About Mertl Research

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Mertl Research GbmH is an engineering consultants company providing services in seismic monitoring, geoscience software development and custom-designed Hardware development for data acquisition. Mertl Research GmnH is a member of the Austrian Association of Consulting Engineer.

I, Stefan Mertl, founded the company in 2012. I’m specialized in seismic monitoring of mass movements and local earthquakes, near real-time data acquisition and processing, free software development with a focus on scientific computing using Python and the design of measurement systems for seismic monitoring projects.

About me

During my work at the research group Geophysics of the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the Vienna University of Technology I gained substantiated knowledge in seismic monitoring and computer coding. My focus was on small scale monitoring networks for weak event detection. During my time at the Vienna University of Technology I took part in many seismic monitoring projects with various demands (e.g. monitoring of landslides and glacier, local seismicity or a geothermal drilling site).

During my research work at the Vienna University of Technology I used the challenging demands of several research projects to improve my coding skills in the programming languages C, C++, Python and Matlab as well as micro-controller programming in C and Assembler. The usually non-trivial problems I had to solve during my research work helped me to develop my creativity in coding and to gain a certain skill of improvisation to quickly react to changing requirements.

Education

Doctor of Science, Vienna University of Technology, 2015

Magister rer.nat., Geophysics, University of Vienna, 1994 – 2003

fotoK Diploma, Artistic Photography, fotoK Vienna, 2003 – 2006

Publications

Journal Articles

K. Svennevig et al., “A large frozen debris avalanche entraining warming permafrost ground—the June 2021 Assapaat landslide, West Greenland,” Landslides, Jul. 2022.

http://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-022-01922-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-022-01922-7

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  journal = {Landslides},
  author = {Svennevig, Kristian and Hermanns, Reginald L. and Keiding, Marie and Binder, Daniel and Citterio, Michele and Dahl-Jensen, Trine and Mertl, Stefan and Sørensen, Erik Vest and Voss, Peter H.},
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E. Brückl, P. Carniel, S. Mertl, and R. Meurers, “Das Macroseismic Sensor Projekt,” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Vermessung & Geoinformation, vol. 109, no. 3, pp. 114–130, 2021.
https://www.ovg.at/de/vgi/ausgabe/1301/
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M. Behm et al., “Seismic characterization of a rapidly-rising jökulhlaup cycle at the A.P. Olsen Ice Cap, NE-Greenland,” Journal of Glaciology, vol. 66, no. 256, pp. 329–347, Apr. 2020.

http://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.9 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/seismic-characterization-of-a-rapidlyrising-jokulhlaup-cycle-at-the-ap-olsen-ice-cap-negreenland/FD499B1988C0EB5819A4E4F09B76DE1E

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  author = {Behm, Michael and Walter, Jacob I. and Binder, Daniel and Cheng, Feng and Citterio, Michele and Kulessa, Bernd and Langley, Kirsty and Limpach, Phillipe and Mertl, Stefan and Schöner, Wolfgang and Tamstorf, Mikkel and Weyss, Gernot},
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E. Brückl, K. Filz, R. Hochwartner, S. Mertl, G. Stickler, and S. Zöhling, “Monitoring von Sprengerschütterungen mit seismischen „low-cost‘ Sensoren,” BHM Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte, vol. 164, no. 10, pp. 431–437, Oct. 2019.

http://doi.org/10.1007/s00501-019-00892-z https://doi.org/10.1007/s00501-019-00892-z

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E. Brückl, F. K. Brunner, E. Lang, S. Mertl, M. Müller, and U. Stary, “The Gradenbach Observatory - monitoring deep-seated gravitational slope deformation by geodetic, hydrological, and seismological methods,” Landslides, pp. 1–15, 2013.

http://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-013-0417-1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10346-013-0417-1

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E. Brückl, W. Chwatal, S. Mertl, and A. Radinger, “Exploration Ahead of a Tunnel Face by TSWD-Tunnel Seismic White Drilling,” Geomechanics and Tunnelling, vol. 5, pp. 460–465, 2008.

http://doi.org/doi:10.1002/geot.200800050

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Chapters in Books

E. Brückl, P. Carniel, S. Mertl, and R. Meurers, “Seismological Data Acquisition and Analysis within the Scope of Citizen Science,” in Earthquakes, IntechOpen, 2021.

http://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.95273 https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/74466

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  urldate = {2021-04-07},
  booktitle = {Earthquakes},
  publisher = {IntechOpen},
  author = {Brückl, Ewald and Carniel, Peter and Mertl, Stefan and Meurers, Rita},
  month = jan,
  year = {2021},
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E. Brückl, D. Binder, and S. Mertl, “Seismic Sources from Landslides and Glaciers,” in Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering, M. Beer, I. A. Kougioumtzoglou, E. Patelli, and I. S.-K. Au, Eds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015, pp. 1–34.

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_385-1

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  urldate = {2015-09-18},
  booktitle = {Encyclopedia of {Earthquake} {Engineering}},
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Final Reports

Stefan Mertl, “MSS Outreach - Endbericht - Call 14 - Projekt ID 4547,” Mertl Research GmbH, Project Final Report, 2021.

https://www.netidee.at/sites/default/files/2021-05/prj4547_Call14_Endbericht_V04.pdf

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Daniel Binder, Stefan Mertl, Ingo Hartmayer, Markus Keuschnig, and Wolfgang Lenhardt, “SeisRockHT - Seismic Rockfall Monitoring in the Hohe Tauern region by means of Open - Design Products,” Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dec. 2020.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348296686_SeisRockHT_Final_Report

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S. Mertl, “CEON - Endbericht Netidee 2013,” Mertl Research GmbH, Technical Report, Mar. 2015.

download pdf

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Presentations at Conferences

S. Mertl, “Ruwai - an open hardware seismic data recorder.” Poster, 11-Apr-2018.

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-9497.pdf
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E. Brueckl et al., “Design and ﬁrst tests of a Macroseismic Sensor System,” 2017.

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-6418.pdf

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E. Brückl et al., “Scientiﬁc goals of SCHOOLS & QUAKES,” 2015.

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-3401-4.pdf

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