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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Geodynamics, Numerical modeling, Salt tectonics

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

Numerical modeling of upper mantle structures and processes underneath Cenozoic Norway. This work is part of the TopoScandiaDeep project, designed to study and understand the lithosphere underneath Norway and its link to the current topography.

 

EDUCATION AND CAREER

2010-1013: Post Doctoral scholar at NGU

2005-2010*: Ph. D. Student at Dept. of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Thesis: ‘Numerical modeling of salt-tectonic processes on passive continental margins’

2004 –2005: Scientific employee at German Federal Institution for Geosciences and NaturalResources (BGR), Section for Marine Seismic Survey Techniques and Method Development (now Marine Resource Exploration)

2004: Diploma in Geophysics (equivalent to M.Sc.), Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg, Germany. Thesis: ‘Seismic studies of salt tectonic structures in the Levantine Basin’

1999-2003: Undergraduate research assistant, Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg, Germany

*to be finished by end of 2010

 

AWARDS

2005-2009 Killam Predoctoral Scholarship (awarded by Dalhousie University)

2005-2007 Government of Canada Award (awarded by Foreign Affairs Canada)

2007 Studentship Prize for oral presentation at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (awarded by Basin Research, Journal of Blackwell Publishing)

2005 Bernd Rendel Prize in Geosciences (awarded by the German Research Foundation)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Albertz, M., Beaumont, C., Shimeld, J.W., Ings, S.J., and Gradmann, S. An investigation of salt tectonic structural styles in the Scotian Basin, offshore Atlantic Canada: Part 1, comparison of observations with geometrically simple numerical models. Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2009TC002539, 2010.

Gradmann, S., Beaumont, C., and Albertz, M. Factors controlling the evolution of the Perdido Fold Belt, northwestern Gulf of Mexico, determined from numerical models. Tectonics, 22, doi:10.1029/2008TC002326, 2009.

Hübscher, C., Beitz, M., Dümmong, S., Gradmann, S., Meier, K., and Netzeband, G. Stratigraphy, fluid dynamics and structural evolution of the Messinian Evaporites in the Levantine Basin, Eastern Mediterranean Sea. In: CIESM 2008, The Messinian Salinity Crisis from mega-deposits to microbiology – a consensus report (F. Briand, ed.), CIESM Workshop Monographs, 33, p.97-105, 2008. CIESM, Monaco.

Gradmann, S., Hübscher, C., Ben-Avraham, Z., Gajewski, D., and Netzeband, G. Salt tectonics off northern Israel. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, p.597-611, 2005.