Rainer child

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Rainer Kind (born April 6, 1943 in Thuringia ) is a German geophysicist .

Child grew up in Erfurt and fled to the West with his parents after graduating from high school and shortly before the Wall was built . He studied geophysics in Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1969. After some time in California at the United States Geological Survey , at the University of Washington and the University of Karlsruhe , he was employed at the Central Seismological Observatory in Erlangen . Since 1992 he has been researching at the Geo Research Center Potsdam , where he was head of the seismology section from 1992 to 2010 . Since 1994 he has been a professor at the Free University of Berlin .

He also researched the structure of the upper mantle using seismic data (further development of the receiver functions method). This was used, for example, to investigate the deep structure under Tibet , showing signs of subduction of the Eurasian plate . In Central Europe , there were signs of a plume under the Eifel and a northward-facing subduction structure at the mantle boundary under the Alps , possibly from the Tethys subduction. He and colleagues also examined the deep structure of the upper mantle in the Andes .

Kind helped develop the GITEWS tsunami early warning system installed in Indonesia after the catastrophic seaquake in 2004 .

In 2002 he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In 2012 he became a member of the Leibniz Society , and in 2014 he received the Emil Wiechert Medal .

Fonts

  • with Xiaohui Yuan: Colliding Continents, Physics in Our Time, Volume 34, 2003, pp. 213–217
  • with Steffen Grunewald, Michael Weber: The upper mantle under central Europe: Indications for the Eifel plume, Geophys. J. Int., Vol. 147, 2001, pp. 590-601
  • with X. Yuan u. a .: Subduction and collision processes in the Central Andes constrained by converted seismic phases, Nature, Volume 408, 2000, pp. 958-961, abstract
  • with GL Kosarev, NV Petersen: Receiver functions at the stations of the German Regional Seismic Network (GRSN), Geophys. J. Int., Vol. 121, 1995, pp. 191-202
  • with X.Yuan, J. Saul u. a .: Seismic images of crust and upper mantle beneath Tibet: Evidence for Eurasian plate subduction, Science, Volume 298, 2002, pp. 1219-1221
  • with LP Vinnik: The upper mantle discontinuities underneath the GRF array from P-to-S-converted phases, Journal of Geophysics, Volume 62, 1988, pp. 138–147
  • The reflectivity method for a buried source, Journal of Geophysics, Volume 44, 1978, pp. 603-612.
  • with Jürgen Gossler: Seismic evidence for very deep roots of continents. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 138, 1996, pp. 1-13
  • with Xiaohui Yuan, Prakash Kumar: Seismic receiver functions and the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, Tectonophysics, Volume 536 / 537,2012, pp. 25-43
  • with Xiaohui Yuan, Prakash Kumar u. a .: The rapid drift of the Indian tectonic plate, Nature, Volume 449, 2007, 894

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at the Leibniz Sozietät ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / leibnizsozietaet.de
  2. ^ Anonymous: AGU elects 2002 Fellows . In: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union . tape 83 , no. 9 , 2002, ISSN  0096-3941 , p. 88 , doi : 10.1029 / 2002EO000054 ( wiley.com [accessed April 20, 2019]).
  3. ^ Wiechert medal to child, GFZ Potsdam
personal data
SURNAME Child, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Thuringia