Dr. Julius Jara

1998-2005                  BSc student, University Concepcion, Chile

2006-2008                  MSc student, University Concepcion, Chile

2009-2010                  Exploration geologist, Congo.

2011-2016                  PhD student, University Potsdam

2017 – 2018               Postdoc, Research assistant, University Potsdam

2018 – present         Postdoc, DFG "own position", University of Potsdam. Project JA 2860/1-1: “LIFE: Linking lake level changes, surface deformation and seismogenesis in the Dead Sea”

Jara-Muñoz J, Melnick D. Unraveling sea-level variations and tectonic uplift in wave-built marine terraces, Santa María Island, Chile. Quaternary Research 2015, 83(1): 216-228.

Jara-Muñoz J, Melnick D, Brill D, Strecker MR. Segmentation of the 2010 Maule Chile earthquake rupture from a joint analysis of uplifted marine terraces and seismic-cycle deformation patterns. Quaternary Science Reviews 2015, 113: 171-192.

Bernhardt A, Melnick D, Jara-Muñoz J, Argandoña B, González J, Strecker MR. Controls on submarine canyon activity during sea-level highstands: The Biobio canyon system offshore Chile. Geosphere 2015, 11(4): 1226-1255.

Jara-Muñoz J, Melnick D, Strecker MR. TerraceM: A MATLAB(R) tool to analyze marine and lacustrine terraces using high-resolution topography. Geosphere 2016, 12(1): 176-195.

Jara-Muñoz J, Melnick D, Zambrano P, Rietbrock A, Gonzáles J, Argandoña B, Strecker MR. Quantifying offshore forearc deformation and splay-fault slip using drowned Pleistocene shorelines, Arauco Bay, Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth 2017, 122, 4529-4558.

Pedoja, K., Jara-Muñoz, J., De Gelder, G., Robertson, J., Meschis, M., Fernández-Blanco, D., Nexer, M., Poprawski, Y., Dugué, O., and Delcaillau, B. Neogene-Quaternary slow coastal uplift of Western Europe through the perspective of sequences of strandlines from the Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy, France). Geomorphology 2018, 303, 338-356.

Melnick, D., Li, S., Moreno, M., Cisternas, M., Jara-Muñoz, J., Wesson, R., Nelson, A., Báez, J. C., and Deng, Z. Back to full interseismic plate locking decades after the giant 1960 Chile earthquake: Nature communications 2018, 9(1), 3527.

Melnick, D., Hillemann, C., Jara-Muñoz, J., Garrett, E., Cortés‐Aranda, J., Molina, D., Strecker, M. R. Hidden Holocene slip along the coastal El Yolki fault in Central Chile and its possible link with megathrust earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth 2019, 124, 7280-7302.

de Gelder, G., Fernández-Blanco, D., Melnick, D., Duclaux, G., Bell, R. E., Jara-Muñoz, J., Armijo, R., and Lacassin, R. J. S. r. Lithospheric flexure and rheology determined by climate cycle markers in the Corinth Rift. Scientific reports 2019, 9(1), 4260.

Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Pedoja, K., & Strecker, M. R. TerraceM-2: A Matlab® interface for mapping and modelling marine and lacustrine terraces. Frontiers in Earth Science 2019, 7, 255.

Bilbao-Lasa, P., Jara-Muñoz, J., Pedoja, K., Álvarez, I., Aranburu, A., Iriarte, E., & Galparsoro, I. (2020). Submerged Marine Terraces Identification and an Approach for Numerical Modeling the Sequence Formation in the Bay of Biscay (Northeastern Iberian Peninsula). Frontiers in Earth Science, 8.

de Gelder, G., Jara-Munoz, J., Melnick, D., Fernández-Blanco, D., Rouby, H., Pedoja, K., ... & Lacassin, R. (2020). How do sea-level curves influence modeled marine terrace sequences?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 229, 106132.

Garrett, E., Melnick, D., Dura, T., Cisternas, M., Ely, L. L., Wesson, R. L., ... & Whitehouse, P. L. (2020). Holocene relative sea-level change along the tectonically active Chilean coast. Quaternary Science Reviews, 236, 106281.

Racano, S., Jara‐Muñoz, J., Cosentino, D., & Melnick, D. (2020). Variable Quaternary uplift along the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau inferred from modeling marine terrace sequences. Tectonics, 39(12), e2019TC005921.

Freisleben, R., Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Martínez, J. M., and Strecker, M. R. Marine terraces of the last interglacial period along the Pacific coast of South America (1° N–40° S), Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-385, in review, 2020.