Dr Jaco Baas
Reader in Ocean Sciences
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
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The Deep-Water Architecture Knowledge Base: Towards objective comparison of deep-marine sedimentary systems.
Baas, J. H., McCaffrey, W. D. & Knipe, R. J., 1 Nov 2005, In: Petroleum Geoscience. 11, 4, p. 309-320Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ripple formation induced by biogenic mounds – Comment
Baas, J. H. & Best, J. L., 15 Aug 2000, In: Marine Geology. 168, 1-4, p. 145-151Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fine Sediment Dynamics in the Marine Environment, by J.C. Winterwerp & C. Kranenberg
Baas, J. H. & Felix, M., 1 Jan 2003, Unknown.Research output: Other contribution
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Experimental Research on Hydraulics and Depositional Mechanisms of High-Density Turbidity Currents.
Baas, J. H., 1 Jan 2000, 2000 ed. Unknown.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Experimental turbidity current transport and deposition using scaled realistic bathymetry.
Baas, J. H., McCaffrey, W. D., Pattaci, M. & Wyton, J., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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TDURE : A mathematical model for the duration of deposition from decelerating high-density turbidity currents.
Baas, J. H., Van Dam, R. L. & Storms, J. E., 1 Jan 2000, p. 74-75.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Textural characteristics of deep-marine massive sandstones: distinguishing between deposits of turbiditic and debris flow origin.
Baas, J. H., Nemec, W. & Ravnas, R., 1 Jan 2000.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Rapid gravity flow transformation revealed in a single climbing ripple
Baas, J. H., Best, J. & Peakall, J., 1 May 2021, In: Geology. 49, 5, p. 493-497Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Deposits of depletive high-density turbidity currents: a flume analogue of bed geometry, structure and texture.
Baas, J. H., Van Kesteren, W. & Postma, G., 1 Oct 2004, In: Sedimentology. 51, 5, p. 1053-1088Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An experimental model for turbulence modulation in natural clay-laden flows over flat beds, ripples and dunes.
Baas, J. H., Best, J. L. & Kellman, P., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper