Dr.
Gesa Petersen
Building
H 7,
Room
202 (Büro)
Helmholtzstraße 6/7
14467
Potsdam
Research Interests:
- Moment tensor inversion
- Regional seismicity & Earthquake swarms
- Machine Learning/ Deep Learning/ Clustering
- Array Seismology
Career:
- 2024-today: Researcher
- 2023-2024: PostDoc, GFZ, AlpArray project
- 2022: PostDoc & Duty-Seismologist, University of Utah, USA
- 2017-2021: PreDoc & PostDoc, GFZ, AlpArray project
Education:
- 2017-2021: Dr. rer. nat., Geophysics, GFZ & Univ. Potsdam (thesis: Source studies of small earthquakes in the AlpArray: CMT inversion, seismo-tectonic analysis and methodological developments.
- 2014-2017: M.Sc., Geosciences, Univ. Potsdam (thesis: Source array and receiver array analysis of Vogtland/ West Bohemia earthquake clusters)
- 2013-2014: Erasmus Exchange Semester, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
- 2011-2014: B.Sc., Geosciences, Univ. Potsdam (thesis: Auswertung von T-Phasen Beobachtungen im DOCTAR Experiment)
Projects:
Waveform-based clustering of earthquakes:
- https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa568
- tool & documentation: Clusty
From Top to Bottom - Seismicity, Motion Patterns & Stress Distribution in the Alpine Crust (Mountain Building Processes in Four Dimensions 4D-MB -- AlpArray)
- Toolbox for automated quality control of seismic networks: AutoStatsQ,
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MT Inversion of Alpine Earthquakes 2016-2019 - Methodological tests & results:
- Microseismicity in the SE Alps (Swath-D) - MT inversion, clustering, relocations, active faults:
https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB030516
Seismic swarms in the transition between Basin-and-Range and Colorado Plateau, Utah (US)
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Overview of 40 years of swarm activity:
https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC010867
The 2023 Southeast Türkiye Seismic Sequence: Rupture of a Complex Fault Network:
Automated Quality Control of seismic networks:
- AutoStatsQ tool and documentation: https://github.com/gesape/AutoStatsQ
- AutoStatsQ publication: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180342