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Meta-analysis of palaeotempestological records from NW Europe led by Katharina Hess @uniheidelberg.bsky.social out now in #ProgPhysGeo - we analyse archive types, proxies, dating methods and time frames to end up with recommendations for future studies 🌬️ 🌊 🏖️🪨 - tbc doi.org/10.1177/0309...

Map of NW Europe showing locations of palaeotempestological records

Examples of signatures of storms in coastal sedimentary archives

Sankey diagram showing combinations of sedimentary proxies studied in different palaeotempestological archives across NW Europe

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The calm before the storm 🌪️ - getting ready for the poster session today at Haus Buhl #DGGM2026 #Heidelberg #German Society for #Geomorphology

Poster room at the annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology

View from the poster room at the annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology towards Heidelberg castle

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gilles Rixhon of @unistra.fr presenting on #Quaternary uplift of thr Rhenish-Ardennes Massif at the #DGGM2026 meeting #German Society for #Geomorphology @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

Gilles Rixhon presenting his research in front of an audience

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The room is packed for the first session of oral talks at #DGGM2026 at Haus Buhl @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #German #Society for #Geomorphology

Albert Cano giving an oral presentation on surface grain size inferred from SAR data at DGGM2026

DGGM2026 conference venue Haus Buhl overlooked by the Heidelberg castle

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

t-1 for #DGGM2026 annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology @uniheidelberg.bsky.social - we kick off tomorrow with a plenary session on future directions in #geomorphology www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/en/dggm2026

Sticker advertising the annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology 2026 starting tomorrow, 07 October

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our PhD student Katharina Hess @uniheidelberg.bsky.social presenting her work on #storm variability on the Shetland Islands @deuqua.bsky.social meeting #German #Quaternary union - funded by @dfg.de in collaboration with @stever60.bsky.social

Katharina Hess with the title slide of her presentation in front of the audience at the bi-annual DEUQUA meeting

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wir haben eine Stelle @uniheidelberg.bsky.social im @dfg.de Projekt TARGYT zu besetzen #PhysischeGeographie #Geoarchäologie: Wiss MA (Doktorand*in, m/w/d) (TV-L 13, 75%) - 3 Jahre Befristung Beginn: 01.11.2026 Bewerbungsfrist: 04.10.2026 Alle Details: heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/f/f5a6e0b863...

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Never not amazed by the #granite #Odenwald 🪨☀️💆🏻‍♂️

View of Niedernhausen-Lichtenberg, Odenwald, Germany

View of Lichtenberg castle, Odenwald, Germany

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New preprint @gchron.bsky.social @egu.eu @nh.egu.eu on #Luminescence dating of offshore #tsunami deposits from the #Shetland Islands led by Andi Peffeköver #NORSEAT project funded by @belspo.be @debatistmarc.bsky.social @ppcosta.bsky.social -- good times on the RV Belgica! doi.org/10.5194/egus...

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

While the 🇩🇪 federal govt tries to slow down the growth of #renewables, I'm lucky to live in a town where political decisions are based on scientific consensus and #energy #transition is actively supported at grassroot level #darmstadt 🙌🏽 ☀️⚡🔋

Badge acknowledging financial support of a household PV system by the city council of Darmstadt

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Enjoyed the waves 🌊 and granite landscape 🪨 of #Brittany #Bretagne🇫🇷 as always, but the #heat, #drought #secheresse & total lack of rain in light of #climatechange are genuinely worrying

2 surfboards in bags leaning against a traditional house made of granite stones in Brittany/France

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We're hiring at pre-doc level @uniheidelberg.bsky.social to explore environmental changes in the Hajar Mountains #Oman across Palaeolithic-Neolithic timescales @dfg.de #gacr #weave #geoarchaeology Start: Oct/Nov Duration: 3 years Details: shorturl.at/ijEa7 Interested? DM/Email! Thx for sharing!

Karst landscape of the Sint Plateau, Oman, with flat polje in the background

A person digging into the sediment infill of a polje

Steep wadi gorge in the Hajar Mountains with boulder sized deposit covering the wadi floor

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Finall call to register for the annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology #DGGM #DGGM2026 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social -- extended deadline is tomorrow, 15 July! www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/en/dggm2026 Looking forward to welcome #geomorph folks in Heidelberg!

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

First full manuscript of the #NORSEAT project funded by @belspo.be on stratigraphies and sedimentary environments offshore of the #Shetland Islands - led by Rikza Nahar #UGent #preprint #openaccess @ppcosta.bsky.social @tsuenamidawson.bsky.social @debatistmarc.bsky.social doi.org/10.31223/X53...

Map of the study areas in the manuscript: Yell Sound, Colgrave Sound/Basta Voe and Dury Voe.

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In October 2026 we're going to host the annual meeting of the German Society for #Geomorphology #DGGM @uniheidelberg.bsky.social - Submissions are welcome, deadline 30 June 2026 - Detailed information ➡️ www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/en/dggm2026

Invitation to the 2026 annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology at Heidelberg, 7-10 Oct

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The #NORSEAT project on #offshore #tsunami deposits and Holocene sea-leve change in the #Shetland Islands is in its final year and reports are being drafted. During the wait I'll drop here the first project report published by the #Heidelberg Geographical Society shorturl.at/Wobxn

People cutting a sediment core on the RV Belgica

Sunset on one of the fjords of the Shetland Islands

Vibracorer frame used during the cruise of RV Belgica, kindly provided by VLIZ

View of an abandoned building on the Shetland Islands from the research vessel

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

When your colleague is sick in bed and you jump in to give their presentation...

Meme template of man in front of a wall plastered with paper notes

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

@uniheidelberg.bsky.social Master student Nel's first manuscript on #EarthArXiv #preprint - Flooding pattern and refined timing of the Late #Holocene tsunami on the #Shetland Islands based on #OSL and high-res grain size and heavy mineral data, funded by @belspo.be doi.org/10.31223/X55...

Overview of the study site at Dury Voe, Shetland Islands, and photographs of thin tsunami deposit bracketed by peat

Diagrams shiwing grain size data of 5 cm-thick tsunami deposit

Modelled age data from the Late Holocene tsunami deposit on Shetland pointing to an age of the event around 1400 cal BP

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The last breath of winter last week got us some fabulous hikes in knee-deep snow ❄️🤍🏔️ #Alps #Garmisch #Höllental

View over the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Snow-covered trail following the Hammersbach in Höllental, German Alps

Cottage of Höllentalangerhütte built into the vertical wall at the entrace of the canyon of Höllentalklamm

Sun peeking through the clouds at snow-covered trial higher up the slope of Höllental, German Alps

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Happy to have Aleksandre Prosperini #PhDstudent @sorbonne-universite.fr back in our lab through a @daadworldwide.bsky.social scholarship - last week exploring the relic periglacial block field of Felsenmeer, a local #geomorph gem 💎 #Odenwald 🇩🇪 (yeh, it gets busy on a weekend...)

Selfie of Aleksandre and Max in front of the blockfield of Felsenmeer, Odenwald, Germany, looking uphill

Blockfield of Felsenmeer looking downhill into the Lautertal

View across the northwestern margin of the Odenwald looking into the Upper Rhine Graben, with the skyscrapers of Frankfurt in the background

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This study on historical clay extraction in the floodplain the late-glacial palaeo-channel of the Neckar river evolved from several undergrad field courses and is our first collaboration with the #Hessen State Archive @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @henselowsky.bsky.social doi.org/10.5194/egqs...

Figure of floodplain startigraphy of the late-glacial Neckar palaeochannel with multiproxy data

Map of the study area in the northern Upper Rhine Graben, southwestern Germany

Title page of the article: Henselowsky, F., Kadereit, A., Herzog, M., Tuczek, B., Thiemeyer, H., Bubenzer, O., and Engel, M.: Historical clay extraction from paleo-channel deposits of the late-glacial Bergstraßenneckar in the Upper Rhine Graben, southwestern Germany, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 75, 33–47, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-75-33-2026, 2026.

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Our PhD student Katharina 👩🏼‍🔬 starring in @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #tdlab' s video 📽️ about transformative environmental research in Physical Geography which is going to be used in teaching in the #TrafU framework. Great fun to shoot this in the lab! ⚗️🧪🔬🐚 @nicoleaeschbach.bsky.social

Katharina Hess being interviewed about her research

A gastropod shell picked from a sediment core with a pinch

Two persons in front of a computer screen discussing data on grain-size distributions

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Sand and dust in all colours and shapes at the annual meeting of the German working group on Desert Margin Research in snow-covered #Hessen Schloss Rauischholzhausen

Oral presentation of Daniel Wolf, TU Dresden

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

First home game in 2026, first win 🙌🏼⚜️⚽🏟️ #SVDFCN #SVD #D98

Fireworks in the away stands, 1. FC Nürnberg

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

First bumper stickers arrived - announcing the 2026 annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology #DGGM at Heidelberg, 07-10 Oct #DGGM2026 more info tba!

Unused bumper stickers on marble surface advertising the annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology 2026 in Heidelberg

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

"Four decades of the 🇩🇪 Working Group on Marine and Coastal Geography – Interdisciplinary perspectives and practices" 🌊🏖️🌍🚢🌐🦪 #ERDKUNDE #AMK #AMK24 #openaccess doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2025.03.01

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I met Martin Koehler #phdstudent #UQ #Australia at the 2024 #ISROC field school St. Croix #USVI. This week he visited @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and presented his work on coastal boulder deposits in the South Pacific #Tonga. Good opportunity for a short tour of the (geo)highlights of #Heidelberg!

Martin Koehler (University of Queensland) presenting his PhD work to the geomorphology group at the Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University

Autumnal view across the Neckar river towards the Old Town, Alte Brücke and castle of Heidelberg, Germany.

Outcrop of stratigraphic boundary of Permian Heidelberg granite and arkose of the Rotliegend, right at Heidelberg castle

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Winter commute 🚲 🚉 🚲 ❄️ 🧤🧣

Local train stop in frozen winter setting, at the break of dawn

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Paid the German conference on Luminescence and Electron-Spin Resonance Dating #DLED2025 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social a visit today. Gorgeous location right below the castle at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and definitely the best conference gadget! dled2025.geog.uni-heidelberg.de

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Starting XRF scanning of this summer's #Shetland Islands lake sediment cores @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #earthsciences in 3, 2, 1... 🏁 🩻 📉#avaatech

Close-up of lake sediment core with ruler in Aavatech XRF scanner

lake sediment core with ruler in Aavatech XRF scanner

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Office for today, on an 11-hr train journey from Poland 🇵🇱 back home 🚄👨🏻‍💻🎧🍜😌

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Quite impressed by #Gdańsk 🇵🇱 not gonna lie...

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Spending 2 days at Gdańsk University 🇵🇱 for the STORMLINK Workshop 🌬️🌊 discussing washover dynamics in all detail. Thanks for having us @damianm.bsky.social !

Building of the Geography department of Gdańsk University

Worldclass pastries game during the workshop

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The final paper on the standardisation of field data collection in CBD 🌊🪨 research now out in #NHESS @nh.egu.eu @egu.eu Thanks to Rónadh Cox taking the lead and everyone else involved! An ISROC.network initiative funded by #NSF doi.org/10.5194/nhes...

Title page of the newly published article "Understanding extreme-wave hazards on high-energy coasts requires a standardised approach to field data collection: analysis and recommendations"

Various examples of coastal boulder deposits.

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Today we concluded the @ialipa2025.bsky.social conference on #palaeolimnology and #limnogeology at Aix-les-Bains🇨🇵 with the session on #coastal lakes and #lagoons - Katharina Hess @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #geography presenting her work on palaeo-storms and #tsunamis in the #Shetland Islands

3rd IAL-IPA conference, session on coastal lakes and lagoons, Katharina Hess is giving her oral presentation in a conference room

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

After a solid week of lake coring and sampling for #storm and #tsunami deposits on the #Shetland Islands, we found this yet undocumented gem 💎 on northern Mainland - a distinct gravel layer inside the coastal dunes. Hoping for good OSL results 🤞🏽

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

How can someone not be amazed by these #Devonian #OldRed #sandstone cliffs on #Hoy #OrkneyIslands ? 😱

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Short stop at gorgeous #Forsinard Flows in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highlands, on our way to the #Shetland Islands in search of further palaeo-storm records and #tsunami deposits. Stay tuned...

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Geomorphic impact and coastal recovery after Supertyphoon Haiyan in 2013 just out in #Erdkunde #DiamondOpenAccess - Part of the upcoming Special Issue of our #AMK2024 meeting last year @uniheidelberg.bsky.social doi.org/10.3112/erdk...

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

@uniheidelberg.bsky.social #geography field course on palaeo-storm surges of the #BalticSea is in the books: Lot's of ERT mapping of washover fans, peat cores and indeed some thin washover sand layers! 🌬️🌊

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

@uniheidelberg.bsky.social #geography field course on palaeostorm surges of the #BalticSea Day 1: field trip led by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state dept. of coastal protection demonstrating how #Quaternary geology and technical measures are combined to protect the coast #Heiligendamm #Nienhagen

Holocene cliff in Weichselian moraine providing a source for longshore sediment transport

Students at the entrance of Jemnitz floodgate, with Heiligendamm in the background

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

New paper out on the survey of coastal boulders shifted during #Hurricane Matthew (2016) in #Guantanamo #Cuba. It was a lovely experience, thanks to all collaborators! We publish #notforprofit #diamondopenaccess #openaccess #Erdkunde doi.org/10.3112/erdk...

Person sitting on a limestone boulder at the coast of Guantánamo, Cuba

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Gorgeous day of testing light lake coring equipment for upcoming summer fieldwork #uniheidelberg #unihd #geography

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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

PhD student Aleksandre Prosperini telling the story of the Rakhat al-Madrh sedimentary archive near Bat oasis #oman at the #geoarchaeology meeting @unituebingen.bsky.social this week #dig2025

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