Prof. Dr. Morelia Urlaub
Junior Professor for Marine Geomechanics (Topic 3)
Head of the junior research group PRE-COLLAPSE
RD4: Dynamics of the ocean floor
RU: Marine geodynamics
Office:
Raum: 8C-205
Phone: +49 431 600 2638
E-Mail: murlaub(at)geomar.de
Address:
Wischhofstr. 1-3
24148 Kiel
Research Focus
- Submarine geohazards
- Long-term seafloor deformation monitoring
- Submarine landslides and slope stability
- Fluid flow in continental slopes
- Numerical modelling
Projects
2025 - 2029 SAFAtor: Smart cables And Fibre-optic sensing Amphibious demonstrator; Helmholtz Research Infrastructure (Co-PI of WP2)
2024 - 2027 MAWACAAP: Quantifying the role of Mass Wasting in submarine Canyons on Active and Passive margins; RV SONNE Expedition SO310, BMBF (Co-PI)
2023 - 2025 REET: REconstructing VOLcanic erUptions and Tsunamis Of Krakatau VolcaNo; R/V SONNE Expedition 299/2, BMBF (PI)
2022 - 2024 CASCO - Risk workflow for CAScading and COmpounding hazards in COastal urban areas, Helmholtz Innovation Pool (Co-PI)
2021 - 2026 "Do Volcanoes Collapse Retrogressively?", Helmholtz Young Investigator Group (PI)
2021 - 2026 PRE-COLLAPSE - Slow sliding of volcanic flanks as PREcursor to catastrophic COLLAPSE, ERC Starting Grant (PI)
Vita
since 06/2022 Junior Professor for Marine Geomechanics, CAU Kiel and GEOMAR
since 02/2021 Junior Research Group Leader, GEOMAR
06/2013 - 01/2021 Research Scientist, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
01/2013 - 03/2013 Postdoc, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK
12/2012 Ph.D., University of Southampton, United Kingdom
04/2009 M.Sc. 'Marine Geosciences', Universität Bremen, Germany
07/2006 B.Sc. 'Geosciences', Universität Bremen, Germany
08/2002 - 07/2003 Teacher, The Village School, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Selected media pieces
ARD Wissen: Tsunami-Alarm! Gefahr auch an Europas Küsten
GEOMAR Portrait: YouTube
Planet Wissen: Erdbeben - Wo drohen die nächsten Katastrophen?
National Geographic: Europe's most active volcano is sliding into the sea
New Scientist: The tiny creatures that cause giant 'landslides'
Nature Research Highlights: The slippery cause of huge underwater landslides
Geological Society of America: Tiny fossils, huge slides: Are diatoms the key to Earth's biggest slides?
AGU Landslide Blog: Diatom ooze: the weak link in submarine landslides?
Earth System Knowledge Platform: Hangrutschungen und Tsunami am Ätna
Research cruises
2024/25 RV MARIA S MERIAN MSM132
2024 RV METEOR M198 (Chief scientist)
2023 RV SONNE SO299/2 (Chief scientist)
2022 RV TETHYS II / FOCUS-G2
2021 RV METEOR M178 (Deputy chief scientist)
2020 RV SONNE SO277 (Side user)
2020 RV ALKOR AL532 (Chief scientist)
2018 RV PELAGIA 64PE443 (Side user)
2012 RV METEOR M86/2
2010 RRV JAMES COOK JC44/45
2008 RV POLARSTERN ARKXXIII/3
2007 RV POLARSTERN ANTXXIII/9
2005 RV METEOR M65/2
