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Christian Haug Eide

Christian Haug Eide

Position

Professor, Sedimentologist

Affiliation

E-mail
christian.eide@uib.no
Phone number
+47 55583393
Visitor address
Allégaten 41
5007 Bergen
Room: 2G12e - 2147
Postal address
P.O. Box 7803
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

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Christian Haug Eide

Position

Professor, Sedimentologist

Affiliation

Research groups

Research

My research is broad and is based in clastic sedimentology, which is the study of how pieces of rock break down, are transported and deposited. This is important, as these deposits tell the history of the Earth, and because these pieces of rock may act as reservoirs, resources, substrates for installations or geohazards. I focus on how uplands and sedimentary basins are connected in space and time, how sedimentary architecture impacts the flow of fluids and intrusions in sedimentary basins, and how sedimentary processes may act as hazards to society.


Particular interests:

  • Understanding how heterogeneity in sedimentary deposits can be predicted in limited, subsurface datasets.
  • Unraveling how sedimentary landscapes and their deposits evolve and are linked in space and time.
  • Creating and investigating geohazard records.
  • Understanding how volcanic intrusions are influenced by sedimentary host rock.
  • Improving geological surveys for offshore wind sites

For a list of my publications, go here: https://scholar.google.no/citations?hl=en&user=j3LGYEAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

Outreach

I believe academics owe the community around us to show what we do and why we do it. I do this by taking high school students to the field around Bergen several times a year, by presenting about geology and my research to interested members of the public, and by writing about geology in newspapers and popular science magazines about topics such as recent floods in Western Norway, igneous intrusions and climate changes on the planet Mars.

I am also an enthusiastic poster on Instagram profile of the University of Bergen, @unibergen, where I mainly show pictures from field work and field courses.        

 

Teaching

I teach the course GEOV360 - Advanced clastic sedimentology which is a classroom and lab-based course dealing with the physics of sediment transport, sedimentary processes in different sedimentary environments, and description and interpretation of sedimentary rocks in core and outcrop. This course is taught intensively, and looks at fundamental models and cutting-edge developments in clastic sedimentary research. 

I also teach the biannual Integrated sedimentology and tectonics field course in the Spanish Pyrenees, which is a fantastic area to investigate proximal-to-distal relationships in sedimentary systems, and the influence of tectonics on sedimentation. Click here for a few pictures: https://www.uib.no/en/geo/98774/knowledge-and-experiences-pyrenees

Finally, I teach the annual Reservoir Geological Field Course in the Book Cliffs of Utah, one of the best places in the world to study reservoir- to basin-scale sedimentology and reservoir geology. You can find a short article about this course here.

Publications
Conference poster
Academic article
Conference lecture
Master’s thesis
Doctoral thesis (PhD)
Lecture
Academic book chapter
Conference abstract
Academic literature review
Popular science article
Research report

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

My publications are listed above by category. 

Preprints and postprints of papers which are not open access are available from EarthArXiv here: https://eartharxiv.org/discover?q=ch%20eide

Projects

Marine geological ground surveys for offshore wind sites - To ensure cost-effective development of offshore wind sites and efficient selection of anchor solutions, it is important to have detailed knowledge on the marine ground conditions. In this project, we will improve survey methods and interpretation frameworks for offshore wind on formerly glaciated coasts and conduct scientific cruises to the announced Norwegian offshore wind sites. Project co-leader and main PhD supervisor. Funded by Equinor through the Akademia agreement.

Geostatistical Event-based Objectmodel Predicted from Analogue Reservoir Deposits (GEOPARD) - The goal of this project is to develop the next generation of reservoir modelling algorithms through advanced geostatistics and geological rules which are integrated in the modelling approach. With Norwegian Computing Centre and NTNU. Work package leader and postdoc supervisor. Funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

Source-to-Sink study of the Barents Sea (ISBAR) - Understanding the sediment routing systems, mass balance and landscape of the Triassic and early Jurassic of the Barents Sea. Project leader. Funded by the Norwegian Research Council, researcher project.

Fluid modelling, uplift and erosion of the greater Barents Sea (FueBAR) - Understanding uplift, erosion and fluid generation of the Barents Sea through thermochronology, seisimc interpretation and basin modelling. Collaborative project between the University of Bergen and Moscow State University, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the Russian Fund for Basic Research.

S2S-Future: Signal Propagation in source to sink for the Future of Earth Resources and Energies (S2S-Future) - Work-package leader for WP1: Understanding perennial S2S dynamics in response to long-term tectonic and climatic signals in deep time. Funded by the European Research Council, Innovative training network project. 

Revision of the Triassic Stratigraphy in the Barents Sea - Project leader. Funded by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

Intrusions in sedimentary basins - Understanding the controls on architecture of mafic sill complexes in sedimentary basins, how they are imaged in seismic data, and how they influence subsurface geothermal energy and hydrocarbon systems.

Western Norwegian Floods - Using the sedimentary record to understanding Holocene variability of floods in Western Norway, and how these rivers are coupled to their cachments.