© Universität Bonn / Bernadett Yehdou
Affiliations
- Department of Geology
- Research group: Sedimentology
Research topics
- Natural hazards (e.g. tsunamis, storm surges)
- Coastal processes
- Eventstratigraphy (reconstruction of events)
- Post-event surveys in the wake of events
- Facies analyses (reconstruction of depositional settings)
- Processes of erosion, transport and deposition
My research interests include short-term and long-term geological processes, most of all the event-stratigraphy of natural hazards, such as tsunamis, storm surges and mass wasting events, both in terrestrial and marine environments and on different time scales (recent, historical, fossil). I am interested in sediment-climate interactions, as well as the effects of sea level rise, and the preservation potential of sediments in different depositional settings. Furthermore, I aim to reconstruct ancient depositional environments and climate conditions.
Selected publications
- Spiske, M., Pilarczyk, J., Mitchell, S., Halley, R.E., Otai, T., 2022: Coastal erosion and sediment reworking caused by Hurricane Irma – implications for storm impact on low-lying tropical islands. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 47, 891–907.
- Spiske, M., 2020: The sedimentology and geometry of fine-grained tsunami deposits in onshore environments. In: Engel, M., Pilarczyk, J., May, S.M., Brill, D., Garrett, E. Eds., Geological Records of Tsunamis and Other Extreme Waves. Elsevier, 213–238.
- Spiske, M., Tang, H., Bahlburg, H., 2020: Post-depositional alteration of onshore tsunami deposits – Implications for the reconstruction of past events. Earth-Science Reviews, 202, 103068.
- Atwater, B.F., ten Brink, U.S., Cescon, A.L., Feuillet, N., Fuentes, Z., Halley, R.B., Nuñez, C., Reinhardt, E.G., Roger, J.H., Sawai, Y., Spiske, M., Tuttle, M.P., Wei, Y., Weil-Accardo, J., 2017: Extreme waves in the British Virgin Islands during the last centuries before 1500 CE. Geosphere, 13, 301–368.
- Spiske, M., Bahlburg, H., Weiss, R., 2014: Pliocene mass failure deposits mistaken as submarine tsunami backwash sediments – an example from Hornitos, Northern Chile. Sedimentary Geology, 305, 69–82.
- Spiske, M., Piepenbreier, J., Benavente, C., Kunz, A., Bahlburg, H., Steffahn, J., 2013: Historical tsunami deposits in Peru: Sedimentology, inverse modeling and optically stimulated luminescence dating. Quaternary International, 305, 31–44.
- Spiske, M. and Jaffe, B., 2009: Sedimentology and hydrodynamic implications of a coarse grained hurricane sequence in a carbonate reef setting. Geology, 37, 839–842.
complete list of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jtJoof8AAAAJ&hl=de
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