06. March 2011.
-Reicherter, K., Wiatr, T., Zhu, L., Wang, J., Haberzettl, T., Kasper, T., Frenzel, T., Daut, G., Hetzel, R. & Schmidt, S. (2011): Neotectonics and Quaternary lake evolution of Tangra Yum Co, central Tibetan Plateau. 7th Sino-German Workshop on Tibetan Plateau Research, Hamburg, 02.-06. March 2011.
*Frenzel, P., Daut, G., Ferse, S., Frechen, M., Haberzettl, T., Hetzel, R., Hoelzmann, P., Kasper, T., Lin, D., Mäusbacher, R., Mischke, S., Möbius, I., Ping, P., Reicherter, K., Schmidt, S. Schwalb, A., Schwarz, A., Wang, J., Wiatr, T., Wrozyna, C. & Zhu, L. (2011): The Tangra Yumco lake system (central Tibetan Plateau) and first insights into its Quaternary lake level variation. 7th Sino-German Workshop on Tibetan Plateau Research, Hamburg, 02.-06. March 2011.
