Max Engel
Head of Lab. for Geomorphology & Geoecology, Heidelberg Uni | Assoc. Research Fellow at Geological Survey of 🇧🇪 | Corresponding Member, German Archaeol. Inst. (DAI) | #tsunami #geomorphology #Quaternary #geoarchaeology #proclimateaction | views are my own
- Our review on coastal environmental archives of storminess in NW Europe led by Katharina Hess is avilable as a #preprint on @eartharxivbot.bsky.social lakes, machairs, peatland, dunes, tidal flats, lagoons, cliff tops, beach ridges - it's all covered! 🏞️ doi.org/10.31223/X58...
- 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!
- "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
- Reposted by Max EngelGuter Tag um an @hateaid.org zu spenden, habe das auch gerade schnell erledigt. hateaid.org
- OK, that was super-fast typesetting: the #AMK24 special issue "Four decades of the Working Group on Marine and Coastal Geography" is now published as Vol 79(3/4) in #ERDKUNDE 💎 #openaccess doi.org/10.3112/erdk... www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/issue/view/404
- Finally, all papers from the #AMK24 meeting of the German working group of marine and #coastal #geography @uniheidelberg.bsky.social in 2024 accepted for the SI in ERDKUNDE 💎 #openaccess #notforprofit are online. Guest editorial submitted ✅ Watch out! www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/issue/view/e...
- Finally, all papers from the #AMK24 meeting of the German working group of marine and #coastal #geography @uniheidelberg.bsky.social in 2024 accepted for the SI in ERDKUNDE 💎 #openaccess #notforprofit are online. Guest editorial submitted ✅ Watch out! www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/issue/view/e...
- Got 6 of them from the 📘 shop yesterday - 🎄🎁 for everyone in my team 🙌🏽
- Dankbar allen die die Faltung zum Bestseller gemacht haben. faltungderwelt.de
- 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!
- Another ⚽ World Cup to ignore in light of this moral abyss.
- Bullsh*t policies on 🚙💨 exposed. Good read. Physics 🤝🏽 Economics 🤝🏽 Sociology
- Reposted by Max EngelOn unethical editorial practice at STOTEN - Science of the Total Environmental- and how this has ultimately led to delisting at Clarivate. english.elpais.com/science-tech... #academia #academicchatter
- Winter commute 🚲 🚉 🚲 ❄️ 🧤🧣
- 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
- Starting XRF scanning of this summer's #Shetland Islands lake sediment cores @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #earthsciences in 3, 2, 1... 🏁 🩻 📉#avaatech
- The rate at which the Philippines are hit by super-typhoons is breathtaking. At the same time it is 💔 to see how global leaders seem to absolutely not care about the accelerating impacts of climate change as reflected by their policies.
- Reposted by Max EngelBREAKING: The Philippines declares a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves at least 114 dead and hundreds missing in central provinces.
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- Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
- The first cores of the HOTSTORMS project! @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk @stever60.bsky.social + collaborators across 🏴🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪🇩🇪
- Short Article for the BAS IceSheet Newsletter Oct/Nov 2025 … Ancient tsunamis and storms in the Shetlands Islands See link for article: www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...
- Office for today, on an 11-hr train journey from Poland 🇵🇱 back home 🚄👨🏻💻🎧🍜😌
- Quite impressed by #Gdańsk 🇵🇱 not gonna lie...
- Spending 2 days at Gdańsk University 🇵🇱 for the STORMLINK Workshop 🌬️🌊 discussing washover dynamics in all detail. Thanks for having us @damianm.bsky.social !
- 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...
- A community effort by #ISROC network to standardise field data collection in coastal boulder research - funded by #NSF - starring Rónadh Cox @megafloods.bsky.social @tsunamiboulder.bsky.social @shoreplatform.bsky.social 🪨⛏️🛰️📸 #preprint #NHESS @egu.eu @nh.egu.eu doi.org/10.5194/egus...
- Start of the winter term @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #geography undergrads let's go!
- 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
- Reposted by Max EngelMw=7.4, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES (Depth: 62 km), 2025/10/10 01:43:59 UTC - Full details here: geoscope.ipgp.fr/scripts/seismes/fic…
- 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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- Lake coring in the Shetland Islands last week, looking for ancient tsunamis with @drmaex.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
- Indeed, Loch Flugarth #ShetlandIslands is a beauty on the inside AND the outside! @stever60.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
- Second Scottish lake coring adventure of the summer … this time up to the Shetland Islands looking for ancient storms and tsunamis in lake sediments with @drmaex.bsky.social
- How can someone not be amazed by these #Devonian #OldRed #sandstone cliffs on #Hoy #OrkneyIslands ? 😱
- 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...
- 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...
- @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! 🌬️🌊
- @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
- 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...
- Reposted by Max EngelFull video of the tsunami in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, Russia, following the 8.7 earthquake. Wave seems incoming and a few meters at least.
- Gorgeous day of testing light lake coring equipment for upcoming summer fieldwork #uniheidelberg #unihd #geography
- 🇪🇺 stay hydrated! www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
- Umfassende & messerscharfe Analyse von @ulfposhist.bsky.social Freund Fleischhauer warum #eauto #ev "historischer Irrtum" ist - Ergebnis in a nutshell: sie gefallen ihm nicht & klingen wie 1 Nähmaschine - Argumentation: Level #MAGA www.focus.de/politik/deut...
- Thesen u.a.: - Grundlegendes Problem Autoindustrie in #Deutschland: Politiker können #Maserati nicht buchstabieren - wer nicht danach strebt, einen "richtigen" #Porsche oder #Mercedes zu fahren, kann nicht normal sein
- A community effort by #ISROC network to standardise field data collection in coastal boulder research - funded by #NSF - starring Rónadh Cox @megafloods.bsky.social @tsunamiboulder.bsky.social @shoreplatform.bsky.social 🪨⛏️🛰️📸 #preprint #NHESS @egu.eu @nh.egu.eu doi.org/10.5194/egus...
- Reposted by Max EngelSpringer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
- 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
- All things #geoarchaeology presented at the (bi)annual meeting of #akgeoarchäologie and #dig2025 at Tübingen sites.google.com/view/dig2025...
- Reposted by Max Engel3rd International Paleolimnology and Limnogeology Symposium (IAL-IPA Joint Meeting) is held on 6-10 October, in Aix les Bains (France): ialipa-2025.sciencesconf.org IAS Travel Grants by 30 May: www.sedimentologists.org
- The #isroc global database for coastal boulder deposits is up and running doi.org/10.17603/ds2... Read about it in #marinegeology authors.elsevier.com/c/1l6bq5mVe1...
- Reposted by Max EngelRikza Nahar presents Juliane Scheder’s poster at #EGU25… another presentation from the #NORSEAT project @belspo.be
- Reposted by Max EngelDiese und vorige Woche habe ich in den ersten Stunden meiner Grundvorlesungen (1. & 2. Semester) wieder längere Exkurse zum Klima eingefügt. Beeindruckt hat mich ein Student, der danach kam und sagte: „Wir alle wissen, dass wir am A* sind; aber Sie sind der einzige, bei dem man es auch spürt.“ =>...
- 3rd presentation of the #NORSEAT project @belspo.be at #EGU25 @egu.eu by Rikza Nahar et al. #Shetland #Holocene #sealevel #tsunami doi.org/10.5194/egus... Oral | Monday, 28 Apr, 14:45–14:55 (CEST) Room G1
- 2nd presentation of the #NORSEAT project @belspo.be at #EGU25 @egu.eu by Martyna Górska et al. #Shetland #Holocene #sealevel #tsunami doi.org/10.5194/egus... Oral | Monday, 28 Apr, 14:35–14:45 (CEST) Room G1
- First presentation of the #NORSEAT project @belspo.be at #EGU25 @egu.eu by Jule Scheder et al. #Shetland #Holocene #sealevel #tsunami doi.org/10.5194/egus... Wednesday, 30 Apr, 08:30–12:30, Hall X3, X3.79
- @noaa.gov , once a provider of "science, service and stewardship to protect life, property and Earth's natural resources" has sadly fallen to the DOGE goons. Now advocating for breaking international law re: #DeepSeaMining @deepstewardship.bsky.social @deepseaconserve.bsky.social
- Our PhD student Aleksandre Prosperini @sorbonne-universite.fr will present his first #PICO at an international conference @egu.eu @egu-gm.bsky.social on the #geoarchaeology of a satellite site of the #Bat oasis, Oman doi.org/10.5194/egus... Monday, 28 Apr, 16:50–16:52 (CEST), PICO spot 2, PICO2.12
