Sascha Brune

@sasbrune.bsky.social

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Earth Sciences · Geodynamics · Modelling GFZ Potsdam (@gfz.bsky.social) Uni Potsdam (@geowpotsdam.bsky.social) https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/staff/sascha.brune

July 6th: “Earthquake Hazards of Rifted Margins” 16:00 Hamza Skikra (University of Science and Technology of China, China) “Ocean-continent tectonic stresses and earthquake hazards of the Central African rifted margin” 16:20 Baoning Wu (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US) “Radiation pattern and rupture directivity effects of the 2024 Mw4.8 Tewksbury, New Jersey, earthquake” 16:40 Hardy Nkodia M.D-V. (Marien Ngouabi University, D.R. Congo) “Ocean-continent tectonic stresses and earthquake hazards of the Central African rifted margin”
June 1st: “Earthquake Cycle in Rifts” 16:00 Luc Lavier (UT Austin, US) “Spectrum of slip events on normal faults” 16:20 Zoe Mildon (University of Plymouth, UK) “Spatiotemporal variations in slip rate over millions of years on an extensional fault system” 16:40 Vasiliki Mouslopoulou (Institute of Geodynamics, Greece) “Paleo-earthquake elapsed‐times and mean inter-event‐times for a global data set of rift and non-rift settings”
May 11th: “Earthquake swarms in continental rifts” 16:00 Pınar Büyükakpınar (GFZ, Potsdam, Germany) “The Anatomy of Seismic Swarms in the Eger Rift” 16:20 Meritxell Colet (Columbia University, New York, US) "Space-time Clustering of Seismicity in the Tanganyika-Rukwa Rift Zone, East Africa” 16:40 Martina Raggiunti (INGV, Rome, Italy) “Spatio-temporal Evolution of Seismic Clusters in the Main Ethiopian Rift: Fluid-induced Swarms vs. Tectonic Earthquakes”
April 13th 16:00 CEST “Lithium resources in rift basins” 16:00 Francesco Putzolu (Napoli Univ., Italy): Lithium clay mineralization in continental basins 16:20 Assnake Bekele (Addis Ababa Science & Technology Univ., Ethiopia): Lithium occurrence and resource potential in the Main Ethiopian Rift and the Danakil depression 16:40 Hermann Lebit (Alma Energy, Texas, US):The Rio Grande Rift – Emerging Basin for Geothermal Energy, Lithium and other Critical Minerals
16:00 Ran Issachar (Geological Survey of Israel) “Plume-induced plate rotation in the Afro-Arabian rift” 16:20 Hany Khalil (Alexandria University, Egypt) “Impact of rotation pole proximity on rift evolution: analog and numerical modelling insights from the Red Sea” 16:40 Asfaw Erbello (Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia) “Temporal variation in counterclockwise vertical-axis block rotations across a rift overlap zone, southwestern Ethiopia, East Africa”
16:00 Daniel Sauter (University of Strasbourg, France) “Was the mantle warmer when Pangea broke up? Insights from initial oceanic crustal thickness alongside the rifted margins of the Atlantic and Indian oceans” 16:20 Éva Oravecz (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary and ETH, Switzerland) “The effects of oblique rifting on the syn-rift magmatism and spreading initiation” 16:40 Leila Mezri (University of Bremen – MARUM, Germany) “Tectonic controls on melt production and crustal architecture during magma-poor seafloor spreading”
January 5th: “Sources of rift inheritance” 16:00 CET: Mélanie Ballay (University of Strasbourg, France) “Mantle inheritance and mantle-melt interaction, two key factors in the lithospheric break-up: insights from the Australia-Antarctica magma-poor rifted margins" 16:20 CET: Jeffrey Pollock (Mount Royal University, Canada) “The influence of orogenic collapse and tectonic inheritance on continental break-up: insights from seismic anisotropy in the lithospheric mantle" 16:40 CET: Zoltán Erdős (University of Potsdam, Germany) “The influence of orogenic inheritance on rift dynamics - a numerical modeling perspective”
16:00 Sarah Stamps (Virginia Polytechnic, U.S.A.) “Open Access GNSS datasets for investigations of extensional settings” 16:20 Carolina Pagli (University of Pisa, Italy) “InSAR insights into earthquakes and volcanoes of the East African Rift” 16:40 James Wood (Imperial College London, U.K.) “Resolving coseismic and aseismic normal fault slip behaviours from InSAR time series: examples from Central Greece”
November 3rd: “Topography data and rift processes” 16:00 Reha Chandresh (University of Florence) - Spatio-temporal fault evolution patterns in magma-rich rifts using quantitative geomorphology - insights from Central Afar, Ethiopia 16:20 Ramon Arrowsmith (Arizona State University) - Topography Data and Rift Processes: mapping, landscape reconstruction, tectonic geomorphology, and topographic differencing 16:40 David Fernández-Blanco (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Decoding continental rift mechanics with uplifted relief
October 6th: “Analog modelling of rifting processes” 16:00 Valentina Armeni (University of Potsdam) - Analog and DEM modeling of magma pathways and volcano distribution between adjacent rift segments 16:20 Timothy Schmid (University of Bern) - Rift-axis parallel lower-crustal flow and its implication on rift propagation: A quantitative view of rift dynamics from analogue models 16:40: Daniele Maestrelli (CNR Florence) - Rifting triple junctions: insights from modelling on the Afar RRR junction
September 1st: “Machine learning for understanding rifting” 16:00 Tolulope Olugboji (University of Rochester, U.S.A.) “Africa Reassembled: AI and Seismic Algorithms Map the Hidden Lithosphere” 16:20 Eric Beaucé (LDEO, U.S.A.) “New Insights into Small Magnitude Seismicity in Botswana using Machine-Learning-Enhanced Detection Techniques” 16:40 Gianmaria Tortelli (University of Florence, Italy) “Machine learning based study on geochemical data from Afar”
July 7th: “Subsidence across scales – resource extraction, volcanism and tectonics” 16:00 Kyle Murray (University of Hawaii, USA) “Imaging crustal deformation across the central East African Rift: Insights into volcanic, tectonic & hydrologic processes" 16:20  Birhan Kebede (University of Florence, Italy) “Ground subsidence in the Dallol geothermal area: Insights from InSAR Observations” 16:40 Bodo Bookhagen (Potsdam University, Germany) “GNSS and InSAR observations at the Olkaria geothermal site in the central East African Rift System”
Session: “Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements in Rifts” 16:00 Lukas Klose (Constructor University, Germany)- “The behavior of Rare Earth Elements in alkaline lakes from the East African Rift” 16:20 Anne Glerum (GFZ, Potsdam, Germany) “Sediment-hosted zinc-lead deposit formation in continental rifts” 16:40 Holly Elliott (BGS,UK) “The Goldilocks effect of carbonatites in rift zones”
16:00 Jolante van Wijk (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) “Structure, stratigraphy, and geodynamics of rifts: Implications for subsurface energy” 16:20 Mauro Cacace (GFZ, Potsdam, Germany) “Thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling in rifts with implications on (induced) seismicity: a case study from the Upper Rhine Graben (URG)” 16:40 Kate Waghorn (Memorial University, Canada) “Understanding fluid flow processes where imaging is difficult - examples from mid-ocean ridge flanks through continental margin basins”
16:00 Ameha Muluneh (GFZ, Potsdam, Germany) “Time-space evolution of rift propagation in Afar, East Africa” 16:20 Zhen Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) “The continental breakup and propagation of the South China Sea” 16:40 Brad Lipovsky (University of Washington, U.S.) “Rifts in ice shelves: glaciology with some thoughts about tectonic analogies”
March 3rd: “Rifting in orogenic settings” 16:00 Simone Lenci (University of Florence, Italy) “Interaction between transverse and rift faults during the initiation of orogenic extension: the case of Sant'Anna Pelago, Northern Apennines, Italy” 16:20 William Holt (Stony Brook University, U.S.) “The geodynamic and landscape evolution of the SW Cordillera of North America from Eocene to present” 16:40 Michael Taylor (University of Kansas, U.S.) “Extending the orogenic wedge of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau”
February 3rd: “Geochemical investigation of extensional tectonic settings” @derekkeir.bsky.social 16:00 Tobias Fischer (Univ. of New Mexico, USA) “CO2 and other volatiles in active continental rifts” 16:20 Eliot Atekwana (Univ. of California, Davis, USA) “TBD” 16:40 Amdemichael Tadesse (University of Oxford, UK) “Pre-eruptive magmatic conditions in geothermally active volcanic systems of the Main Ethiopian Rift”
Online Seminar on “Plate tectonic reconstructions of rifts and rifted margins” 16:00 Peter Haas (GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany) “Plate kinematics and reconstructions in the North East Atlantic” 16:20 Gianluca Frasca (Uni Turin, Italy) “Kinematic reconstruction of the Alpine Tethys and surrounding Mesozoic rifted margins” 16:40 Eivind Straume (UT Austin, US & NORCE, Bergen, Norway) “Impact of mantle convection and dynamic topography on the paleogeography of Arabia-Eurasia and closure of the Tethys Seaway”
An animation of a numerical model that links topographic evolution due to deformation in lithospheric mantle and crust with erosional processes as well as orographically controlled precipitation.
16:00 Adina Pusok (Uni Oxford, UK) “Inefficient melt transport across a weakened lithosphere led to reduced magmatism in the Turkana Depression” 16:20 Alessandro La Rosa (Uni Pisa, Italy) “Geodetic imaging of lower-crustal magma migration during rifting” 16:40 Joël Ruch (Uni Geneva, Switzerland) “The 2021 onset of the ongoing rifting episode in Reykjanes, SW Iceland”
A numerical model of how continents break apart.
16:00 Kate Selway (University of Tasmania, Australia) “3-D Magnetotelluric modelling of the East African Rift at the Northern Tanzanian Divergence” 16:20 Luise Dambly (formerly ETH, Switzerland) “Rifting, transcrustal magmatism and formation of geothermal resources in the central segment of the Ethiopian Rift revealed by 3-D MT imaging” 16:40 Romain Corseri (University of Oslo, Norway) “Magnetotelluric image of a hyper-extended and serpentinized rift system"
16:00 Geoffroy Mohn (Cergy-Pontoise, France) “Breakup of marginal seas and differences from Atlantic-type margins” 16:20 Helene-Sophie Hilbert (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre, Kiel, Germany) “From symmetric to asymmetric spreading – a seismic tomography study of the central Mariana Trough” 16:40 Armagan Kaykun (University of Toronto, Canada) “Structural evolution of the Black Sea Basin using sectioned computational models"
16:00 Lisa McNeill (University of Southampton, UK) “High rates of Corinth Rift (Greece) extension and sea level interactions” 16:20 Valentin Rime (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) “Afar rifting and sea incursions” 16:40 Erica Lucas (McGill University, Australia) “Impact of regional-scale mantle structure beneath the West Antarctic Rift System on glacial isostatic adjustment”
16:00 Paul Olsen (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA) “Drilling continental rift basins on the eastern North American margin” 16:20 Joann M. Stock (California Institute of Technology, USA), Sun Zhen (Chinese Academy of Sciences - Department of Marine Geology) “Drilling into the South China Sea” 16:40 Anneleen Foubert (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) and ADD-ON Team “Afar Dallol Drilling: drilling in the Afar as key to unlock the complexity of rifts and rifted margins (ADD-ON)”
16:00 Erin Di Maggio (Penn State University, USA) “High resolution geologic mapping and tephrochronology to constrain rifting at the Ledi-Geraru paleontological site in Ethiopia” 16:20 Céline-Marie Vidal (University of Cambridge, UK) “Volcanic ash in the Rift, origins and applications” 16:40 Lindsay McHenry (UW Milwaukee, USA) “Olduvai basin and its often rift-controlled paleolake"
16:00 Marta Perez-Gussinye (MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany) “Hydrogen fluxes associated to mantle exhumation and serpentinization at North Atlantic magma-poor rifted margins” 16:20 Frank Zwaan (GFZ Potsdam, Germany) “Natural H2 potential in (inverted) rift basins as shown by numerical models” 16:40 Gabriel Pasquet (University of Pau, France) “Basalt alteration and natural hydrogen-geothermal synergies in the Asal-Ghoubbet rift, Republic of Djibouti"
January 8th: “Numerical modeling of extensional settings: latest developments” 16:00 Ritske Huismans (Bergen University, Norway) “Controls of tectonics and surface processes on rift architecture and fault linkage during continental rifting: insights from lithosphere-scale 3D coupled numerical models” 16:20 Tiphaine Larvet (ISTeP, Sorbonne Université, France) “Slab pull and continental breakup: implications for the South China Sea and the Cimmerian blocks” 16:40 Derek Neuharth (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) " Evolution of rift systems and their faults networks in response to surface processes "
Topic: Seaward dipping reflectors Time: 4th December, 16:00 CET 16:00 Laurent Geoffroy (Université de Bretagne Occidentale/IUEM, France) “SDRs and the extent of continents in oceans” 16:20 Sverre Planke (CEED University of Oslo, Norway) “The nature of SDRs constrained by high-resolution 3D seismic and IODP X396 borehole data on the mid-Norwegian volcanic margin” 16:40 John Michael Millett (University of Aberdeen, UK) “Reservoir properties and CO2 storage potential of volcanic margin sequences: insights from IODP drilling of mid-Norway SDRs”