Recent and current projects

3D structure beneath Iranian plateau using adjoint tomography, 2020-2024, Goethe university Frankfurt

Seismological observation of deep volcanic processes of the Klyuchevskoy Volcanic Group in Kamchatka, 2020 – 2024, DFG

Identifying Main Lithospheric Structures in the Eastern  Alpine Domain by Joint Inversion of Receiver Function and Surface Wave Measurements for Seismic Anisotropy, 2020 – 2024, DFG

Remote seismic monitoring of deep geothermal prospects – project SEIGER, 2019 – 2023, BMWK

Characterization and correction of seismic noise generated by wind turbines – project KWISS, 2019 – 2022, BMWK

The deformation of the Earth’s mantle under the Alps and the physics of subduction-polarity reversals: constraints from thermo-mechanical modeling, seismic anisotropy and waveform modeling, 2017 – 2020, DFG

UNIBRA/DSEBRA – the German seismological contribution to AlpArray / SPP 4D-Mountain Building, 2017 – 2020, DFG

Assembly and breakup of Gondwana - seismological signatures in the lithosphere/asthenosphere system of Southern Madagascar, 2015 – 2018, DFG

Seismic anisotropy and discontinuities of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath La Réunion and the southern Mascarene Plateau, 2014 – 2017, DFG

Regional phase attenuation across the Zagros, 2014 – 2016, Missouri University

FERRY: Monitoring geothermal power plants by seismological array methods, 2013 – 2016, BMWi 


FERRY

Seismische Fernüberwachung geothermischer Kraftwerke mittels Arraytechnologien -

Seismological monitoring of geothermal power plants using array technologies (funded by BMWi).


Madagascar

Assembly and breakup of Gondwana –

seismological signatures in the lithosphere/asthenosphere system of Southern Madagascar (SELASOMA)

Collaboration with GFZ Potsdam (Frederik Tilmann, Xiaohui Yuan) and FU-Berli (Jörg Giese).


RHUM-RUM

Seismic anisotropy and discontinuities of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath La Réunion and the southern Mascarene Plateau

as part of the German-French RHUM-RUM project (www.rhum-rum.net).


Riftlink

Lithospheric structure and seismicity of the Rwenzori mountains as part of the Albertine rift system

as part of the DFG-funded RiftLink research group (www.riftlink.de)


SiMoN

Seismic monitoring in relation to deep geothermal projects within the northern Upper Rhinegraben (funded by BMU, BMWi).


Subduction-zone discontinuities and mantle deformation

Discontinuities and mantle deformation at subduction zones of  South America and Indonesia

Publication:

Wölbern, I. Löbl. U. & Rümpker, G., 2014, Crustal origin of trench-parallel shear-wave fast polarizations in the Central Andes, Earth Planet.Sci. Lett., 392, 230-238, (doi).


Zagros

Regional Phase Attenuation Across the Zagros:

A detailed investigation of Regional Phase Amplitude Behavior Across a Plate Boundary

Collaboration with University of Missouri (Eric Sandvol)