Sofia-Katerina Kufner
Glacier Geophysicist
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Sofia-Katerina Kufner
Glacier Geophysicist
Biography
since 10/2019 Postdoc – Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate team | British Antarctic Survey | Cambridge, UK
04/2019 – 09/2019 DAAD Fellowship – Department of earth sciences | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, USA
01/2018 – 03/2019 Postdoc – Lithosphere Dynamics group | GFZ | Potsdam, Germany
07/2016 – 12/2017 Helmholtz Graduate School Coordinator | GFZ | Potsdam, Germany
07/2012 – 06/2016 PhD | Free University Berlin/GFZ | Berlin/Potsdam, Germany
10/2006 – 06/2012 Bachelor/Master | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | Karlsruhe, Germany & Victoria University of Wellington | Wellington, New Zealand
Research interests
I am using seismological data to understand active processes on various scales ranging from tectonic deformation to glacial microseismicity.
• Selected methods:
Local earthquake data collection and processing: Automated earthquake location for large continuous datasets | Application of single and joint (re)location methods | Determination of focal mechanisms | Shear wave splitting
Seismic travel time tomography: Local and/or teleseismic tomography | Joint finite frequency tomography including local and telseismic data
• And applications:
Continental collision and dynamics of the lithosphere: Understanding the feedback between topography, crustal and deep lithospheric structure | Understanding the reasons for deep seismicity in continental settings
Cryoseisology: see BEAMISH project for details
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2021
Bloch, Wasja, Schurr, Bernd, Yuan, Xiaohui, Ratschbacher, Lothar, Reuter, Sanaa, Kufner, Sofia-Katerina ORCID record for Sofia-Katerina Kufner, Xu, Qiang, Zhao, Junmeng. (2021) Structure and stress field of the lithosphere between Pamir and Tarim. Geophysical Research Letters, 48. 11 pp. 10.1029/2021GL095413
Brisbourne, Alex M. ORCID record for Alex M. Brisbourne, Kendall, Michael, Kufner, Sofia-Katerina ORCID record for Sofia-Katerina Kufner, Hudson, Thomas S., Smith, Andrew M. ORCID record for Andrew M. Smith. (2021) Downhole distributed acoustic seismic profiling at Skytrain Ice Rise, West Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 15. 3443-3458. 10.5194/tc-15-3443-2021
Hudson, T.S., Baird, A.F., Kendall, J.M., Kufner, S.-K. ORCID record for S.-K. Kufner, Brisbourne, A.M. ORCID record for A.M. Brisbourne, Smith, A.M. ORCID record for A.M. Smith, Butcher, A., Chalari, A., Clarke, A.. (2021) Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for natural microseismicity studies: A case study from Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126. 19 pp. 10.1029/2020JB021493
Kufner, Sofia-Katerina ORCID record for Sofia-Katerina Kufner, Brisbourne, Alex M. ORCID record for Alex M. Brisbourne, Smith, Andrew M. ORCID record for Andrew M. Smith, Hudson, Thomas S., Murray, Tavi, Schlegel, Rebecca, Kendall, John M., Anandakrishnan, Sridhar, Lee, Ian. (2021) Not all icequakes are created equal: basal icequakes suggest diverse bed deformation mechanisms at Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126. 10.1029/2020JF006001
Kufner, Sofia-Katerina ORCID record for Sofia-Katerina Kufner, Kakar, N., Bezada, M., Bloch, W., Metzger, S., Yuan, X., Mechie, J., Ratschbacher, L., Murodkulov, S., Deng, Z., Schurr, B.. (2021) The Hindu Kush slab break-off as revealed by deep structure and crustal deformation.. Nature Communications, 12. 11 pp. 10.1038/s41467-021-21760-w
Butcher, A., Hudson, T. ORCID record for T. Hudson, Kendall, M., Kufner, S-K. ORCID record for S-K. Kufner, Brisbourne, A. ORCID record for A. Brisbourne, Stork, A.. (2021) Radon transform-based detection of microseismicity on DAS networks: A case study from Antarctica. In: EAGE GeoTech 2021 Second EAGE Workshop on Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing Online, March 1-5 2021. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers.
Hudson, T. ORCID record for T. Hudson, Baird, A., Kendall, M., Kufner, S-K. ORCID record for S-K. Kufner, Brisbourne, A. ORCID record for A. Brisbourne, Smith, A., Butcher, A., Chalari, A., Clarke, A.. (2021) Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Antarctica: What we can learn for studying microseismicity elsewhere. In: EAGE GeoTech 2021 Second EAGE Workshop on Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing Online, March 1-5 2021. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers.
Kendall, M., Brisbourne, Alex ORCID record for Alex Brisbourne, Hudson, T. ORCID record for T. Hudson, Kufner, S-K. ORCID record for S-K. Kufner, Butcher, A., Baird, A., Smith, A. ORCID record for A. Smith, Chalari, A., Clarke, A.. (2021) Listening to Ice Sheets – Fibre Optic Cables as Seismic Sensors in the Antarctic. In: EAGE GeoTech 2021 Second EAGE Workshop on Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing Online, March 1-5 2021. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers.
2020
Chen, J., Kufner, S-K. ORCID record for S-K. Kufner, Yuan, X., Heit, B., Wu, H., Yang, D., Schurr, B., Kay, S.. (2020) Lithospheric delamination beneath the southern Puna plateau resolved by local earthquake tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125. 17 pp. 10.1029/2019JB019040
Reid, Catherine, Begg, John, Mouslopoulou, Vasiliki, Oncken, Onno, Nicol, Andrew, Kufner, Sofia-Katerina ORCID record for Sofia-Katerina Kufner. (2020) Using a calibrated upper living position of marine biota to calculate coseismic uplift: a case study of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. Earth Surface Dynamics, 8. 351-366. 10.5194/esurf-8-351-2020