High-resolution Imaging of Swarm Systems through seismological re-processing of earthquakeswarm episodes employing full waveform double-difference methods [HISS]

• Applicants: Catherine Alexandrakis-Zieger, Ph.D.; Dr. Simone Cesca; Dr. Matthias Ohrnberger
• Subject Area: Palaeontology ; Geophysics
• Term: from 2014 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 252864886

HISS is an innovative project to develop and apply new approaches for double difference attenuation tomography to NW Bohemia earthquake swarm regions. It is a multi-group effort from partners at Universities of Potsdam (UPO, Cesca, Ohrnberger), Freiberg (UF, Alexandrowski), Czech Academy of Science Prague (CAS, Fischer, Horalek) and with GFZ Potsdsam (Dahm, Cesca). The PhD candidate, Marius Kriegerowski, is hosted at University Potsdam, but has realized intensive exchange and internships at GFZ, Feiberg and in Prague. HISS is contributing to research questions of the ICDP Eger proposal.The major aims of HISS are to improve the understanding of the processes of development and formation of midcrustal magmatic reservoirs, their dynamics and associated geothermal systems in particular by means of the development of attenuation and velocity double difference methods. The overall aims and the scientific approach have been described in detail in the original proposal for the first 2 years of the PhD project.

• DFG Programme: Infrastructure Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 1006: International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
• International Connection: Czech Republic, Italy
• Cooperation Partners: Professor Dr. Stefan Buske; Professor Dr. Tomas Fischer; Dr. Fracesco Grigoli; Dr. Josef Horálek; Professor Dr. Frank Krüger; Dr. Stephen Monna
• Co-Investigator: Professor Dr. Torsten Dahm