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Manfred R. Strecker

Manfred R. Strecker

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Earth Science
Germany
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
92
Citations
23738
World Ranking
238
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2014 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Earth Sciences
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Manfred R. Strecker is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and focuses extensively on research within the Earth and Planetary Sciences domain. Their academic output covers a range of subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Artificial Intelligence.

Strecker's research addresses various main topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Landslides and related hazards, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological formations and processes, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

The frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Tectonics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The list of notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Strecker demonstrates a focus on earth surface processes, rift dynamics, topography, and slope stability:

  • "Pronounced increase in slope instability linked to global warming: A case study from the eastern European Alps", 2021, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • "Victoria continental microplate dynamics controlled by the lithospheric strength distribution of the East African Rift", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Interactions between main channels and tributary alluvial fans: channel adjustments and sediment-signal propagation", 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • "Controls on Asymmetric Rift Dynamics: Numerical Modeling of Strain Localization and Fault Evolution in the Kenya Rift", 2021, Tectonics
  • "Late Cenozoic topographic evolution of the Eastern Cordillera and Puna Plateau margin in the southern Central Andes (NW Argentina)", 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent collaborators involved in these research efforts include:

  • Daniel Melnick
  • Bodo Bookhagen
  • Heiko Pingel
  • Julius Jara-Muñoz
  • Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth

Throughout their career, Strecker has received recognition such as membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina specializing in Earth Sciences in 2014. They have also been named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and received the GSA Honorary Fellow Award.

Best Publications

  • Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover

    Dirk Scherler;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes

    M.R. Strecker;R.N. Alonso;B. Bookhagen;B. Carrapa

  • Late Cenozoic Moisture History of East Africa

    Martin H. Trauth;Mark A. Maslin;Alan Deino;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Orographic barriers, high‐resolution TRMM rainfall, and relief variations along the eastern Andes

    Bodo Bookhagen;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Glacier-surface velocities in alpine terrain from optical satellite imagery—Accuracy improvement and quality assessment

    Dirk Scherler;Sébastien Leprince;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Climatic control on rapid exhumation along the Southern Himalayan Front

    Rasmus C. Thiede;Bodo Bookhagen;J.Ramón Arrowsmith;Edward R. Sobel

  • Arabia-Eurasia continental collision: Insights from late Tertiary foreland-basin evolution in the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran

    Paolo Ballato;Cornelius E. Uba;Angela Landgraf;Manfred R. Strecker

  • High- and low-latitude forcing of Plio-Pleistocene East African climate and human evolution.

    Martin H. Trauth;Mark A. Maslin;Alan L. Deino;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Formation of internally drained contractional basins by aridity-limited bedrock incision

    Edward R. Sobel;George E. Hilley;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Abnormal monsoon years and their control on erosion and sediment flux in the high, arid northwest Himalaya

    Bodo Bookhagen;Rasmus C. Thiede;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Segmentation of megathrust rupture zones from fore-arc deformation patterns over hundreds to millions of years, Arauco peninsula, Chile

    Daniel Melnick;Bodo Bookhagen;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker;Helmut Peter Echtler

  • Cenozoic contractional reactivation of Mesozoic extensional structures in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

    Andrés Mora;Mauricio Parra;Manfred R. Strecker;Andreas Kammer

  • Spatiotemporal trends in erosion rates across a pronounced rainfall gradient: Examples from the southern Central Andes

    Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Human evolution in a variable environment: the amplifier lakes of Eastern Africa

    Martin H. Trauth;Mark A. Maslin;Alan L. Deino;Annett Junginger

  • Accommodation of transpressional strain in the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone: New constraints from (U-Th)/He thermochronology in the Alborz mountains, north Iran

    Paolo Ballato;Daniel F. Stockli;Daniel F. Stockli;Mohammad R. Ghassemi;Angela Landgraf

  • Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes

    T. F. Schildgen;D Cosentino;B. Bookhagen;S. Niedermann

  • Climatic forcing of asymmetric orogenic evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

    Andrés Mora;Mauricio Parra;Manfred R. Strecker;Edward R. Sobel

  • Tectonic control on 10 Be-derived erosion rates in the Garhwal Himalaya, India

    Dirk Scherler;Dirk Scherler;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Late Cenozoic tectonism, collapse caldera and plateau formation in the central Andes

    Ulrich Riller;Ivan Petrinovic;Juliane Ramelow;Manfred Strecker

  • Episodic orogenic front migration in the northern Andes: Constraints from low‐temperature thermochronology in the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

    Mauricio Parra;Andres Mora;Andres Mora;Edward R. Sobel;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Quaternary Science Reviews Volume 29, Issues 23–24, November 2010, Pages 2981–2988 Cover image Human evolution in a variable environment: the amplifier lakes of Eastern Africa

    Eric O Odada;Lydia A Olaka;Mark A Maslin;Moses Lesoloyia

Frequent Co-Authors

Bodo Bookhagen
Bodo Bookhagen University of Potsdam
Taylor F. Schildgen
Taylor F. Schildgen University of Potsdam
Edward R. Sobel
Edward R. Sobel University of Potsdam
Daniel Melnick
Daniel Melnick Austral University of Chile
Dirk Scherler
Dirk Scherler Freie Universität Berlin
Martin H. Trauth
Martin H. Trauth University of Potsdam
Andreas Mulch
Andreas Mulch Goethe University Frankfurt
Dirk Sachse
Dirk Sachse University of Potsdam
Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth
Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth RWTH Aachen University
Helmut Echtler
Helmut Echtler University of Potsdam

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