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Found it quite hard to find #tsunami 🌊 folks on this app, here is my first attempt. Pls let me know who else should be added!🤜🏽🤛🏼 go.bsky.app/CThzaC9
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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Found it quite hard to find #tsunami 🌊 folks on this app, here is my first attempt. Pls let me know who else should be added!🤜🏽🤛🏼 go.bsky.app/CThzaC9
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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...
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#3 Tsunami 1-3 meters PTWC TSUNAMI THREAT MESSAGE- PANAMA. area M7.6 earthquake PANAMA 10:56PDT Oct 9 Depth 33km: Tsunami possible Tsunami Warning, Watch, and/or Advisory Bulletin issued by Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) to its US and international AOR for confirmed or potentially...
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
The room is packed for the first session of oral talks at #DGGM2026 at Haus Buhl @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #German #Society for #Geomorphology
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
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!
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
Transgressive sediment architecture offshore of the Shetland Islands showing extended spatial distribution of the #Storegga #tsunami deposit @belspo.be led by @rikzanurfaqih.bsky.social @debatistmarc.bsky.social @ppcosta.bsky.social - just dropped! doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
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
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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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
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!
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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Heidelberger Geoinformatiker klassifizieren globale Straßennetze: Straßenzustand als Indikator für sozioökonomischen Fortschritt – Öffentlich zugänglicher Datensatz kann auch für humanitäre Zwecke genutzt werden www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #giscience
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!
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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⚒️ 🧪 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.
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...
Enshittification of the Beautiful Game #FIFA #Worldcup2026 p.dw.com/p/5ETB2
Powerful #earthquake south off #Mindanao #Philippines triggering #tsunami. Stay safe everyone! www.rappler.com/philippines/...
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...
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
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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
Was great to have you here at Heidelberg, @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
💎 Diamond Open Access ftw! 🙌🏽
We are delighted to announce that every research article accepted for publication in Antiquity after 1 June 2026 will be published completely #OpenAccess at no cost to the author or reader! More information here: www.cambridge.org/core/service... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org 🏺 #Archaeology
@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...
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18. April #Energiewende verteidigen - Bring it to the streets, defend #renewables ✊🏽 ⚡ 🔋 ☀️ 🌬️
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
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...)
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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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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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#throwback to chilly mornings and interesting choices of shades in the #Arabian desert #fieldwork #2015 with @dai-weltweit.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @dfg.de
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...
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