Wiebke Schäfer

Research Focus

• Marine seismic acquisition and processing
• Seismic tomography
• Dynamics and hazard potential of subduction zones
• Fluids in the seafloor

Vita

Since September 2022 

Doctoral researcher at GEOMAR | Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel and Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel

BMBF-Project "Northern Cascadia: Extent of locked zone, prism deformation, slip-to-toe, and the edge of subduction" (CLOCKS)

2019 - 2022

M. Sc. Geophysics at the Universität of Hamburg, Germany

Fokus on marine geophysics, especially marine seismics and hydroacustics

Thesis: "Diffraction energy as an interpretation tool for marine seismic data analysis: A case study from the southern Baltic Sea"

2018 - 2021

Student Assistant at the University of Hamburg, Germany (Institute for Geophysics, working group of Prof. Dr. Christian Hübscher)

2015 - 2018

B. Sc. Geophysics and oceanography at the University of Hamburg, Germany

Focus on marine geophysics

Thesis: "High-resolution seismostratigraphy of a submarine drumlin in the western Gotland Basin"

Expeditions

06/2023 - 07/2023 - CCGS John P. Tully - Pacific, Vancouver Island, Canada: OBS recovery

02/2023 - 04/2023 - RV Sonne - SO297, Chile: Watchkeeper OBS deployments and recovery, seismic data acquisition

11/2021 - RV Meteor - M177, Baltic Sea: Shift leader in seismic acquisitions and processing, gravimetry

05/2021 - 06/2021 - RV Maria S. Merian - MSM100, North Sea: Student research assistant, watchkeeping, hydroacoustics and gravimetry

09/2019 - 10/2019 - RV Sonne - SO270, Indian Ocean, Mascarene Plateau: Student research assistant in seismic acquisition and processing

01/2019 - 02/2019 - RV Meteor - M152/2, Atlantic Ocean, Bathymetrists Seamounts: Student research assistant in seismic acquisition and processing

09/2017 - RV Alkor - AL502, Baltic Sea, Germany/Sweden: Students Training Cruise

Publications - peer reviewed

Warwel, A., Hübscher, C., Hartge, M., Artschwager, M., Schäfer, W., Preine, J., et al. (2023). The Paleozoic hydrocarbon system in the Gotland Basin (central Baltic Sea) leaks. Earth and Space Science, 10, e2023EA002883. doi.org/10.1029/2023EA002883

Ahlrichs, N., Hübscher, C., Andersen, T.R., Preine, J., Bogner, L. and Schäfer, W. (2023), The Langeland Fault System unravelled: Quaternary fault reactivation along an elevated basement block between the North German and Norwegian–Danish basins. Boreas, 52: 381-401. doi.org/10.1111/bor.12614

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(1), 9. doi.org/10.1007/s00367-020-00683-3