Dr Jaco Baas
Uwch Ddarlithydd
Contact info
Position: Reader
Room: 305 Craig Mair
Phone: 01248 382894
E-mail: j.baas@bangor.ac.uk
Web: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
I am Reader in Fine Particle Dynamics in the School of Ocean Sciences, and specialise in the erosion, transport, and deposition of fine, cohesive sediment. I graduated from the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands) with a combined BSc/MSc in Sedimentary Geology in 1988. At the same university, I completed my PhD in Bedform Dynamics in 1993. Subsequently, I was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Geomar Research Centre in Kiel, Germany (studying Late-Pleistocene climate signals in slope sediments from the North-Atlantic continental margin), at the University of Rouen, France (on resuspension processes in the Seine estuary and gravel mining in the English Channel), and at the University of Bergen, Norway (investigating grain orientations in turbidite deposits).
In 1998, I moved to the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, where I started as a Marie Curie Research Fellow and then became a Senior Research Fellow. My research in Leeds included the physical properties of particulate density currents and their deposits and the dynamics of turbulence-modulated flows carrying cohesive clay particles. I took up my present post in Bangor in January 2007.
I am a process sedimentologist with more than 25 years of experience in sediment transport in fluvial, shallow marine, and deep-marine environments. My main fundamental and applied research interests include physical and biological cohesion in fine-grained sediment, the dynamics of sedimentary bedforms, and sediment gravity flows in the deep ocean, but my expertise also stretches to hydraulic engineering, palaeoclimatology, and mathematical modelling. I combine experimental research with field work to answer timely research questions, taking a blue-skies approach as well as collaborating with industry.
Research Area
- 2014
- Cyhoeddwyd
Processes and products of turbidity currents entering soft muddy substrates
Baas, J. H., Manica, R., Puhl, E., Verhagen, I. & de O.Borges, A. L., Mai 2014, Yn: Geology. 42, 5, t. 371-374Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2013
- Cyhoeddwyd
Bedform development in mixed sand–mud: The contrasting role of cohesive forces in flow and bed
Baas, J. H., Davies, A. G. & Malarkey, J., 15 Ion 2013, Yn: Geomorphology. 182, t. 19-32Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2012
- Cyhoeddwyd
Reversed sediment wave migration in the Irish Sea, NW Europe: A reappraisal of the validity of geometry-based predictive modelling and assumptions
Van Landeghem, K. J., Baas, J. H., Mitchell, N., Wilcockson, D. & Wheeler, A. J., 15 Chwef 2012, Yn: Marine Geology. 295-298, t. 95-112Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2011
- Cyhoeddwyd
Depositional processes, bedform development and hybrid bed formation in rapidly decelerated cohesive (mud–sand) sediment flows
Baas, J. H., Best, J. L. & Peakall, J., 1 Rhag 2011, Yn: Sedimentology. 58, 7, t. 1953-1987Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2009
- Cyhoeddwyd
A phase diagram for turbulent, transitional and laminar clay suspension flows.
Baas, J. H., Best, J. L., Peakall, J. & Wang, M., 1 Maw 2009, Yn: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 79, 3-4, t. 162-183Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2008
- Cyhoeddwyd
The dynamics of turbulent, transitional and laminar clay-laden flow over a fixed current ripple.
Baas, J. H. & Best, J. L., 1 Meh 2008, Yn: Sedimentology. 55, 3, t. 635-66Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Comparing flume and computer simulated turbidite flows – Implications for sediment deposition patterns and reservoir quality.
Bond, C. E., Baas, J. H., Vinnels, J., McCaffrey, W., Waltham, D. & McClean, S., 1 Ion 2008.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur
- Cyhoeddwyd
Coupling flow and deposit properties of partly cohesive high-density turbidity currents: An experimental approach.
Manica, R., Baas, J. H., Peakall, J., Maestri, R. D. & Borges, A. O., 1 Ion 2008.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur
- Cyhoeddwyd
Flow behaviour of ponded turbidity currents: an experimental study.
Patacci, M., McCaffrey, W. M., Haughton, P., Baas, J. H. & Keevil, G., 1 Ion 2008.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur
- Cyhoeddwyd
On the flow of natural clay suspensions over smooth and rough beds.
Baas, J. H. & Best, J. L., 1 Ion 2008.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur