Biografie

2005-2006

A. Cox Professor at Stanford University

Since 1995

Full Professor, Chair of Geology, Universität Potsdam, Germany

1993-1995

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

1991

Habilitation thesis, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

1987-1993

Hochschulassistent, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

1987

Ph.D. in Geology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1986-1987

Research Assitant, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

1984-1985

Research Assistant, Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina

Forschung

Research Interests

Evolution of tectonic stress fields through time, relation between climate and tectonics and their influence on erosion and sedimentation patterns in time and space, paleoseismology, earthquake-related natural hazards, paleoclimate signals in East African rift lakes.

Honors

1991 – Albert Maucher Preis of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (young scientist award)
1992 – Heisenberg Stipendium of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2004 – Leibniz-Preis of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publikationen

Selected Publications (ISI) (since 2004)

2004    Hilley, G. and Strecker, M.R. Steady-state erosion of critical Coulomb wedges. J. Geophysical Research, 109, B1, B01411 10.1029/2002 JB002284.

2004    Hilley, G., Strecker, and Ramos, V. Erosional growth of critical Coulomb wedges applied to the Aconcagua Fold and Thrust Belt, Argentina. J. Geophysical Research, 109, B1, B01410 10.1029/2002 JB002282.

2004    Thiede, R., Bookhagen, B., Arrowsmith, R., Sobel, E., and Strecker, M.R., Climatic control on areas of rapid exhumation along the Southern Himalayan Front, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 222, 791-806.

2004    Hetzel, R., Tao, M., Stokes, S., Niedermann, S., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kubik, P.W. & Gao, B. Implications of the fault scaling law for the growth of topography: mountain ranges in the broken foreland of north-east Tibet. Terra Nova , 16, 157-162.

2004    Hetzel, R., Tan, M., Niedermann, S., Strecker, M.R., Ivy-Ochs, S., Gao, B., Strecker, M.R., Kubik, P.W. Late Pleistocene/Holocene slip rate of the Zhangye Thrust (Qilian Shan, china) and implications for the active growth of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics, 23, TC6006, doi:1029/2004 TC001653.

2005    Hilley, G. and Strecker, M.R., Processes of oscillatory basin filling and excavation in a tectonically active orogen: Quebrada del Toro Basin, NW Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117, 887-901.

2005    Bookhagen, B., Thiede, R., and Strecker, M.R., Late Quaternary intensified monsoon phases control landscape evolution in the NW Himalaya. Geology, 33, 149-152.

2005    Bookhagen B., Thiede, R. and Strecker, M.R. Monsoonal forcing and catastrophic landslides in the NW Indian Himalaya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 231, 131-146.

2005    Hilley, G., Blisniuk, P.M. and Strecker, M.R., Mechanics and erosion of thick-skinned and basement-cored uplift provinces. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, doi:10.1029/2005 JB003704.

2005    Thiede, R., Arrowsmith, R., Bookhagen, B., and Strecker, M.R., From tectonically to erosionally controlled development of the Himalayan orogen. Geology, 33, 689-692.

2005    Carrapa, B., Adelmann, D., Hilley, G.E., Mortimer, E., Sobel, E., and Strecker, M.R. Oligocene uplift and development of plateau morphology in the southern Central Andes. Oligocene uplift and development of plateau morphology in the southern Central Andes. Tectonics, 24, doi:10.1029/2004TC001762.

2005    Trauth, M.H., Maslin, M., Deino, A. and Strecker, M.R., Moisture history of East Africa. Science, 309, 2051-2053.

2006    Coutand, I., Carrapa, B., Deeken, A., Schmitt, A.K., Sobel. E.R., Strecker, M.R. Orogenic plateau formation and lateral growth of compressional basins and ranges: insights from sandstone petrography and detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology in the Angastaco Basin, NW-Argentina. Basin Research, 18, 1-26, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00283.x

2006    Thiede, R., Arrowsmith, R., Bookhagen, B., McWilliams, M.O., Sobel, E., and Strecker, M.R., E-W extension in the Tethyan Himalaya, Leo-Pargil Dome, NW India. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 118, 635-650.

2006    Mora, A., Parra, M., Strecker, M.R., Kammer, A., Dimate, C. and Rodriguez, F. Cenozoic contractional reactivation of Mesozoic extensional structures in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Tectonics, 25, TC2010, doi: 10.1029/2005TC001854.

2006    Carrapa, B., Strecker, M.R., and Sobel, E. Cenozoic orogenic growth in the Central Andes: Evidence from sedimentary rock provenance and apatite fission track thermochronology in the Fiambala Basin, southernmost Puna Plateau margin (NW Argentina). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 247, 82-100

2006    Bookhagen, B., H.P. Echtler, D. Melnick, M.R. Strecker, and Spencer, J. Holocene coastal landform evolution, strandlines, and earthquake recurrence intervals in south-central Chile. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, OL. 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL026734

2006    Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Echtler, H.P., and Strecker, M.R. Coastal deformation and great subduction earthquakes at Isla Santa Maria, Chile. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 118, 1463-1480

2006    Haschke, M., Sobel, E.R., Blisniuk, P., Strecker, M.R., and Warkus, F. Continental response to active ridge subduction. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, OL33, doi:10.1029/2006GL025972

2006    Deeken, A., Sobel, E.R., Haschke, M.R., Strecker, M.R., and Riller, U. Age of Initiation and Growth Pattern of the Puna Plateau, NW-Argentina, Constrained by AFT thermochronology. Tectonics, 25:TC6003, doi:10.1029/2005TC001894

2007    Mortimer, E., Schoenbohm, L., Carrapa, B., Sobel, E.R. Sosa Gomez, J., and Strecker, M. R. Compartmentalization of a foreland basin in response to plateau growth and diachronous thrusting: El Cajón – Campo Arenal basin, NW Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119, 637-665.

2007    Strecker, M.R. , Alonso, R., Bookhagen, B., Carrapa. B., Hilley, G.E., Sobel, E.R., Trauth, M.H., Tectonics and climate of the southern central Andes. Annual Reviews in Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35, 747-787.

2007    Mortimer, E. Paton, D.A., Scholz, C., Blisniuk, P.M., and Strecker, M.R., Growth of normal faults through enhanced segment linkage in a region with a strong structural inheritance: Karonga Basin, northern Malawi Rift, Africa. Basin Research, 19, 393-407.

2007    Trauth, H.H., Maslin, M., Deino, A., Strecker, M.R., Bergner, A.G., Dühnforth, M., Three million years history of the East African lakes. J. Human Evolution, 53(5), 475-486.

2007    Rehak, K., Strecker, M.R., Echtler, H.P. Segmentation of an active forearc setting – Chile (37 – 41°S). Geomorphology, 94, 98-116.

2007    Uba, C.E., Strecker, M.R., Schmitt, A.K. Increased sediment accumulation rates in the Central Andes during the late Miocene due to climate forcing. Geology, 35, 979 - 982.

2008    Bookhagen, B. and Strecker, M.R. High-resolution TRMM rainfall, hillslope angles, and relief along the eastern Andes, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L06403.

2008    Mora, A., Parra, M., Strecker, M.R., Sobel, E.R. Climatic forcing of asymmetric orogenic evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Geological Society of America Bulletin , 120, 930-949.

2008    Scherler, D., Leprince, S. and Strecker, M.R. Glacier-surface velocities in alpine terrain from optical satellite imagery - accuracy improvement and quality assessment. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3806-3819

2008    Carrapa, B. Hauer, J., Schoenbohm, L., Strecker, M.R., Schmitt, A., Villanueva, A., and Sosa Gomez, J. Dynamics of deformation and sedimentation in the northern Sierras Pampeanas: an integrated study of the Neogene Fiambalá basin, NW Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120, 1518-1543.

2008    Mora, A., Gaona, T., Kley, J., Montoya, D., Parra, M., Quiroz, L.I., Reyes, G., Strecker, M.R. Inherited extensional fault segmentation and linkage in contractional orogenesis: a reconstruction of Lower Cretaceous inverted rift basins in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Basin Research (in press)

2008    Ballato, P. Nowaczyk, N., Landgraf, A., Strecker, M.R., Friedrich, A. and Tabatabaei, S. Tectonic control on sedimentary facies pattern and sediment accumulation rates in the Miocene foreland basin of the southern Alborz mountains, N Iran, Tectonics, 27, TC6001, doi:10.1029/2008TC002278

2009    Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M.R., and Echtler, H. Segmentation of megathrust rupture zones from forearc deformation patterns over hundreds to millions of years, Arauco peninsula, Chile. J. Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, 114, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005788.

2009    Thiede, R., Ehlers, T., B. Bookhagen, and Strecker, M.R. Erosional variability along the NW Himalayan margin. J. Geophysical Research – Surface Processes, 114, F01015, doi:1029/2008JF001010.

2009    Zielke, O. and Strecker, M.R. Recurrence of large earthquakes in magmatic continental rifts: Insights from a paleoseismic study along the Marmanet-Laiipia fault, Subukia Valley, Kenya Rift. Bull. Seismological Soc. America, 99, 61-70, doi:10.1785/0120080015

2009    Parra, M., Mora, A., Jaramillo, C., Strecker, M.R., Sobel, E., Quiroz, L., Rueda, M., and Torres, V. Orogenic advance in the northern Andes: evidence from the oligo-miocene sedimentary record of the Medina Basin, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Geological Society of America Bulletin , v. 121, 780-800

2009    Landgraf, A., Ballato, P., Strecker, M.R., Friedrich, A.M., Tabatabaei, S., and Shapahsandzadeh, M. Fault-kinematic and geomorphic observations along the North Tehran Thrust and Mosha Fasham Fault, Alborz mountains, Iran: implications for fault-system evolution and interaction in a changing tectonic regime. Geophysical Journal International, 177, 676-690

2009    Garcin, Y., Junginger, A., Melnick, D., Olago, D., Strecker, M.R., and Trauth, M. Late Pleistocene-Holocene rise and collapse of Lake Suguta, northern Kenya Rift. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 911-925

2009    Parra, M.. Mora, A., Sobel., E., Strecker, M.R., and Gonzáles, R. Episodic orogenic-front migration in the northern Andes: constraints from low-temperature thermochronology in the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Tectonics, 28, TC4004, doi:10.1029/2009TC002423

2009    Strecker, M.R., Alonso, R. Bookhagen, B., Carrapa, B. Coutand, I., Hain, M.P., Hilley, G.E., Mortimer, E., Schoenbohm, L., and Sobel. E.R. Does the topographhic distribution of the central Andean Puna Plateau result from climatic or geodynamic processes? Geology, 37, 643-646.

2009    Uba, C., Kley, J., Strecker, M.R., and Schmitt, A. Unsteady evolution of the Bolivian Subandean thrust belt: the role of enhanced erosion and clastic wedge propagation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 281, 134-146.

2009    Bergner, A.G.N., Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M. Deino, A., Gasse, F., Blisniuk, P.M. and Dühnforth, M. Tectonic and climatic control on evolution of rift lakes in the Central Kenya Rift, East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews (in press)

2009    Schoenbohm, L. and Strecker, M.R., Late Pliocene reactivation of thrust and reverse faults as normal faults along the southern margin of the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina. Tectonics, 28, TC5008, doi:10.1029/2008TC002341.

2009    Hintersberger, E. Hacker, B., Strecker, M.R. and Thiede, R. Ongoing extension in the High Himalaya of NW India. Geological Society of America Bulletin (in press).

2009    Mora, A., Parra, M., Strecker, M.R., Sobel, E.R. Climatic forcing of asymmetric orogenic evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Geological Society of America Bulletin (in press