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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Sole marks reveal deep-marine depositional process and environment: implications for flow transformation and hybrid event bed models
Baas, J., Tracey, N. D. & Peakall, J., 4 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 91, 9, p. 986–1009Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Current- and Wave-Generated Bedforms on Mixed Sand–Clay Intertidal Flats: A New Bedform Phase Diagram and Implications for Bed Roughness and Preservation Potential
Baas, J., Malarkey, J., Lichtman, I. D., Amoudry, L. O., Thorne, P., Hope, J. A., Peakall, J., Paterson, D. M., Bass, S., Cooke, R. D., Manning, A. J., Parsons, D. & Ye, L., 3 Nov 2021, In: Frontiers Earth Science. 9, 747567.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Experimental model for turbulence modulation in natural clay-laden flows.
Baas, J. H., Best, J. L., Peakall, J. & Wang, M., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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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Muddy Coasts of the World: Processes, Deposits and Function, by T. Healy, Y. Wang & J.-A. Healy
Baas, J. H., 1 Jan 2003, Unknown.Research output: Other contribution
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Sand Deposition from High-Density Turbidity Currents: Implications for the Emplacement Mode, Internal Structure, Texture and Geometry of Deep-Water Massive Sandstone Beds.
Baas, J. H., 1 Jan 2001, 2001 ed. Unknown.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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A phase diagram for turbulent, transitional and laminar clay suspension flows.
Baas, J. H., Best, J. L., Peakall, J. & Wang, M., 1 Mar 2009, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 79, 3-4, p. 162-183Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Physical Processes in Earth and Environmental Sciences, by M. Leeder & M. Pérez-Arlucea
Baas, J. H., 1 Sept 2006, Unknown.Research output: Other contribution
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The river-estuarine transition zone (RETZ) of the Afon Dyfi (West Wales) as test bed for sediment transfer between river catchments and coastal environments.
Baas, J. H., Jago, C. F., Macklin, M. & CCCR Team, 1 Jan 2008.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper