Dr. Michael Strasser

Since 2007
Postdoctoral researcher at MARUM – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany

2003-2007
PhD (awarded) at the Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Title of PhD thesis: Quantifying Late Quaternary Natural Hazards in Swiss Lakes: Subaquatic Landslides, Slope Stability Assessments, Paleoseismic Reconstructions and Lake Outbursts

1998-2003
Diploma (awarded) in Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Subaquatic slope stability and submarine landslides
• Paleoseismology and marine/lacustrine geohazards
• Sedimentary and reflection-seismic records of tectono-stratigraphic evolution of ocean margins and sedimentary basins
• Petrophysical and geotechnical sediment properties
• Scientific Ocean Drilling

• Strasser. M., Moore, G.F., Kimura, G., Kitamura, Y., Kopf, A.J., Lallemant, S., Park J.-O., Screaton, E.L., Su, X., Underwood, M.B., Zhao, X. (2009) Origin and Evolution of a spaly fault in the Nankai accretionary prism Nature Geoscience 2, 648-652
• Strasser, M., Anselmetti, F.S., Fäh, D., Giardini, D., Schnellmann, M., (2006), Magnitudes and source areas of large prehistoric northern Alpine earthquakes revealed by slope failures in lakes. Geology, 34 (12) 1005-1008
• Stegmann, S., Strasser, M., Anselmetti, F.S., Kopf, A. (2007). Geotechnical in situ characterisation of subaquatic slopes: The role of pore pressure transients versus frictional strength in landslide initiation. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L07607
• Strasser, M., Stegmann, S., Bussmann, F., Anselmetti, F.S., Rick, B., Kopf, A. (2007). Quantifying subaqueous slope stability during seismic shaking: Lake Lucerne, Central Switzerland, as model for ocean margins. Marine Geology, 240, 77-97.
• Strasser, M., Moore, G., Kimura, G., Kopf, A., Underwood, M., Guo, J., Screaton E. (2011), Slumping and mass-transport deposition in the Nankai forearc: Evidence from IODP drilling and 3-D reflection seismic data. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, in press

actively involved in:

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program - IODP
IODP Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment - NanTroSEIZE
IODP Nankai Trough Submarine Landslide History - NanTroSLIDE

UNESCO - International Geoscience Program - IGCP
IGCP-585; Earth´s continental Margins: assessing the geohazard from submarine landslides (E-MARSHAL)

MARUM Projects:
MARUM Research Project SD5:Trigger and failure mechasnisms of gravitational mass movements: Neotectonics, sediment physics and fluid activity
MARUM Research Project SD3: Slope achitecture and evolution of sedimentary regimes
CREtan Sea Tectonics and Sedimentology - CRESTS

Swiss Lakes Projects:
Slope instabilities in Swiss Lakes [....]
Paleoseismology based on lake sediments [....]

NEW Swiss National Science Foundation Project at ETH Zürich starting October 2011:
Dynamic Nankai Trough (Japan) and Swiss Molasse Basin: Investigating NeoTectonics, Paleo-Earthquakes and associated Geohazards (DYNAMITE)