Dr. Jasper Moernaut

Renard Centre of Marine Geology (RCMG)
Department of Geology and

 Soil Science
Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281, S8
B-9000 Gent, BELGIUM

Tel: +32-9-2644637
Fax: +32-9-2644967
Email: jasper.moernaut@ugent.be
Url: http://www.rcmg.ugent.be/

Education:

BSc in Geology
July 2003, Ghent University

MSc in Geology: option Basin Dynamics
July 2005, Ghent University
Thesis: Moernaut, J., 2005. Lago Puyehue (zuidelijk Chili): seismische stratigrafie en detailstudie van hellings-instabiliteiten. MSc thesis, UGent. 121 pp.

PhD in Science: Geology
April 2010, Ghent University
Thesis: Moernaut, J., 2010. Sublacustrine landslide processes and their paleoseismological significance: revealing the recurrence rate of giant earthquakes in South-Central Chile. PhD thesis, UGent, 274 pp.

Research Career:

01-08-2005 to 31-12-2005: Scientific personnel at Ghent University: funded by CRIMEA project
01-01-2006 to 31-12-2009: PhD student at Ghent University: funded by IWT-Flanders
01-10-2010 to ...: Postdoctoral researcher: funded by FWO-Flanders

Main Research Interests:

Limnogeology
Subaqueous Paleoseismology
Megathrust earthquake cycle
High-resolution reflection seismic profiling
Paleoclimate of Africa
Submarine landslides

Main Publications:

Moernaut, J., De Batist, M., Charlet, F., Heirman, K., Chapron, E., Pino, M., Brummer, R., Urrutia, R., 2007. Giant earthquakes in South-Central Chile revealed by Holocene mass-wasting events in Lake Puyehue. Sedimentary Geology 195(3-4), 239-256. (SCI impact factor 2008: 1.737)

Audemard, F.A., Beck, C., Moernaut, J., De Rycker, K., De Batist, M., Sánchez, J., González, M., Sánchez, C., Versteeg, W., Malavé, G., Schmitz, M., Van Welden, A., Carrillo, E., Lemus, A., 2007. La depresión de Guaracayal, estado Sucre, Venezuela: Una cuenca en tracción que funciona como barrera para la propagación de la ruptura cosísmica. Interciencia 32(11), 735-741. (SCI impact factor 2008: 0.341)

Moernaut, J., De Batist, M., Heirman, K., Van Daele, M., Pino, M., Brummer, R., Urrutia, R., 2009. Fluidization of buried mass-wasting deposits in lake sediments and its relevance for paleoseismology: Results from a reflection seismic study of lakes Villarrica and Calafquén (South-Central Chile). Sedimentary Geology 213(3-4), 121-135. (SCI impact factor 2008: 1.737)

Verschuren, D., Sinninghe Damsté, J., Moernaut, J., Kristen, I., Blaauw, M., Fagot, M., Haug, G. & CHALLACEA project members,  2009. Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African equator. Nature 462, 637-641. (SCI impact factor 2008: 31.434)

Moernaut, J., Verschuren, D., Charlet, F., Kristen, I., Fagot, M., De Batist, M., 2010. The seismic-stratigraphic record of lake-level    fluctuations in Lake Challa: hydrological stability and change in equatorial East-Africa over the last 140 kyr. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 290(1-2), 214-223. (SCI impact factor 2008: 3.955)

Stefer, S., Moernaut, J., Melnick, D., Echtler, H.P., Arz, H.W., Lamy, F., De Batist, M., Oncken, O., Haug, G.H., 2010. Forearc uplift rates deduced from sediment cores of two coastal lakes in south-central Chile. Tectonophysics. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.05.006. (SCI impact factor 2008: 1.677)

Garcia Moreno, D., Hubert-Ferrari, A., Moernaut, J., Boës, X., Fraser, J.G., Van Daele, M., Avsar, U., Ça?atay, N., De Batist, M., in press. Structure and recent evolution of the Hazar Basin: a strike-slip basin on the East Anatolian Fault, Eastern Turkey. Basin Research. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00476.x (SCI impact factor 2008: 2.086)

Survey Experience:

Seismic reflection surveys (sparker, pinger):
- 2 x with R/V Belgica on the Belgian Continental Shelf
- 1 x with R/V Guaiqueri II on the Caribbean Sea (Venezuela)
- 2 x with R/V Huala II on large lakes in South Chile
- 1 x with R/V Itü-Emcol on Lake Hazar (Southeast Turkey)

Side-scan sonar surveys:
- 1 x with R/V Zeeleeuw on the Belgian Continental Shelf
- 1 x with R/V Itü-Emcol on Lake Hazar (Southeast Turkey)

Multibeam surveys:
- 1 x with R/V Belgica on the Belgian Continental Shelf

Coring campaigns:
- 2 x  with Uwitec system (platform and piston corer) on Chilean lakes