Prof. Dr. Christian Hübscher

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• Professor:                                                                                                                   since 2011
• Habilitation:                                                                                                              2007
• Senior Scientists at University of Hamburg (permanent):                        since 1998
• Assistant professor (C1) University of Bremen:                                             1995 - 1998
• Research associate University of Bremen:                                                      1994 - 1995
• PhD (Dr. rer. nat.)                                                                                                      1994               
• Doctorate Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research:    1991 - 1994
• Diploma in Geophysics                                                                                          1990
• Studies (Geophysics) Westfälische Wilhelms University of Münster:   1984 - 1990

 Community Service

• Earth System Science Doctoral Committee                                                    2021 - 2023
• Advisory board H2020 RAMONES                                                                      since 2021
• Expert for “WISSENSCHAFTSRAT”                                                                      2021
• Member Editorial Board of Marine Geology                                                  since 2019
•  “Science Evaluation Panel - SEP”  (IODP)                                                        since 2019
• Scientific Advisory Council of Leibniz Institute for
• Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde (IOW)                                                        since 2018
• Co-Chair review panel German research vessels (GPF) “Polar Panel”    since 2018
• Speaker  "Commission for the preparation of a voluntary commitment
• for marine seismic measurements"                                                                   2016 - 2019
• Working group co-coordinator of COST Action “MEDSALT”                       2016 - 2020
• DFG Review panel “SPP- IODP”                                                                            2012 - 2020
• Review panel member “Meeresforschung mit FS SONNE”                        2011 - 2017
• Speaker FKPE-working group “Marine Geophysics”                                     2010 - 2020
• Editor for “International Journal of Earth Sciences” (geophysics)           2011 - 2022

Jüngste Publikationen seit 2020

[153] Preine, J., Karstens, J., Hübscher, C., et al., 2024. Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01392-7

[152] Ponikowska, M., Stovba, S.M., Mazur, S., Malinowski,M., Krzywiec, P., Nguyen, Q., Hübscher, C., 2024. Crustal‐Scale Pop‐Up Structure at the Junction of Two Continental‐Scale Deformation Zones in the Southern Baltic Sea. Tectonics 43, e 2023TC008066, doi.org/10.1029/2023TC008066

[151] Betzler, C., Hübscher, C., Lindhorst, S., Lüdmann, T., Hincke, C., Beaman, R.J., Webster, J.M., 2024. Seismic stratigraphic and sedimentary record of a partial carbonate platform drowning, Queensland Plateau, north-east Australia. Marine Geology 470 107255, doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107255.

[150] Druitt, T., Kutterolf, S., Ronge, T.A., and the Expedition 398 Scientists, 2024. Expedition 398 Preliminary Report: Hellenic Arc Volcanic Field. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.398.2024.

[149] Druitt, T., Kutterolf, S., Ronge, T., Hübscher, C., Nomikou, P., Preine, J., et al., 2024. Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow submarine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 5:24, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01171-z

[148] Crutchley, G.J., Karstens, J., Preine, J., Hübscher, C., Fossen, H., Kühn, M., Extensional faulting around Kolumbo Volcano, Aegean Sea – relationships between local stress fields, fault relay ramps and volcanism. Tectonics 42, e2023TC007951. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007951

[147] van der Zwan, F., Augustin, N., Le Saout, M., Seidel, E., Wölfl, A.-C., Schade, M., Lampridou, D., Long, X., Follmann, J., Miluch, J., Schönberg, J., Antonio, R.J., Heinath, V., Köse, Louisa M.C., Krach, L., Garbe-Schönberg, C.D., Hübscher, C., 2023. Tectonically assisted emplacement of oceanic intraplate volcanoes: The Bathymetrists Seamounts, central Atlantic. Geomorphology 441 108891, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108891

[146] Nguyen, Q., Malinowski, M., Kramarska, R., Kaulbarsz, D., Mil, L., Hübscher, C., 2023. Gas escape features along the Trzebiatow Fault offshore Poland: evidence for a leaking petroleum system. Marine and Petroleum Geology 156 (2023) 106431, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106431

[145] Al Hseinat, M., AlZidaneen, M., Jaradat, R., Al-Rawabdeh, A., Hübscher, C., 2023. Tectono-stratigraphic framework and evolution of the northwestern Arabian plate, Central Jordan. Tectonophysics 863 229993, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229993

[144] Warwel, A., Hübscher, C., Hartge, M., Artschwager, M., Schäfer, W., Preine, J., Häcker, T., Strehse, V., Karušs, J., Lüdmann, T., 2023. The Paleozoic Hydrocarbon System in the Gotland Basin (central Baltic Sea) leaks. Earth and Space Science, 10.1029/2023EA002883

[143] Karstens, J., Preine, J., Carey, S., Bell, K.C., Nomikou, P., Hübscher, C., Lampridou, D., Urlaub, M., 2023. Formation of undulating seafloor bedforms during the Minoan eruption and their implications for eruption dynamics and slope stability at Santorini. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 616, 118215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118215.

[142] Hübscher, C., Häcker, T., Betzler, C., Kalvelage, C., Weiß, B., 2023. Reading the sediment archive of the Eastern Campeche Bank (southern Gulf of Mexico): From the aftermath of the Chicxulub impact to Loop Current variability. Marine Geophysical Research 44(6), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11001-023-09514-3.

[141] Karstens, J., Preine, J., Crutchley, et al., S., van der Bilt, W. G. M., Hooft, E. E. E., Druitt, T. H., Schmid, F., Cederstrøm, J. M., Hübscher, C., Nomikou, P., Carey, S., Kühn, M., Elger, J., Berndt, C., 2023. Revised Minoan eruption volume as benchmark for large volcanic eruptions. Accepted for publication in Nature Communications.

[140] Ahlrichs, N., Hübscher, C., Andersen, T.R., Preine, J., Bogner, L., Schäfer, W., 2023. The Langeland Fault System unraveled: Quaternary fault reactivation along an elevated basement block between the North German and Norwegian–Danish basins. Boreas, https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12614

[139] Ahlrichs, N., Noack, V., Seidel, E., Hübscher, C., 2023. Salt tectonics in intracontinental sedimentary basins: Triassic–Jurassic salt movement in the Baltic sector of the North German Basin and its relation to post-Permian regional tectonics.  Basin Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12760

[138] Chang, Y.-C., Mitchell, N.C., Schindlbeck-Belo, J.C., Hansteen, T.H., Freundt, A., Hübscher, C., Quartau, R., 2023. Emplacement history of volcaniclastic turbidites around the central Azores volcanic islands: frequencies of slope landslides and eruptions. Geosphere, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02570.1

[137] Hübscher, C., Nürnberg, D., 2023. Loop Current attenuation after the Mid-Pleistocene Transition contributes to Northern hemisphere cooling. Marine Geology 456 106976, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106976

[136] Preine, J., Hübscher, C., Karstens, J., Nomikou, P., 2022. Volcano-Tectonic Evolution of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo Rift Zone. Tectonics 41(11), e2022TC007524, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007524

[135] Batista, L., Hübscher, C., Terrinha, P., Matias, L., Afilhdao, A., Loureiro, A., Weiß, B., 2022. Crustal structure across the São Miguel Island (Azores, North Atlantic) and tectonic implications. Marine Geophysical Research 43(41), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11001-022-09503-y

[134] Warwel, A., Hübscher, C., Ahlrichs, N., Schnabel, M., 2022. New insights into tunnel valley locations and Cenozoic exhumation in the southwestern Baltic Sea based on Machine Learning aided seismic refraction tomography. Marine Geophysical Research 43(35), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11001-022-09492-y

[133] Beier, C., Genske, F., Hübscher, C., Haase, K.M., Bach, W., Nomikou, P., and Shipboard Scientific Party R/V Meteor M128, 2022. The submarine Azores Plateau: evidence for a waning mantle plume? Marine Geology 451, 106858, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106858

[132] Pan, Y., Seidel, E., Juhlin, C., Hübscher, C., Sopher, D., 2022. Inversion tectonics in the Sorgenfrei–Tornquist Zone: insight from new marine seismic images at the Bornholm Gat, SW Baltic Sea. GFF, https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2022.2071335

[131] Chang, Y-C-. Mitchell, N.C., Quartau, R., Hübscher, C., Rusu, L., Tempera, F., 2022. Asymmetric abundances of submarine sediment waves around the Azores volcanic islands. Marine Geology 449, 106837, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106837

[130] Mitchell, N.C., Hernandez, K., Preine, J., Ligi, J., Augustin, N., Izzeldin, A., Hübscher, C., 2022. Early stage diapirism in the Red Sea deep-water evaporites: Origins and length-scales. Tectonophysics, 831, 229331

[129] Preine, J., Karstens, J., Hübscher, C., Crutchley, G.J., Druitt, T., Schmid, F, Nomikou, P., 2022. The Hidden Giant: How a rift pulse triggered a cascade of sector collapses and voluminous secondary mass-transport events in the early evolution of Santorini. Basin Research, DOI: 10.1111/bre.12667

[128] Janik, T., Wójcik, D., Ponikowska, M., Mazur, S., Skrzynik, T., Malinowski, M., Hübscher, C., 2022. Crustal structure across the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone offshore Poland based on a new refraction/wide-angle reflection profile and potential field modelling. Tectonophysics 828, 229271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229271

[127] Preine, J., Karstens, J., Hübscher, C., Nomikou, P., Schmid, F., Crutchley, G.J., Druitt, T.H., Papanikolaou, 2022. Spatio-temporal evolution of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field, Aegean Sea. Geology 50(1), 96-100. https://doi.org/10.1130/G49167.1

[126] Lüdmann, T., Betzler, C., Lindhorst, S., Lahajnar, N., Hübscher, C., 2022. Submarine landsliding in carbonate ooze along low-angle slopes (Inner Sea, Maldives). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 136, 105403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105403

[125] El-Sharkawy, A., Meier, T., Hübscher, C., Lebedev, S., Dannowski, A., Kopp, H., Behrmann, J.H., McGrandle, A., Hamada, M., 2021. Lithospheric structure of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: Inferences from surface wave tomography and stochastic inversions constrained by wide-angle refraction measurements. Tectonophysics 821, 229159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229159

[124] Ahlrichs, N., Noack, V., Hübscher, C., Seidel, E., Warwel, A., Kley, J., 2021. Impact of Late Cretaceous inversion and Cenozoic extension on salt structure growth in the Baltic sector of the North German Basin. Basin Research DOI: 10.1111/bre.12617

[123] Nomikou, P., Papanikolaou, D., Lampridou, D., Blum, M., Hübscher, C., 2021. The active tectonic structures along the southern margin of Lesvos Island, related to the seismic activity of July 2017, Aegean Sea, Greece. Geo-Marine Letters (2021) 41(4), 1-11 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-021-00723-6

[122] Follman, J., van der Zwan, F.M., Preine, J., Hübscher, C., Bousquet, R., Augustin, N., 2021. Gabbro discovery in Discovery Deep: First plutonic rock samples from the Red Sea Rift axis. Front. Earth Sci. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.742815

[121] Romer, R.H.W., Beier, C., Haase, K.M., Eberts, A., Hübscher, C., 2021. The Evolution of Central Volcanoes in Ultraslow Rift Systems: Constraints from D. João de Castro Seamount, Azores. Tectonics, 40, e2020TC006663. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006663

[120] Schäfer, W., Hübscher, C., Sopher, D., 2021. Seismic stratigraphy of the Klints Bank east of Gotland (Baltic Sea): A giant drumlin sealing thermogenic hydrocarbons. Geo-Marine Letters 41:9, doi.org/10.1007/s00367-020-00683-3.

[119] Schnabel, M., Noack, V., Ahlrichs, N., Hübscher, C., 2021. A comprehensive model of seismic velocities for the Bay of Mecklenburg (Baltic Sea) at the North German Basin margin: implications for basin development. Geo-Marine Letters 41 (2), 1-12 doi.org/10.1007/s00367-021-00692-w

[118] Dunlap, S.B., Krzywiec, P., Hübscher, C., Tagliao, G., Molina, F.J.H., 2021. Introduction to special section: Seismic interpretation of contourites and deep-water sediment waves. Interpretation 9(2), 1-3.

[117] Marques, F.O., Catalão, J., Hübscher, C., Costa A.C.G., Hildenbrand, A., Zeyen, H., Nomikou, P., Lebas, E., Zanon, V., 2021. The shaping of a volcanic ridge in a tectonically active setting: The Pico-Faial Ridge in the Azores Triple Junction. Geomophology 378, 107612, doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107612.

[116] Preine, J., Schwarz, B., Bauer, A., Hübscher, C., 2020. When there is no offset – a demonstration of seismic diffraction imaging and depth-velocity model building in the southern Aegean Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 125(9), e2020JB019961, doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019961

[115] Frahm, L., Hübscher, C., Warwel, A., Preine, J., Huster, H., 2020. Misinterpretation of velocity pull-ups caused by high-velocity infill of tunnel valleys in the southern Baltic Sea. Near Surface Geophysics 18(6), 643-657, doi.org/10.1002/nsg.12122

[114] Grob, H., Seidel, E., Hübscher, C., 2020. Seismic amplitude and attribute data from Mesozoic strata in the Skagerrak (Danish-Norwegian North Sea): Indicators for fluid migration and seal bypass systems. Marine and Petroleum Geology 121, 104596, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104596.

[113] Schmidt, C., Hensen, C., Hübscher, C., Wallmann, K., Liebetrau, V., Schmidt, M., Kutterolf, S., Hansteen, T.H., 2020. Geochemical characterization of deep-sea sediments on the Azores Plateau – From diagenesis to hydrothermal activity. Marine Geology 429, 106291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106291

[112] Ahlrichs, N., Hübscher, C., Noack, V., Schnabel, M., Damm, V., Krawczyk, C.M., 2020. Structural evolution at the northeast North German Basin margin: From initial Triassic salt movement to Late Cretaceous‐Cenozoic remobilization. Tectonics 39, e2019TC005927, DOI: 10.1029/2019TC005927

[111] Huster, H., Hübscher, C., Seidel, W., 2020. Impact of Late Cretaceous to Neogene plate tectonics and Quaternary ice loads on supra‑salt deposits at Eastern Glückstadt Graben, North German Basin. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 109, 1029-1050, doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01850-8

[110] Camerlenghi, A., Del Ben, A., Hübscher, C., Forlin, E., Geletti, R., Brancatelli, G., Micallef, A., Saule, M., Facchin, L., 2020. Seismic markers of the Messinian salinity crisis in the deep Ionian Basin. Basin Research 32(4), 716-738. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12392

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2007 Habilitation / Facultas Docendi / Venia Legendi

Seit 1998 an der Universität Hamburg (Akademischer Rat)

1995 – 1998 wissenschaftlicher Assistent an der Universität Bremen

1994-1995 PostDoc an der Universität Bremen

1991-1994 Doktorand am Alfred-Wegener-Institut in Bremerhaven

1991 Geophysik-Diplom an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Forschungsinteressen

Im Rahmen meiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit studiere ich aktive Erdprozesse mit seismischen und hydroakustischen Methoden. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf solchen Prozessen und Strukturen, die das Relief des Meeresbodens prägen. Dies sind z.B. Sedimentablagerungen unter dem Einfluss von Meeresspiegelschwankungen oder Meeresströmungen (Sequenzstratigraphie und Konturitbildung), Platten- und Salztektonik, Hangrutschungen, submariner Vulkanismus oder Fluid- und Gasaustritte.

Regionale Schwerpunkte gruppieren sich entlang der Afro-Eurasischen Kollisionszone zwischen den Azoren im Atlantik und dem Levantebecken im östlichen Mittelmeer. Weiterhin arbeite ich im Golf von Mexiko, bei den Malediven und in der Ostsee.

Lehre

BSc.-Studiengang:

• Geologische Interpretation geophysikalischer Daten
• Berufs- und Seepraktikum
• Angewandte Geophysik 1
• Geophysikalische Messübung

MSc.-Studiengang

• Seismische Datenbearbeitung
• Beckenanalyse

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