Research Interests
- Submarine hazards
- Slope stabilities and submarine landslides
- Sediment processes along continental margins
- Evolution of lakes
- Evolution of submarine volcanos
Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe
Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, R. 110
Telefon:
+49 431 880-3914
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+49 431 880-4432
sebastian.krastel@ifg.uni-kiel.de
Professor für Marine Geophysik und Hydroakustik
Koordinator des SSP106 Schwerpunktprogrammes: Internationales Kontinentales Bohrprogramm (ICDP)
since 10/2012 Professor for ‘Marine Geophysics and Hydroacoustics’ Kiel University
03/2008 - 09/2012 Professor for ‘Submarine Hazards at Continental Margins’ GEOMAR, Kiel University
2007 - 2008 ‘Akademischer Rat’ at the ‘Marine Technology/ Environmental Research’ Group of the Department of Geosciences, Bremen Uni
2001 - 2006 ‘Wissenschaftlicher Assistent’ at the ‘Marine Technology/ Environmental Research’ Group of the Department of Geosciences, Bremen Uni
1999 - 2000 Post-Doc at GEOMAR Research Center, Kiel, Germany. Project: ‘Volcanic and geodynamic evolution of the Canary Archipelago and adjacent seamounts’.
12/1999 Ph.D. in earthsciences. Title of thesis: 'Growth processes and destructive events during the evolution of volcanic islands: a case study from the Canary Islands'.
1995 - 1999 Ph.D.-student at the graduate school 'Dynamics of Global Cycles', GEOMAR Research Center, Kiel, Germany
06/1995 MSc (Diplom Geophysiker)
1988 - 1995 Study of Geophysics at Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
TREUDE, T., KRAUSE, S., STEINLE, L., BURWICZ, E., HAMDAN, L.J., NIEMANN, H., FESEKER, T., LIEBETRAU, V., KRASTEL, S., BERNDT, C. (2020) Biogeochemical consequences of non-vertical methane transport in sediment offshore northwestern Svalbard. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125, e2019JG005371, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005371
COUVIN, B., GEORGIOPOULOU, A., MOUNTJOY, J.J., AMY, L., CRUTCHLEY, G.J., BRUNET, M., CARDONA, S., GROSS, F., BÖTTNER, C., KRASTEL, S., PECHER, I. (2020) A new depositional model for the Tuaheni Landslide Complex, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand. Geological Society Special Publications, 500, 551-566. doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-180
BARRETT, R.S., LEBAS, E., RAMALHO, R., KLAUCKE, I., KUTTEROLF, S., KLÜGEL, A., LINDHORST, K., GROSS, F., KRASTEL, S. (2020) Revisiting the tsunamigenic volcanic flank-collapse of Fogo Island in the Cape Verdes, offshore West Africa. Geological Society Special Publications, 500, 13-26. doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-187
HUHN, K., ARROYO, M., CATTANEO, A., CLATE, M.A., GRÀCIA, E., HARBITZ, C.B., KRASTEL, S., KOPF, A., LØVHOLT, F., ROVERE, M., STRASSER, M., TALLING, P.J., URGELES, R. (2020) Modern Submarine Landslide Complexes: A Short Review. in: Submarine Landslides: Subaqueous Mass-Transport Deposits from Outcrops to Seismic Profiles, (eds: Ogata. K., Festa, A., Pimni, G.A.). Geophysical Monograph, 247, 183-200
URLAUB, M., KRASTEL, S., SCHWENK, T. (2020) Submarine landslides in an upwelling system: Climatically controlled preconditioning of the Cap Blanc Slide complex offshore Northwest Africa. in: Submarine Landslides: Subaqueous Mass-Transport Deposits from Outcrops to Seismic Profiles, (eds: Ogata. K., Festa, A., Pimni, G.A.). Geophysical Monograph, 247, 299-311
WAGNER, B., et al. (2019) Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoon during past 1.36 million years. Nature, 573, 256-260. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1529-0
SCHULTEN, I., MOSHER, D.C., PIPER, D.J., KRASTEL, S. (2019) A massive slump on the St. Pierre Slope, a new perspective on the 1929 Grand Banks submarine landslide. Journal of Geophysical Research, 124, 7538-7561, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017066
GEORGIOPOULOU, A., KRASTEL, S., FINCH, N., ZEHN, K., MCCARRON, S., HUVENNE, V.A.I., HAUGHTON, P., SHANNON, P.M. (2019) On the timing and nature of the multiple phases of slope instability on Eastern Rockall Bank, Northeast Atlantic. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007674
LEBAS, E., S. KRASTEL, B. WAGNER, R. GROMIG, G. FEDOROV, M. BAUMER, N. KOSTROMINA and H. HAFLIDASON (2019). Seismic stratigraphical record of Lake Levinson-Lessing, Taymyr Peninsula: evidence for ice-sheet dynamics and lake-level fluctuations since the Early Weichselian. Boreas.
GROMIG, R., B. WAGNER, V. WENNRICH, G. FEDOROV, L. SAVELIEVA, E. LEBAS, S. KRASTEL, D. BRILL, A. ANDREEV, D. SUBETTO and M. MELLES (2019). Deglaciation history of Lake Ladoga (northwestern Russia) based on varved sediments. Boreas.
URLAUB, M., J. GEERSEN, S. KRASTEL and T. SCHWENK (2018). Diatom ooze: Crucial for the generation of submarine mega-slides? Geology 46(4): 331-334.
STEVENSON, C. J., P. FELDENS, A. GEORGIOPOULOU, M. SCHӦNKE, S. KRASTEL, D. J. W. PIPER, K. LINDHORST and D. MOSHER (2018). "Reconstructing the sediment concentration of a giant submarine gravity flow." Nature Communications 9(1): 2616.
SCHULTEN, I., D. C. MOSHER, S. KRASTEL, D. J. PIPER and M. KIENAST (2018). Surficial sediment failures due to the 1929 Grand Banks Earthquake, St Pierre Slope. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 477: SP477. 425.
BÖTTNER, C., F. GROSS, J. GEERSEN, G. CRUTCHLEY, J. MOUNTJOY and S. KRASTEL (2018). "Marine forearc extension in the Hikurangi margin: New insights from high‐resolution 3D seismic data." Tectonics.
CLARE, M., J. CHAYTOR, O. DABSON, D. GAMBOA, A. GEORGIOPOULOU, H. EADY, J. HUNT, C. JACKSON, O. KATZ and S. KRASTEL (2018). "A consistent global approach for the morphometric characterization of subaqueous landslides." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 477: SP477. 415.
ELGER, J., C. BERNDT, L. RÜPKE, S. KRASTEL, F. GROSS and W. H. GEISSLER (2018). "Submarine slope failures due to pipe structure formation." Nature Communications 9(1): 715.
LI, W., S. KRASTEL, T. M. ALVES, M. URLAUB, L. MEHRINGER, A. SCHÜRER, P. FELDENS, F. GROSS, C. J. STEVENSON and R. B. WYNN (2018). The Agadir Slide offshore NW Africa: Morphology, emplacement dynamics, and potential contribution to the Moroccan Turbidite System. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 498: 436-449.
KRASTEL, S., W. LI, M. URLAUB, A. GEORGIOPOULOU, R. WYNN, T. SCHWENK, C. STEVENSON and P. FELDENS (2018). "Mass wasting along the NW African continental margin." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 477: SP477. 436.
LØVHOLT, F., I. SCHULTEN, D. MOSHER, C. HARBITZ and S. KRASTEL (2018). "Modelling the 1929 Grand Banks slump and landslide tsunami." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 477: SP477. 428.
MICALLEF, A., A. CAMERLENGHI, D. GARCIA-CASTELLANOS, D. CUNARRO OTERO, M.-A. GUTSCHER, G. BARRECA, D. SPATOLA, L. FACCHIN, R. GELETTI, S. KRASTEL, F. GROSS and M. URLAUB (2018). "Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin." Scientific reports 8(1): 1078.
MICALLEF, A., S. KRASTEL and A. SAVINI (2018). Submarine Geomorphology.
SCHULTEN, I., D. C. MOSHER, S. KRASTEL, D. J. PIPER and M. KIENAST (2018). "Surficial sediment failures due to the 1929 Grand Banks Earthquake, St Pierre Slope." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 477: SP477. 425.
URLAUB, M., J. GEERSEN, S. KRASTEL and T. SCHWENK (2018). "Diatom ooze: Crucial for the generation of submarine mega-slides?" Geology 46(4): 331-334.
CUKUR, D., S. KRASTEL, Y. TOMONAGA, H.-U. SCHMINCKE, M. SUMITA, A. F. MEYDAN, M. N. ÇAĞATAY, M. TOKER, S.-P. KIM and G.-S. KONG (2017). "Structural characteristics of the Lake Van Basin, eastern Turkey, from high-resolution seismic reflection profiles and multibeam echosounder data: geologic and tectonic implications." International Journal of Earth Sciences 106(1): 239-253.
FU, L., M. HEIDARZADEH, D. CUKUR, F. L. CHIOCCI, D. RIDENTE, F. GROSS, J. BIALAS and S. KRASTEL (2017). "Tsunamigenic potential of a newly discovered active fault zone in the outer Messina Strait, Southern Italy." Geophysical Research Letters 44(5): 2427-2435.
GUTSCHER, M.-A., H. KOPP, S. KRASTEL, G. BOHRMANN, T. GARLAN, S. ZARAGOSI, I. KLAUCKE, P. WINTERSTELLER, B. LOUBRIEU and Y. LE FAOU (2017). "Active tectonics of the Calabrian subduction revealed by new multi-beam bathymetric data and high-resolution seismic profiles in the Ionian Sea (Central Mediterranean)." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 461: 61-72.
LINDHORST, K., S. KRASTEL, B. WAGNER and A. SCHUERER (2017). "Evidence for sub-lacustrine volcanic activity in Lake Bolsena (central Italy) revealed by high resolution seismic data sets." Journal of volcanology and geothermal research. Mehr