apl. Prof. Dr. Frank Krüger

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Universität Potsdam,
Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften

apl. Prof. Dr. Frank Krüger
Haus 27, Raum 1.36

Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm

E-Mail:
kruegerf@geo.uni-potsdam.de
Telefon:
+49 331 977 5813
Fax:
+49331 977 5700
apl. Prof. Dr. Frank Krüger

 

  • Biografie
  • Forschung
  • Lehre
  • Publikationen

Biografie

1979-1978
Studies in Physics at the University of Braunschweig
1979-1983
Studies in Physics at the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg
1983
Diploma in Physics, Thesis in high energy particle physics, advisor Prof. Dr. Wegener
1985-1989
PhD student in the research project "Seismic verification of a controlled test ban" (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Auswärtiges Amt (AA)) at the Seismological Central Observatory in Erlangen.
1990
PhD in Physics at the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg, advisors Prof. Dr. Wegener and Prof. Dr. Harjes, title of the thesis: "Investigation of the seismic source function of underground nuclear test explosions at the Kazakhstan test site".
1991-1997
Postdoc in several research projects (Investigation of lower mantle structure using nuclear explosion signals and seismic arrays (LMU, Univ. of Munich), Inversion of moment tensors using broadband seismograms (Seismol. Central Obs.), Investigation of the structure of subduction zones using combinations of deep earthquake clusters as source arrays and the receiver arrays GRF and GRSN (double beam method) (LMU, Univ. of Munich, also teaching responsibilities).
Since 1997
Researcher/lecturer (permanent) at the Institute of Geosciences in Potsdam.
Since 2009
Associate Professor (außerplanmäßiger Professor) at the Institute of Geosciences in Potsdam.

Forschung

Imaging of lower mantle structure using array methods, inversion for seismic source parameters, neotectonics in Norway, characteristics of ocean microseisms and their use for Earth structure investigation, broadband array seismology methods.

Ongoing Projects

IPY Project Bear Island Array
Teleseismic tracking of the rupture propagation of earthquakes in real time to identify tsunamogenic earthquakes - the project being part of GITEWS - German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System
GITEWS

DFG Projekt KINHERD

Ocean Upper Mantle Initiative

The oceanic lithosphere and its interaction with mantle convection

Lehre

- Theory of elastic waves
- Seismic source theory
- Numerical methods in geophysics 
- Array seismology
- Seismogram interpretation

Publikationen

 Czuba, W., Grad, M., Mjelde, R., Guterch, A., Libak, A., Krüger, F., Murai, Y., J. Schweitzer, and the IPY project group, 2011., Continent–ocean-transition across a trans-tensional margin segment: off Bear Island, Barents Sea, Geophys., J. Int., 184/2, 541–554, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04873.x
 Blaser, L., Krüger, F., Ohrnberger, M., Scherbaum, F., 2010. Scaling relations of earthquake source parameter estimates with special focus on subduction environment, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 100, 2914-2926.
 Roessler, D., Krüger, F., Ohrnberger, M., and L. Ehlert, 2010.  Rapid characterisation of large earthquakes by multiple seismic broadband arrays, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 923-932, 2010. direct link, doi:10.5194/nhess-10-923-2010.
Kieling, K., Roessler, D., Krüger, F., 2010. Receiver function study in northern Sumatra and the Malaysia peninsula, . J. Seismol., doi:10.1007/s10950-010-9222-7.
Rössler, D., Krüger, F., Psencik, I., and Rümpker, G., 2008. Comments to "Retrieval of source parameters of an event of the 2000 West Bohemia earthquake swarm assuming an anisotropic crust. Stud. Geophys. Geod.
Kulesh, M., Diallo, M., Holschneider, M., Kurennaya, K., Krüger, F., Ohrnberger, M., and Scherbaum, F., 2007. Polarization Analysis in Wavelet Domain Based on the Adaptive Covariance Method. Geophysical Journal International, 170 (2), 667-678.
Rössler, D., Krüger, F., Psencik, I., and Rümpker, G., 2007. Retrieval of source parameters of an event of the 2000 West Bohemia earthquake swarm assuming an anisotropic crust. Stud. Geophys. Geod., 51, 231-254.
Rössler, D., Krüger, F., and Rümpker, G., 2007. Retrieval of moment tensors due to dislocation point sources in anisotropic media using standard techniques. Geophysical Journal International, 169, 136-148.
Rössler, D., Krüger, F., and Rümpker, G., 2007. Inversion for seismic moment tensors in anisotropic media using standard techniques for isotropic media. Geophysical Journal International.
Krüger, F., and Ohrnberger, M., 2005. Rapid imaging of the spatio-temporal source characteristics of the Dec 26, 2004, Sumatra earthquake by teleseismic broadband arrays. Geophysical Research Letters, 32 (24), L24312, doi:10.1029/2005GL023939.
Dahm, T., Krüger, F., Essen, H.-H., and Hensch, M., 2005. Historic microseismic data and their relation to the wave-climate in the North Atlantic. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, (special volume SFB512), 14 (6), 771-779.
Krüger, F., and Ohrnberger, M., 2005. Tracking the rupture of the Mw = 9.3 Sumatra earthquake over 1150 km at teleseismic distance. Nature, 435 (7044), 937-939 (16. June 2005) doi: 10.1038/nature03696.
Kito, T., Krüger, F., and Negishi, H., 2004. Seismic heterogeneous structure in the lowermost mantle beneath the southwestern Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 109 (B9), B09304.
Ohrnberger, M., Scherbaum, F., Krüger, F., Pelzing, R., and Reamer, Sh.-K., 2004. How good are shear wave velocity models obtained from inversion of ambient vibrations in the Lower Rhine Embayment (NW-Germany). Boll. Geof. Teor. Appl., 45 (3), 215-232.
Rössler, D., Rümpker, G., and Krüger, F., 2004. Ambigous moment tensors and radiation pattern in anisotropic media with applications to the modeling of Earthquake Mechanisms in W-Bohemia. Studia Geophysica Et Geodaetica, 48 (1), 233-250.
Essen, H. H., Krüger, F., Dahm, T., and Grevemeyer, I., 2003. On the generation of secondary microseism observed in north and central Europe. Journal Geophys. Res., 108, B10, 2506.
Krüger, F., and Klinge, K., 2002. The 1996 Teutschenthal potash mine collapse: An unusual event with an unusual mechanism, in "Ten years of German Regional Seismic Network (GRSN)". Report 25 of the Senate Commission for Geosciences of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Wiley VCH Verlag, 206-211.
Krüger, F., and Dahm, T., 2002. The 1992 Roermond event, a regional event study, in "Ten years of German Regional Seismic Network (GRSN)". Report 25 of the Senate Commission for Geosciences of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Wiley VCH Verlag, 199-206.
Krüger, F., Scherbaum, F., Rosa, J. W. C., Kind, R., Zetsche, F., and Höhne, J., 2002. Crustal and upper mantle structure of the Amazon region (Brazil), determined with broadband mobile stations. Journal Geophys. Res., 107, 2265.
Kito, T., and Krüger, F., 2001. Heterogeneities in D" beneath the southwestern Pacific inferred from scattered and reflected P-waves. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2545-2548.
Krüger, F., Baumann, M., Scherbaum, F., and Weber, M., 2001. Mid mantle scatterers near the Mariana slab detected with a double array method., Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 667-670.
Freybourger, M., Chevrot, S., Krüger, F., and Achauer, U., 2001. A waveform migration for the investigation of P wave structure at the top of D" beneath northern Siberia. Journal Geophys. Res., 106, 4129-4140.
Franke, D., Krüger, F., and Klinge, K., 2000. Tectonics of the Laptev Sea – Moma Rift region: Investigation with seismologic broadband data. Journal of Seismology, 4, 99-116.
Freybourger, M., Krüger, F., and Achauer, U., 1999. A 22 degree long seismic profile for the study of the top of D", Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 3409-3412.
Dahm, T., and Krüger, F., 1999. Higher degree moment tensor inversion using far-field broadband recordings: Theory and evaluation of the method with application to the 1994 Bolivia deep earthquake. Geophys. J. Int., 137, 35-50.
Friedrich, A., Krüger, F., and Klinge, K., 1998. Ocean generated microseismic noise located with the Gräfenberg array. Journal of Seismology, 2, 47-64.
Grosser, H., Baumbach, M., Schelle, H., Michel, G., Berckhemer, H., Baier, B., Karahan, A., Paulat, A., Schmidt, H. G., Krüger, F., Gencoglu, S., and Yilmaz, R., 1998. The Erzincan (Turkey) earthquake (Ms 6.8) of March 13, 1992 and ist aftershock sequence. PAGEOPH, 152, 465-505.
Weber, M., Wicks, C. W., Krüger, F., Jahnke, G., and Schlittenhardt, J., 1998. Asymmetric radiation of seismic waves from an atoll – Nuclear tests in French Polynesia. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1967-1970.
Brechner, S., Klinge, K., Krüger, F., and Plenefisch, T., 1998. Backazimuthal variations of splitting parameters of teleseismic SKS phases observed at the broadband stations in Germany. PAGEOPH, 151, 305-331.
Scherbaum, F., Krüger, F., and Weber, M., 1997. Double Beam Imaging: Mapping lower mantle heterogeneities using combinations of source and receiver arrays. Journal Geophys. Res., 102, 507-522.
Weber, M., Davis, J. P., Thomas, C., Krüger, F., Scherbaum, F., Schlittenhardt, J., and Körnig, M., 1996. The structure of the lowermost mantle determined from using seismic arrays. in: E. Boschi, G. Ekström, A. Morelli (Eds.). Seismic Modelling of Earth Structure, Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Rome, pp. 399-442.
Krüger, F., and Stammler, K., 1996. The German Regional Seismic Network used as a longperiod array. Tire a part des cahiers du centre europeen de geodynamique et de seismologie, 12, 251-260.
Krüger, F., Scherbaum, F., Weber, M., and Schlittenhardt, J., 1996. Analysis of asymmetric multipathing with a genaralization of the Double Beam Method. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 86, 737-749.
Krüger, F., Weber, M., Scherbaum, F., and Schlittenhardt, J., 1995. Normal and inhomogeneous lowermost mantle and core-mantle boundary under the Arctic and northern Canada. Geophys. J. Int., 122, 637-658.
Krüger, F., 1994. Sediment structure at GRF from polarization analysis of P waves of nuclear explosions. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 84, 149-170.
Krüger, F., Weber, M., Scherbaum, F., and Schlittenhardt, J., 1993. Double beam analysis of anomalies in the core-mantle boundary region. Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 1475-1478.

 

 

 

 

Biografie

1979-1978
Studies in Physics at the University of Braunschweig
1979-1983
Studies in Physics at the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg
1983
Diploma in Physics, Thesis in high energy particle physics, advisor Prof. Dr. Wegener
1985-1989
PhD student in the research project "Seismic verification of a controlled test ban" (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Auswärtiges Amt (AA)) at the Seismological Central Observatory in Erlangen.
1990
PhD in Physics at the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg, advisors Prof. Dr. Wegener and Prof. Dr. Harjes, title of the thesis: "Investigation of the seismic source function of underground nuclear test explosions at the Kazakhstan test site".
1991-1997
Postdoc in several research projects (Investigation of lower mantle structure using nuclear explosion signals and seismic arrays (LMU, Univ. of Munich), Inversion of moment tensors using broadband seismograms (Seismol. Central Obs.), Investigation of the structure of subduction zones using combinations of deep earthquake clusters as source arrays and the receiver arrays GRF and GRSN (double beam method) (LMU, Univ. of Munich, also teaching responsibilities).
Since 1997
Researcher/lecturer (permanent) at the Institute of Geosciences in Potsdam.
Since 2009
Associate Professor (außerplanmäßiger Professor) at the Institute of Geosciences in Potsdam.

Forschung

Imaging of lower mantle structure using array methods, inversion for seismic source parameters, neotectonics in Norway, characteristics of ocean microseisms and their use for Earth structure investigation, broadband array seismology methods.

Ongoing Projects

IPY Project Bear Island Array
Teleseismic tracking of the rupture propagation of earthquakes in real time to identify tsunamogenic earthquakes - the project being part of GITEWS - German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System
GITEWS

DFG Projekt KINHERD

Ocean Upper Mantle Initiative

The oceanic lithosphere and its interaction with mantle convection

Lehre

- Theory of elastic waves
- Seismic source theory
- Numerical methods in geophysics 
- Array seismology
- Seismogram interpretation

Publikationen

 Czuba, W., Grad, M., Mjelde, R., Guterch, A., Libak, A., Krüger, F., Murai, Y., J. Schweitzer, and the IPY project group, 2011., Continent–ocean-transition across a trans-tensional margin segment: off Bear Island, Barents Sea, Geophys., J. Int., 184/2, 541–554, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04873.x
 Blaser, L., Krüger, F., Ohrnberger, M., Scherbaum, F., 2010. Scaling relations of earthquake source parameter estimates with special focus on subduction environment, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 100, 2914-2926.
 Roessler, D., Krüger, F., Ohrnberger, M., and L. Ehlert, 2010.  Rapid characterisation of large earthquakes by multiple seismic broadband arrays, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 923-932, 2010. direct link, doi:10.5194/nhess-10-923-2010.
Kieling, K., Roessler, D., Krüger, F., 2010. Receiver function study in northern Sumatra and the Malaysia peninsula, . J. Seismol., doi:10.1007/s10950-010-9222-7.
Rössler, D., Krüger, F., Psencik, I., and Rümpker, G., 2008. Comments to "Retrieval of source parameters of an event of the 2000 West Bohemia earthquake swarm assuming an anisotropic crust. Stud. Geophys. Geod.
Kulesh, M., Diallo, M., Holschneider, M., Kurennaya, K., Krüger, F., Ohrnberger, M., and Scherbaum, F., 2007. Polarization Analysis in Wavelet Domain Based on the Adaptive Covariance Method. Geophysical Journal International, 170 (2), 667-678.
Rössler, D., Krüger, F., Psencik, I., and Rümpker, G., 2007. Retrieval of source parameters of an event of the 2000 West Bohemia earthquake swarm assuming an anisotropic crust. Stud. Geophys. Geod., 51, 231-254.
Rössler, D., Krüger, F., and Rümpker, G., 2007. Retrieval of moment tensors due to dislocation point sources in anisotropic media using standard techniques. Geophysical Journal International, 169, 136-148.
Rössler, D., Krüger, F., and Rümpker, G., 2007. Inversion for seismic moment tensors in anisotropic media using standard techniques for isotropic media. Geophysical Journal International.
Krüger, F., and Ohrnberger, M., 2005. Rapid imaging of the spatio-temporal source characteristics of the Dec 26, 2004, Sumatra earthquake by teleseismic broadband arrays. Geophysical Research Letters, 32 (24), L24312, doi:10.1029/2005GL023939.
Dahm, T., Krüger, F., Essen, H.-H., and Hensch, M., 2005. Historic microseismic data and their relation to the wave-climate in the North Atlantic. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, (special volume SFB512), 14 (6), 771-779.
Krüger, F., and Ohrnberger, M., 2005. Tracking the rupture of the Mw = 9.3 Sumatra earthquake over 1150 km at teleseismic distance. Nature, 435 (7044), 937-939 (16. June 2005) doi: 10.1038/nature03696.
Kito, T., Krüger, F., and Negishi, H., 2004. Seismic heterogeneous structure in the lowermost mantle beneath the southwestern Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 109 (B9), B09304.
Ohrnberger, M., Scherbaum, F., Krüger, F., Pelzing, R., and Reamer, Sh.-K., 2004. How good are shear wave velocity models obtained from inversion of ambient vibrations in the Lower Rhine Embayment (NW-Germany). Boll. Geof. Teor. Appl., 45 (3), 215-232.
Rössler, D., Rümpker, G., and Krüger, F., 2004. Ambigous moment tensors and radiation pattern in anisotropic media with applications to the modeling of Earthquake Mechanisms in W-Bohemia. Studia Geophysica Et Geodaetica, 48 (1), 233-250.
Essen, H. H., Krüger, F., Dahm, T., and Grevemeyer, I., 2003. On the generation of secondary microseism observed in north and central Europe. Journal Geophys. Res., 108, B10, 2506.
Krüger, F., and Klinge, K., 2002. The 1996 Teutschenthal potash mine collapse: An unusual event with an unusual mechanism, in "Ten years of German Regional Seismic Network (GRSN)". Report 25 of the Senate Commission for Geosciences of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Wiley VCH Verlag, 206-211.
Krüger, F., and Dahm, T., 2002. The 1992 Roermond event, a regional event study, in "Ten years of German Regional Seismic Network (GRSN)". Report 25 of the Senate Commission for Geosciences of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Wiley VCH Verlag, 199-206.
Krüger, F., Scherbaum, F., Rosa, J. W. C., Kind, R., Zetsche, F., and Höhne, J., 2002. Crustal and upper mantle structure of the Amazon region (Brazil), determined with broadband mobile stations. Journal Geophys. Res., 107, 2265.
Kito, T., and Krüger, F., 2001. Heterogeneities in D" beneath the southwestern Pacific inferred from scattered and reflected P-waves. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2545-2548.
Krüger, F., Baumann, M., Scherbaum, F., and Weber, M., 2001. Mid mantle scatterers near the Mariana slab detected with a double array method., Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 667-670.
Freybourger, M., Chevrot, S., Krüger, F., and Achauer, U., 2001. A waveform migration for the investigation of P wave structure at the top of D" beneath northern Siberia. Journal Geophys. Res., 106, 4129-4140.
Franke, D., Krüger, F., and Klinge, K., 2000. Tectonics of the Laptev Sea – Moma Rift region: Investigation with seismologic broadband data. Journal of Seismology, 4, 99-116.
Freybourger, M., Krüger, F., and Achauer, U., 1999. A 22 degree long seismic profile for the study of the top of D", Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 3409-3412.
Dahm, T., and Krüger, F., 1999. Higher degree moment tensor inversion using far-field broadband recordings: Theory and evaluation of the method with application to the 1994 Bolivia deep earthquake. Geophys. J. Int., 137, 35-50.
Friedrich, A., Krüger, F., and Klinge, K., 1998. Ocean generated microseismic noise located with the Gräfenberg array. Journal of Seismology, 2, 47-64.
Grosser, H., Baumbach, M., Schelle, H., Michel, G., Berckhemer, H., Baier, B., Karahan, A., Paulat, A., Schmidt, H. G., Krüger, F., Gencoglu, S., and Yilmaz, R., 1998. The Erzincan (Turkey) earthquake (Ms 6.8) of March 13, 1992 and ist aftershock sequence. PAGEOPH, 152, 465-505.
Weber, M., Wicks, C. W., Krüger, F., Jahnke, G., and Schlittenhardt, J., 1998. Asymmetric radiation of seismic waves from an atoll – Nuclear tests in French Polynesia. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1967-1970.
Brechner, S., Klinge, K., Krüger, F., and Plenefisch, T., 1998. Backazimuthal variations of splitting parameters of teleseismic SKS phases observed at the broadband stations in Germany. PAGEOPH, 151, 305-331.
Scherbaum, F., Krüger, F., and Weber, M., 1997. Double Beam Imaging: Mapping lower mantle heterogeneities using combinations of source and receiver arrays. Journal Geophys. Res., 102, 507-522.
Weber, M., Davis, J. P., Thomas, C., Krüger, F., Scherbaum, F., Schlittenhardt, J., and Körnig, M., 1996. The structure of the lowermost mantle determined from using seismic arrays. in: E. Boschi, G. Ekström, A. Morelli (Eds.). Seismic Modelling of Earth Structure, Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Rome, pp. 399-442.
Krüger, F., and Stammler, K., 1996. The German Regional Seismic Network used as a longperiod array. Tire a part des cahiers du centre europeen de geodynamique et de seismologie, 12, 251-260.
Krüger, F., Scherbaum, F., Weber, M., and Schlittenhardt, J., 1996. Analysis of asymmetric multipathing with a genaralization of the Double Beam Method. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 86, 737-749.
Krüger, F., Weber, M., Scherbaum, F., and Schlittenhardt, J., 1995. Normal and inhomogeneous lowermost mantle and core-mantle boundary under the Arctic and northern Canada. Geophys. J. Int., 122, 637-658.
Krüger, F., 1994. Sediment structure at GRF from polarization analysis of P waves of nuclear explosions. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 84, 149-170.
Krüger, F., Weber, M., Scherbaum, F., and Schlittenhardt, J., 1993. Double beam analysis of anomalies in the core-mantle boundary region. Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 1475-1478.