Max Engel

Max Engel

@drmaex.bsky.social

Head of Lab. for Geomorphology & Geoecology, Heidelberg Uni | Assoc. Research Fellow at Geological Survey of 🇧🇪 | Corresponding Member, German Archaeol. Inst. (DAI) | Editorial board Geomorphica, Geologica Belgica | views are my own #proclimateaction

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Starting to get long forecasts this weekend for #stormsurge coming close to spring tides. This is the storm after #StormAusten . Too early yet for a deterministic model but it will be one to keep an eye on.

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

Addendum: Congrats to Katharina for making 🌊🌊 and winning the Best Presentation Award of this year's @deuqua.bsky.social meeting 🥂 #German #Quaternary union, in her first contribution to the @dfg.de #HOTSTORMS project!

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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

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Sommer 2026: 16.000 Hitzetote 🥵 alleine in 🇩🇪. Dürre. Brände. 🤯 Die Bundesregierung subventioniert jetzt mit 2.500.000.000 € von unseren Steuergeldern die Ursache der Hitze: fossile Brennstoffe. Unfassbar. 🤯🤯🤯 Das meiste Geld landet dann wieder bei den Ölkonzernen, der Lobby gegen Klimaschutz.

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Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.

The position is now officially announced on the @uniheidelberg.bsky.social website. Feel free to get in touch about the project and position! shorturl.at/YM83V

shorturl.atStellenausschreibungen an der Universität HeidelbergInfosystem der ZUV
Max Engel@drmaex.bsky.social

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!

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 🙌🏽 ☀️⚡🔋

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

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⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.

earthquakeinsights.substack.comCatastrophic M7.5 earthquake strikes northern VenezuelaSevere damage; collapsed buildings; significant fatalities possible

OK, so #FIFA tells us that symbols commemorating national independence and liberation from colonial oppression and exploitation is "too political" and we should maintain a neutral perspective on these types of benchmark historical events. Got it. #worldcup2026 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

theguardian.comHaiti forced to change World Cup jerseys after Fifa rejects ‘political’ elementsThe manufacturer of the team’s World Cup jerseys said the design was ‘not intended as a political statement’

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It's time to introduce six new associate editors at Geomorphica, who will help us manage the growing number of submissions. First up is Max Engel! #MeetMeMonday

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

Anatomy of a massive landslide #tsunami facilitated by #climatechange in the Subarctic

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social

🚨New paper about the second largest tsunami ever recorded, just published in @science.org A short 🧪⚒️🌊 thread #EGU26 @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Was great to have you here at Heidelberg, @stever60.bsky.social !!!

Stephen Roberts@stever60.bsky.social

Trip to beautiful Heidelberg to discuss our new palaeotsunami Shetland Islands project to look at cores/data, train up the Rhine to Bonn for a DFG meeting, back via Koln/Brussels @bas.ac.uk @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @drmaex.bsky.social #collaboration #tsunami #shetland #sedimentology

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Trotz fataler Abhängigkeit von Erdöl und Erdgas plant die Regierung Angriffe auf #Energiewende und #erneuerbare Energien. Das gefährdet Wohlstand und Demokratie. , 12 Uhr: Stoppschild in #Hamburg #Berlin #München #Köln.

18. April #Energiewende verteidigen - Bring it to the streets, defend #renewables ✊🏽 ⚡ 🔋 ☀️ 🌬️

Christoph Bautz@christophbautz.bsky.social

Am Samstag in zwei Wochen, den 18.4. sind wir alle gefragt, gegen Katherina Reiche und ihren Frontalangriff auf die Energiewende auf die Straße zu gehen - in Berlin, Hamburg, Köln und München. Seid dabei und bringt Freund*innen und Bekannte zu den Demos mit! erneuerbare-energien-verteidigen.de

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social

Unsere neue Studie: die Erderwärmung hat sich ab 2015 erheblich beschleunigt. Die rote Kurve zeigt 10-Jahres-Trends, um je 1 Jahr versetzt; der letzte ist 2015-2024. Die blaue Kurve zeigt den Trend vor und nach dem objektiv bestimmten change point. 👉 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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March 11 marks the 15th anniversary of the 3rd-largest seismic event ever recorded, the magnitude 9.1 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Recovery from this devastating event is still ongoing. Research into ways to make our society more resilient to nature's unpredictability continues.

We still have a long way to go for climate education 😵...

"Zwischen der Erde und der Sonne ist die Atmosphäre. Und wenn die immer dünner wird, dann wird die Sonne immer heißer. Und der Grund dafür sind Abgase, CO₂ und und und" - Manuel Hagel, CDU Spitzenkandidat für die Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg zu Schülern, ARD Mittagsmagazin vom 2. März 2026

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Das muss man erstmal schaffen, ein Gesetzesvorhaben zu präsentieren, das so durchsichtig ausschließlich fossilen Lobbyinteressen dient, allen anderen aber schadet, dass man diese Phalanx aus Kritik inspiriert. Chapaeau, Schwarz-Rot! Hier eine kleine Auswahl.

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