Biografie

4/2011-present

Post-doctoral researcher and lecturer, University of Potsdam, Germany

4/2009-3/2011

Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellow

3/2008-3/2009

Post-doctoral researcher, DFG-Leibniz Center for Earth Surface and Climate Studies, University of Potsdam

9/2002-2/2008

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

10/2001-8/2002

Laboratory research technician, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center, Scotland

10/2000-9/2001

MSc., University of Edinburgh, Scotland

9/1996-6/2000

BA, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA

Forschung

I am interested in the topographic evolution of orogens, rates and processes of fluvial erosion, and understanding how landforms and landscapes evolve in diverse tectonic and climatic settings. In my research I typically apply GIS and remote sensing, low-temperature thermochronology, numerical modeling, and cosmogenic nuclides. My recent research has focused on understanding the Late Cenozoic uplift history of the Anatolian Plateau, using river incision history, 87Sr/86Sr stratigraphy, and structural mapping of the plateau margins. Future directions include investigations into how diverse landscapes have been impacted by climate change in the Central Andes in terms of changing erosion rates, vegetation, and stable isotope signatures.

Lehre

Courses In fall/winter semester 2011-2012:

• A Systems Approach to Earth Science (responsible for course design and teaching)
• Geology of Turkey (co-lecturer and co-leader of spring field excursion)

Conference workshop: “Neotectonics, Tectonic Geomorphology and Paleoseismology of Tectonically Active Regions” at Fragile Earth GSA-GV meeting in Munich, Germany; designed and led two lectures and one laboratory exercise

6-day field excursion co-leader, “Continental plateaus, at the interface between deep-seated and surficial processes: Surface uplift and volcanic evolution of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey” for TopoEurope participants to central and southern Turkey

Guest Lecturer, Neotectonics short-courses, Potsdam University, 4/2008, 4/2009, 12/2011

Guest Lecturer, Earth Surface-forming Processes short-course, University of Potsdam, 11/2008

Undergraduate feld mapping course, University of Potsdam, Co-taught (2x) 2-week field mapping course in the Pic Saint Loup region of southern France

Publikationen

Yıldırım, C, Schildgen, TF, Echtler, H, Melnick, D, Bookhagen, B, Çiner, A, Niederman, S, Merchel, S, Martschini, M, Steier, P, Strecker, MR (in review), Tectonic and climatic implications of fluvial incision at the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau based on multiple cosmogenic nuclides, submitted to GSA Bulletin.

Cipollari, P, Cosentino, D, Radeff, G, Schildgen, TF, Faranda, C,  Grossi, F, Gliozzi, E,  Smedile, A, Gennari, R, Darbaş, G Dudas, FO, Gürbüz, K, Nazik, A, Echtler, H (in press), Easternmost Mediterranean evidence of the Zanclean flooding event and subsequent surface uplift: Adana Basin, southern Turkey, Geological Society of London Special Publications.

Schildgen, TF, Cosentino, D, Caruso, A, Buchwaldt, R, Yildirim, C, Rojay, B, Bowring, SA, Echtler, H, Strecker, MR (2012), Surface expression of Eastern Mediterranean slab dynamics: Neogene topographic and structural evolution of the SW margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey, Tectonics, 31, TC2005, doi:10.1029/2011TC003021.

Schildgen, TF, Cosentino, D, Bookhagen, B, Niedermann, S, Yildirim, C, Echtler, HA, Wittmann, H., Strecker, MR (2012), Multi-phase uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317-318, 85-95, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.003.

Cosentino, D, Schildgen, TF, Cipollari, P, Faranda, C, Gliozzi, E, Hudáčková, N, Lucifora, S, Strecker, MR (2012), Late Miocene surface uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Central Taurides, Turkey. GSA Bulletin, 124, 133-145, doi:10.1130/B30466.1. Toll-free link: http://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/124/1-2/133?ijkey=nOcCZzGpAY67k&keytype=ref&siteid=gsabull

Yildirim, C, Schildgen, TF, Echtler, H, Melnick, D, and Strecker, MR (2011), Late Neogene orogenic uplift in the Central Pontides associated with the North Anatolian Fault - implications for the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey, Tectonics, 30, TC5005, doi: 10.1029/2010TC002756.

Schildgen, TF, Balco, G, and Shuster, DA (2010), Canyon incision and knickpoint propagation recorded by apatite 4He/3He thermochronometry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 293, 377-387.

Schildgen, TF, Ehlers, TA, Whipp Jr., D, van Soest, M, Whipple, KX, and Hodges, KV (2009), Quantifying the timing and magnitude of canyon incision and Andean Plateau surface uplift, southwest Peru: A thermochronometer and numerical modeling approach, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 114, F04014, doi:10.1029/2009JF001305.

Schildgen, TF, Hodges, KV, Whipple, KX, Pringle, MS, van Soest, MC, and Cornell, K, (2009), Late Cenozoic structural and tectonic development of the western margin of the central Andean Plateau in southwest Peru, Tectonics, 28, TC4007, doi:10.1029/2008TC002403.

Ouimet, WB, Whipple, KX, Crosby, B, Johnson, J, and Schildgen, T, (2008), Epigenetic gorges in actively incising landscapes, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 33, 1993-2009, doi: 10.1002/ESP1650.

Schildgen, TF, Hodges, KV, Whipple, KX, Reiners, PW, and Pringle, MS (2007), Uplift of the western margin of the Andean plateau revealed from canyon incision history, southern Peru, Geology, 35(6), 523-526, doi: 10.1130/G23532A.1.

Schildgen, TF, Purves, RS, and Phillips, WM (2005), Simulation of snow shielding corrections for cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure studies, Geomorphology, 64, 67-85.

Hodges, KV, Wobus C, Ruhl K, Schildgen, T, Whipple K (2004), Quaternary deformation, river steepening, and heavy precipitation at the front of the Higher Himalayan ranges, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 220, 3-4, p. 379-389.

Dethier, DP, Benedict, JB, Birkeland, PW, Caine, N, Davis, PT, Madole, RF, Patterson, PE, Price, AB, Schildgen, TF, Shroba, RR (2003), Quaternary stratigraphy, geomorphology, soils, and alpine archaeology in an alpine-to-plains transect, Colorado Front Range, in Easterbrook, DJ, Quaternary geology of the United States; INQUA 2003 field guide volume, Desert Research Institute, Reno, 81-104.

Schildgen, TF, Dethier, DP, Bierman, P, and Caffee, M (2002), 26Al and 10Be dating of late Pleistocene and Holocene fill terraces: a record of glacial and non-glacial fluvial deposition and incision, Colorado Front Range, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 27, 773-787.

Cox, R, Atkinson, RK, Bear, BR, Chokel, CB, Comstock, JC, Gutmann, ED, Interess, LB, Schildgen, TF, Teplitzky, SJ, and Willis, MP (2000), Changes in a fringing reef complex over a thirty-year period: coral loss and lagoon infilling at Mary Creek, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, Bulletin of Marine Science, 66(1), 269-277.