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Vandorpe, Thomas
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3D Turbidity assessment through Integration of MultiBeam Echo-sounding and optical Remote Sensing, more
Coastbusters 2.0, more
SSPIRIT - From Seabed to SPace: Identifying and quantifying plastic litteR with Innovative remote sensing Technologies, more
Testen op zee vanuit de Blue Accelerator: uitbreiden van de testinfrastructuur in functie van de noden en groeiende vraag, more
Towards 3D SPM and turbidity mapping in the water column using optical remote sensing and multibeam sonar, more
Towards 3D TURbidity by correlating multiBEAM sonar and in-situ Sensor data, more

Flanders Marine Institute; Renard Centre of Marine Geology - Ugent (2019). Global contourite distribution database, version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org, more
TIMBERS: Praet, N.; Vandorpe T.; Ollevier, A.; Dierssen, H.; Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Belgium; University of Connecticut: USA; (2022): TIMBERS in-situ sensor dataset. Marine Data Archive., more
Vandorpe, T.; Langedock, K.; Moulaert, I.; Flanders Marine Institute: Belgium; (2025): Bathymetric data and difference maps Coastbusters 2.0 project. Marine Data Archive., more

A1 Publications (21) [show]
Haalboom, S.; de Stigter, H.; Mohn, C.; Vandorpe, T.; Smit, M.; de Jonge, L.; Reichart, G.-J. (2023). Monitoring of a sediment plume produced by a deep-sea mining test in shallow water, Málaga Bight, Alboran Sea (southwestern Mediterranean Sea). Mar. Geol. 456: 106971. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106971, more Praet, N.; Collart, T.; Ollevier, A.; Roche, M.; Degrendele, K.; De Rijcke, M.; Urban, P.; Vandorpe, T. (2023). The potential of multibeam sonars as 3D turbidity and SPM monitoring tool in the North Sea. Remote Sens. 15(20): 4918. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15204918, more Vandorpe, T.; Delivet, S.; Blamart, D.; Wienberg, C.; Bassinot, F.; Mienis, F.; Stuut, J.-B.W.; Van Rooij, D. (2023). Palaeoceanographic and hydrodynamic variability for the last 47kyr in the southern Gulf of Cádiz (Atlantic Moroccan margin): Sedimentary and climatic implications. Depositional Record 9(1): 30-51. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dep2.212, more d'Acremont, E.; Lafuerza, S.; Rabaute, A.; Lafosse, M.; Jollivet Castelot, M.; Gorini, C.; Alonso, B.; Ercilla, G.; Vázquez, J.T.; Vandorpe, T.; Juan, C.; Migeon, S.; Ceramicola, S.; López-González, N.; Rodriguez, M.; El Moumni, B.; Benmarha, O.; Ammar, A. (2022). Distribution and origin of submarine landslides in the active margin of the southern Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea). Mar. Geol. 445: 106739. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106739, more Praet, N.; Van Daele, M.; Moernaut, J.; Mestdagh, T.; Vandorpe, T.; Jensen, B.J.L.; Witter, R.C.; Haeussler, P.J.; De Batist, M. (2022). Unravelling a 2300 year long sedimentary record of megathrust and intraslab earthquakes in proglacial Skilak Lake, south‐central Alaska. Sedimentology 69(5): 2151-2180. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sed.12986, more Alonso, B.; Juan, C.; Ercilla, G.; Cacho, I.; López-González, N.; Rodríquez-Tovar, F.J.; Dorador, J.; Francés, G.; Casas, D.; Vandorpe, T.; Vázquez, J.T. (2021). Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic variability in the Western Mediterranean during the last 25 cal. kyr BP. New insights from contourite drifts. Mar. Geol. 437: 106488. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106488, more Chen, H.; Stow, D.A.V.; Xie, X.; Ren, J.; Mao, K.; Gao, Y.; Chen, B.; Zhang, W.; Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D. (2021). Depositional architecture and evolution of basin-floor fan systems since the Late Miocene in the Northwest Sub-Basin, South China Sea. Mar. Pet. Geol. 126: 104803. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104803, more Garcia-Moreno, D.; Vandorpe, T.; De Clercq, M.; Roche, M.; Vertino, A.; Missiaen, T. (2021). Characterisation of Middle–Late Pleistocene groove-and-ridge landforms incised across the Dover Strait. Geomorphology (Amst.) 376: 107517. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107517, more Molenaar, A.; Van Daele, M.; Vandorpe, T.; Degenhart, G.; De Batist, M.; Urrutia, R.; Pino, M.; Strasser, M.; Moernaut, J. (2021). What controls the remobilization and deformation of surficial sediment by seismic shaking? Linking lacustrine slope stratigraphy to great earthquakes in South–Central Chile. Sedimentology 68(6): 2365-2396. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sed.12856, more Hebbeln, D.; Bender, M.; Gaide, S.; Titschack, J.; Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D.; Wintersteller, P.; Wienberg, C. (2019). Thousands of cold-water coral mounds along the Moroccan Atlantic continental margin: distribution and morphometry. Mar. Geol. 411: 51-61. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.02.001, more Liu, S.; Van Rooij, D.; Vandorpe, T.; González-Pola, C.; Ercilla, G.; Hernández-Molina, F.J. (2019). Morphological features and associated bottom-current dynamics in the Le Danois Bank region (southern Bay of Biscay, NE Atlantic): A model in a topographically constrained small basin. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 149: 103054. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.05.014, more Moernaut, J.; Van Daele, M.; Heirman, K.; Wiemer, G.; Molenaar, A.; Vandorpe, T.; Melnick, D.; Hajdas, I.; Pino, M.; Urrutia, R.; De Batist, M. (2019). The subaqueous landslide cycle in south-central Chilean lakes: the role of tephra, slope gradient and repeated seismic shaking. Sediment. Geol. 381: 84-105. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.01.002, more Praet, N.; Van Daele, M.; Moernaut, J.; Mestdagh, T.; Vandorpe, T.; Haeussler, P.J.; De Batist, M. (2019). Landslide and megaturbidite records reveal a 2.5 kyr history of seismic shakingin Skilak Lake, Alaska. Seismological Research Letters 90(2B): 921-922, more Vandorpe, T.; Collart, T.; Cnudde, V.; Lebreiro, S.M.; Hernández-Molina, F.J.; Alonso, B.; Mena, A.; Antón, L.; Van Rooij, D. (2019). Quantitative characterisation of contourite deposits using medical CT. Mar. Geol. 417: 106003. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106003, more Vandorpe, T.; Wienberg, C.; Hebbeln, D.; Van den Berghe, M.; Gaide, S.; Wintersteller, P.; Van Rooij, D. (2017). Multiple generations of buried cold-water coral mounds since the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition in the Atlantic Moroccan Coral Province, southern Gulf of Cádiz. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 485: 293-304. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.06.021, more Chen, H.; Xie, X.; Zhang, W.; Shu, Y.; Wang , D.; Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D. (2016). Deep-water sedimentary systems and their relationship with bottom currents at the intersection of Xisha Trough and Northwest Sub-Basin, South China Sea. Mar. Geol. 378: 101-113. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.11.002, more Vandorpe, T.; Martins, I.; Vitorino, J.; Hebbeln, D.; García, M.; Van Rooij, D. (2016). Bottom currents and their influence on the sedimentation pattern in the El Arraiche mud volcano province, southern Gulf of Cadiz. Mar. Geol. 378: 114-126. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2015.11.012, more Chen, H.; Xie, X.; Van Rooij, D.; Vandorpe, T.; Su, M.; Wang, D. (2014). Depositional characteristics and processes of alongslope currents related to a seamount on the northwestern margin of the Northwest Sub-Basin, South China Sea. Mar. Geol. 355: 36-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2014.05.008, more Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D.; de Haas, H. (2014). Stratigraphy and paleoceanography of a topography-controlled contourite drift in the Pen Duick area, southern Gulf of Cádiz. Mar. Geol. 349: 136-151. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2014.01.007, more Chen, H.; Xie, X.N.; Van Rooij, D.; Vandorpe, T.; Huang, L.; Guo, L.Y.; Su, M. (2013). Depositional characteristics and spatial distribution of deep-water sedimentary systems on the northwestern middle-lower slope of the Northwest Sub-Basin, South China Sea. Mar. Geophys. Res. 34(3-4): 239-257. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11001-013-9191-7, more Vandorpe, T. P.; Van Rooij, D.; Stow, D. A. V.; Henriet, J.-P. (2011). Pliocene to recent shallow-water contourite deposits on the shelf and shelf edge off south-western Mallorca, Spain. Geo-Mar. Lett. 31(5-6): 391-403. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00367-011-0248-9, more
Peer reviewed publications (2) [show]
Rüggeberg, A.; Flögel, S.; Foubert, A.; Martins, I.M.; Vitorio, J.; Raddatz, J.; Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D.; Dullo, W.-C. (2018). Of mounds and water masses – oceanic controls on carbonate mound settings along the NE Atlantic margin. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 20: EGU2018-8471, more Vandorpe, T.; Hebbeln, D.; Wienberg, C.; Van den Berghe, M.; Van Rooij, D. (2016). Buried cold-water coral mounds and contourite deposits in the Atlantic Moroccan Coral Province. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 18: EGU2016-5794, more
Theses (2) [show]
Vandorpe, T. (2017). Contourite drifts and cold-water coral mounds in the Atlantic Moroccan coral province. Origin, evolution and driving factors = Contourietdriften en koudwaterkoraalheuvels in de Atlantische Marokkaanse koraalprovincie. Oorsprong, evolutie en sturende factoren. PhD Thesis. Ghent University. Faculty of Sciences: Ghent. 172 pp., more Vandorpe, T. (2010). Seismic stratigraphy of Plio-Pleistocene deposits on the shelf edge SW off Mallorca, Spain. MSc Thesis. Universiteit Gent. Vakgroep Geologie en Bodemkunde: Gent. 139 pp., more
Abstracts (24) [show]
Albers, S.; Vandorpe, T.; Caudron, C.; Schmidt, B.; Ritter, J.; Reicherter, K.; De Batist, M. (2024). Gas migration beneath Laacher See: acoustic imaging of shallow CO₂ in the sediment and water column, in: EGU General Assembly 2024. Vienna, Austria & Online, 14-19 April 2024. pp. EGU24-14791. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-14791, more Urban, P.; Praet, N.; Vandorpe, T.; Hermans, T. (2024). Themachinethatgoesping: Pythonic(++) processing of MBES and SBES data, in: EGU General Assembly 2024. Vienna, Austria & Online, 14-19 April 2024. pp. EGU24-19250. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-19250, more Praet, N.; Collart, T.; Ollevier, A.; Roche, M.; Degrendele, K.; De Rijcke, M.; Vandorpe, T. (2023). The potential of multibeam sonars as 3D turbidity and SPM monitoring tool in the North Sea, in: Mees, J. et al. Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day, 1 March 2023, Bruges. VLIZ Special Publication, 90: pp. 92-93, more Albers, S.; Vandorpe, T.; Caudron, C.; Versteeg, W.; De Batist, M. (2022). Hydroacoustic imaging of underwater gas seepage: investigating the use of echosounders for fluid discharge detection in a nearby natural laboratory (Laacher See, Germany), in: Mees, J. et al. Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day, Online event 2 March 2022. VLIZ Special Publication, 88: pp. 31, more Vandorpe, T.; Cattrijsse, A.; Vermaut, J.; Versteeg, W.; Mertens, T. (2022). A new VLIZ workboat: increased seagoing capacity for Flemish researchers, in: Mees, J. et al. Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day, Online event 2 March 2022. VLIZ Special Publication, 88: pp. 88, more Molenaar, A.; Van Daele, M.; Vandorpe, T.; Degenhart, G.; De Batist, M.; Urrutia, R.; Pino, M.; Strasser, M.; Moernaut, J. (2021). Which factors modulate earthquake-triggered soft sediment deformation? Moving towards quantitative lacustrine paleoseismology, in: EGU General Assembly 2021. vEGU21: Gather Online \| 19-30 April 2021. pp. EGU21-3412. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3412, more Praet, N.; Vandorpe, T.; De Rijcke, M. (2020). Developing an innovative method to map turbidity in the North Sea, in: Mees, J. et al. Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day. Oostende, Belgium, 18 March 2020. VLIZ Special Publication, 84: pp. 34-35, more Jin, J.; De Sloover, L.; Vandorpe, T.; De Wulf, A. (2019). Comparing airborne LiDAR and multibeam echo sounding on different beach types: a case study for the Belgian coast, in: Belgian Geographers Days, 8th, Book of abstracts. pp. 121, more Hablützel, P.I.; Langeveld, B.; De Clercq, M.; Post, P.; Mol, D.; Vandorpe, T.; De Rijcke, M.; Lambert, O.; Missiaen, T.; Vandegehuchte, M.B. (2018). The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus): a distinctive member of the Pleistocene megafauna in Belgium, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – 53^rd European Marine Biology Symposium. Oostende, Belgium, 17-21 September 2018. VLIZ Special Publication, 82: pp. 46, more Vandorpe, T.; Cattrijsse, A.; De Rijcke, M.; Versteeg, W. (2018). Marine Robotics @ VLIZ, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Scientist Day. Bredene, Belgium, 21 March 2018. VLIZ Special Publication, 80: pp. 55, more Delivet, S.; Vandorpe, T.; Wienberg, C.; Blamart, D.; Bassinot, F.; Mienis, F.; Stuut, J.-B.W.; Van Rooij, D. (2016). Cold-water coral occurrence and critical bottom current conditions in the Pen Duick Escarpment (Gulf of Cadiz, Moroccan margin), in: Baele, J.-M. et al. Proceedings of the 5^th International Geologica Belgica Congress: 26–29 January 2016 – Mons, Belgium. pp. 218, more Van Rooij, D.; Vandorpe, T.; Vandenberghe, M.; Hebbeln, D.; Wienberg, C. (2016). Buried cold-water coral mounds along the Moroccan Atlantic Margin: new insights in cold-water coral mound growth processes?, in: Baele, J.-M. et al. Proceedings of the 5^th International Geologica Belgica Congress: 26–29 January 2016 – Mons, Belgium. pp. 220, more Vandorpe, T.; Martins, I.; Vitorino, J.; Hebbeln, D.; García, M.; Van Rooij, D. (2016). Contourite deposits in the El Arraiche area, southern Gulf of Cadiz, in: Baele, J.-M. et al. Proceedings of the 5^th International Geologica Belgica Congress: 26–29 January 2016 – Mons, Belgium. pp. 232, more Vandorpe, T.; Hebbeln, D.H.; Wienberg, C.W.; Van den Berghe, M.; Van Rooij, D. (2016). Cold-water corals in the southern Gulf of Cadiz, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Scientist Day. Brugge, Belgium, 12 February 2016. VLIZ Special Publication, 75: pp. 126, more Chen, H.; Xie, X.; Shu, Y.; Wang, D.; Van Rooij, D.; Vandorpe, T.; Mao, K.; Su, M. (2014). Deep-water depositional characteristics and relationship with bottom currents at the intersection of Xi’sha Trough and Northwest Sub-Basin, South China Sea, in: Van Rooij, D. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts. 2nd Deep-Water Circulation Congress: The Contourite Log-book. Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2014. VLIZ Special Publication, 69: pp. 67-68, more Martins, I.X.; Vitorino, J.; Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D. (2014). A physical oceanography contribution to understand the processes affecting El-Arraiche Mud Volcano field (NW Moroccan Margin), in: Van Rooij, D. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts. 2nd Deep-Water Circulation Congress: The Contourite Log-book. Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2014. VLIZ Special Publication, 69: pp. 111-112, more Van Rooij, D.; Vandorpe, T.; Delivet, S.; Hebbeln, D.; Wienberg, C.; Martins, I.M.; Belgica COMIC; MD194 Gateway; MSM36 MoccoMebo Shipboard Scientific parties (2014). Buried cold-water coral mound provinces and contourite drifts along the Eastern Atlantic margin: controls, interactions and connectivity, in: Van Rooij, D. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts. 2nd Deep-Water Circulation Congress: The Contourite Log-book. Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2014. VLIZ Special Publication, 69: pp. 49-50, more Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D.; De Haas, H.; Martins, I.X. (2014). Obstacle-related contourite drifts in the El Araiche Mud Volcano field, Southern Gulf of Cádiz, in: Van Rooij, D. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts. 2nd Deep-Water Circulation Congress: The Contourite Log-book. Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2014. VLIZ Special Publication, 69: pp. 73-74, more Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D.; Lebreiro, S.M.; Alonso, B.; Mena, A.; Cnudde, V.; Hernández-Molina, F.J. (2014). Medical CT-images of contourite cores: An onset to processing and data interpretation, in: Van Rooij, D. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts. 2nd Deep-Water Circulation Congress: The Contourite Log-book. Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2014. VLIZ Special Publication, 69: pp. 129-130, more Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D.; De Haas, H.; Hernández-Molina, F.J. (2014). Stratigraphy and palaeoceanography of a topography-controlled contourite drift system in the Pen Duick area, Southern Gulf of Cadiz, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Young Scientists’ Day. Brugge, Belgium, 7 March 2014. VLIZ Special Publication, 67: pp. 119, more Henriet, J.P.; Rüggeberg, A.; Foubert, A.; Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D.; Vitorino, J. (2013). Some reflections on mounds and water masses: a tentative typology of the North Atlantic Mound Basin, in: Vertino, A. et al. COCARDE workshop and field seminar, Sicily, 23-27 September 2013. Bridging off-shore and on-land research on carbonate mounds: common concepts and techniques. pp. 21-22, more Vansteenberge, S.; Van Rooij, D.; Vandorpe, T.; Puig, P. (2013). Genesis and evolution of the Ibiza slide, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day. Brugge, Belgium, 15 February 2013. VLIZ Special Publication, 63: pp. 102, more Vandorpe, T.; Van Rooij, D.; Vangampelaere, E.; Ransschaert, M.; Dejonghe, C.; Blamart, D.; Henriet, J.-P. (2012). Contourite depositional systems in the southern Gulf of Cadiz: stratigraphy and palaeoceanography of the Pen Duick area, in: Devleeschouwer, X. et al. Abstract Book. 4^th International Geologica Belgica Meeting 2012, September 11-14, Brussels, Belgium. pp. 274, more Vandorpe, T. (2011). Seismic stratigraphy of Plio-Pleistocene deposits on the shelf edge SW off Mallorca, Spain, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 25 February 2011: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 48: pp. 2, more
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Molenaar, A.; Van Daele, M.; Vandorpe, T.; Degenhart, G.; De Batist, M.; Urrutia, R.; Pino, M.; Strasser, M.; Moernaut, J. (2020). What controls the remobilization and deformation of surficial sediment by seismic shaking? Linking lacustrine slope stratigraphy to great earthquakes in south-central Chile. ESSOAr: Earth and Space Science Open Archive (preprint): 1-66. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10504161.1, more
Thesis (co-)promotor [show]
Dekoninck, W. (2021). Multibeam monitoring van kunstmatige mosselriffen in het kader van het Project Coastbusters 2.0. BSc Thesis. Universiteit Gent: Gent. 19 pp., more
Thesis supervisor (4) [show]
Shymbaliova, N. (2021). Very-high resolution ROV-borne multibeam mapping of dynamic seabed features over a contourite drift, offshore Ireland. MSc Thesis. Oceans & Lakes, Interuniversity Master in Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management: Brussels. 32 pp., more Shymbaliova, N. (2020). Very-high resolution ROV-borne multibeam mapping of dynamic seabed features over a contourite drift, offshore Ireland: literature review of master's dissertation. MSc Thesis. Oceans & Lakes, Interuniversity Master in Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management: Brussels. 18 pp., more Van den Berghe, M. (2015). First quantitative assessment of buried cold-water coral mounds along the Moroccan Atlantic margin. MSc Thesis. Universiteit Gent. Faculteit Wetenschappen: Gent. 80 pp., more Cunha, A.G. (2014). Sedimentological and geochemical characterization of a small scale turbidite cycle in the El Arraiche Mud Volcano Province (Gulf of Cádiz). MSc Thesis. Universiteit Antwerpen/Universiteit Gent/VUB: Antwerpen, Gent, Brussel. 11, 38 pp., more

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