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
- 2005
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Turbulence modulation in clay-laden flows over ripples and dunes.
Baas, J. H. & Best, J. L., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Turbulence modulation in clay-rich flows: Implications for depositional process and bed form geometry.
Baas, J. H. & Best, J. L., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Turbulence-modulated clay-laden flow over flat beds, ripple and dunes.
Baas, J. H. & Best, J. L., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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When is a clay-laden current turbulent, transitional or laminar? A new stability diagram based on flow dynamics and clay concentration.
Baas, J. H., Best, J. L., Peakall, J. & Wang, M., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- 2004
- Published
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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Conditions for formation of massive turbiditic sandstones by primary depositional processes.
Baas, J. H., 1 Apr 2004, In: Sedimentary Geology. 166, 3-4, p. 292-310Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Earth Science Editorial.
Baas, J. H., 1 Feb 2004, In: Annals of the Marie Curie Fellowships. 3, p. 42Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparison of spatio-temporal evolution of experimental particulate gravity flows at two different initial concentrations, based on velocity, grain size and density data.
Choux, C., Baas, J. H., McCaffrey, W. D. & Haughton, P. D., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Confined Turbidite Systems, by S.A. Lomas & P. Joseph
Baas, J. H., 1 Jan 2004, Unknown.Research output: Other contribution
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Critical parameters for cross-fault flow within deep marine clastic reservoirs: An integrated 3D stratigraphic and structural approach.
Bradbury, P. W., Freeman, S. R., Harris, S. D., Knipe, R. J., McCaffrey, W. D. & Baas, J. H., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper