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Curriculum Vitae

Professional activities
2011-present Research Scientist, VAW and Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich
2009-2010 Research Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2005-2009 Research Assistant, VAW, ETH Zurich
2002-2004 Research Assistant, University of Colorado
2000-2002 Research Assistant, Brigham Young University
 
Education
2009 Dr. sc. nat. ETH Zürich, Swizerland
2004 MSc University of Colorado, USA
2002 BS Brigham Young University, USA
1998 German Abitur, Marie-Curie-Oberschule, Germany
 
   
Publications
X. Chen, P. M. Shearer, F. Walter and H. A. Fricker (in press) Seventeen Antarctic seismic events detected by global surface waves and a possible link to calving events from satellite images. Journal of Geophysical Research.
F. Walter, S. O’Neel, D. McNamara, W. T. Pfeffer, J. N. Bassis and H. A. Fricker (2010) Iceberg calving during transition from grounded to floating ice: Columbia Glacier, Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters, 37(L15501), doi:10.1029/2010GL043201.
P.F. Roux, F. Walter, P. Riesen, S. Sugiyama and M. Funk (2010) Observation of surface seismic activity changes of an Alpine glacier during a glacier‐dammed lake outburst. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(F03014), doi:10.1029/2009JF001535.
F. Walter, D. S. Dreger, J. F. Clinton, N. Deichmann and M. Funk (2010). Evidence for Near‐Horizontal Faulting at the Base of Gornergletscher, a Swiss Alpine Glacier. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 100(2), 458–472, doi:10.1785/0120090083.
F. Walter, J. F. Clinton, N. Deichmann, D. S. Dreger, S. E. Minson and M. Funk (2009). Moment Tensor Inversions of Icequakes on Gornergletscher, Switzerland. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 99(2A), doi:10.1785/0120080110.
F. Walter and N. Deichmann and M. Funk (2008). Basal icequakes during changing subglacial water pressures beneath Gornergletscher, Switzerland. Journal of Glaciology, 54(186), 511–521.
Committees
   
   
Memberships
American Geophysical Union
 
Fields of Research
Glacier seismology; iceberg calving; non-double-couple seismic sources; subglacial hydraulics.
 
Awards
ETH Medal for outstanding dissertation (2010)
 
 

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