Jelmer Oosthoek, PhD candidate

Institute:         Jacobs University
Department:    Earth and Space Science
Phone:            +49-(0)421-2003257
Email:              j.oosthoek@jacobs-university.de
Personal link:  Jacobs University Profile

PhD-project: Developing Strategies For Predicting Locations Of Past Hydrothermal Activity On Mars

It is increasingly recognized that hydrothermal activity has occurred on Mars. Geomorphological and mineralogical evidence show that Mars hosted at some point and for some time a hydrosphere. Massive volcanic provinces and giant rift systems occur which could have harbored hydrothermal systems. Moreover Mars’ surface is saturated with impact craters, varying from a few meters to thousands of kilometers in diameter. Impacts therefore provided another heat source, possibly resulting in impact-induced hydrothermal activity (IIHA) and associated mineralization. ‘Signals’ of hydrothermal activity in impact craters could include the occurrence of crater mounds, crater deltas, possible crater lake deposits, CRISM derived clay signatures inside craters and valley networks around crater rims.
The spatial pattern is investigated to determine if the signals are random, i.e. controlled locally by the impacts themselves, or non-random and controlled by the surrounding pre-impact structure and geology.

Start of doctoral thesis: 1st October 2011

Thesis Committee:

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Vikram Unnithan, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Angelo Pio Rossi, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Further Members: Prof. John Carranza, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Dr. Monica Pondrelli, International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Pescara, Italy

Committee Meetings: 08.08.2012, 28.02.2013, 04.12.2013

Presentations:

  • 2nd Planetary Data Workshop, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. Oral presentation: Oosthoek J.H.P., Rossi A.P., Baumann P., Misev D., Campalani P., "PlanetServer: Towards Online Analysis Of Planetary Data", June 25-29 2012
  • Helmholtz Research School on Earth System Science, Annual Retreat 2012, Bremerhaven, “Deutsches Auswandererhaus“, Poster Presentation: Oosthoek, J et al., “PlanetServer: Towards online analysis of planetary data.“ 30 November, 2012.

Research Stays:

  • Deep Earth and Planetary Science Cluster, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Collaboration with Dr Jessica Flahaut. 22 – 26 July 2013 and 27 – 31 January 2014
  • ITC - Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, collaboration with my PhD committee member Dr. John Carranza, March 28–30 2012.

Publications:

  • Oosthoek, J.P., Rossi, A., Unnithan, V., 2015. Towards Collaborative Exploration and Analysis of Big Data from Mars: A Noachis Terra Case Study, in: Lohmann, G., Meggers, H., Unnithan, V., Wolf-Gladrow, D., Notholt, J., Bracher, A. (Eds.), Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science, Springer Earth System Sciences. Springer International Publishing, pp. 241-251, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13865-7_25

  • Baumann, P., Mazzetti, P., Ungar, J., Barbera, R., Barboni, D., Beccati, A., Bigagli, L., Boldrini, E., Bruno, R., Calanducci, A., Campalani, P., Clements, O., Dumitru, A., Grant, M., Herzig, P., Kakaletris, G., Laxton, J., Koltsida, P., Lipskoch, K., Mahdiraji, A.R., Mantovani, S., Merticariu, V., Messina, A., Misev, D., Natali, S., Nativi, S., Oosthoek, J., Pappalardo, M., Passmore, J., Rossi, A.P., Rundo, F., Sen, M., Sorbera, V., Sullivan, D., Torrisi, M., Trovato, L., Veratelli, M.G., Wagner, S., 2015. Big data analytics for earth sciences: the earth server approach. International Journal of Digital Earth 1-50. doi:10.1080/17538947.2014.1003106
  • Van Ruitenbeek, F.J.A., Bakker, W.H., van der Werff, H.M.A., Zegers, T.E., Oosthoek, J.H.P., Omer, Z.A., Marsh, S.H., van der Meer, F.D., 2014. Mapping the wavelength position of deepest absorption Features to explore mineral diversity in hyperspectral Images. Planetary and Space Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2014.06.009

  • Roda, M., Kleinhans, M.G., Zegers, T.E., Oosthoek, J.H.P. (2014). Catastrophic ice lake collapse in Aram Chaos, Mars, Icarus, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.03.023

  • Bakker, W.H., van Ruitenbeek, F.J.A., van der Werff, H.M.A., Zegers, T., Oosthoek, J.H.P., Marsh, S.H., van der Meer, F.D., Processing OMEGA/Mars Express hyperspectral imagery from radiance-at-sensor to surface reflectance, Planetary and Space Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2013.11.007
  • Oosthoek, J.H.P., Rossi, A.P., Carranza, E.J., Unnithan, V. (2013). Developing Strategies For  Predicting Locations Of  Past Hydrothermal Activity On Mars, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 2565
  • Oosthoek, J.H.P., Flahaut, J., Rossi, A.P., Baumann, P., Misev, D., Campalani, P., Unnithan, V. (2013). Planetserver: Towards Online Analysis Of Integrated Planetary Data, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 2523
  • Oosthoek, J.H.P, Flahaut, J., Rossi, A. P., Baumann, P., Misev, D., Campalani, P., Unnithan, V. (2013). PlanetServer: Innovative Approaches for the Online Analysis of Hyperspectral Satellite Data from Mars, Advances in Space Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2013.07.002