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Vandorpe, Thomas
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Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more

Function: Marine Technician Research Infrastructure
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Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Geologie; Renard Centre of Marine Geology (RCMG), more

Function: Geologist, Assistant

3D Turbidity assessment through Integration of MultiBeam Echo-sounding and optical Remote Sensing, more
Coastbusters 2.0, 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

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
Other publication [show]
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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