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) | #tsunami #geomorphology #Quaternary #geoarchaeology #proclimateaction | views are my own
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Max Engel
@drmaex.bsky.social
· Nov 15
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
go.bsky.app/CThzaC9
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
dled2025.geog.uni-heidelberg.de
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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
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
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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.
Two dead and more than a million displaced after super typhoon Fung-wong slams the Philippines
Two dead and more than a million displaced after super typhoon Fung-wong slams the Philippines
More than 1.4 million people were evacuated across the country as the storm triggered flash flooding, landslides and gale-force winds
Super typhoon Fung-wong has blown through the Philippines, leaving at least two dead, 1.4 million people evacuated and widespread damage in its wake.
More than 1.4 million people were evacuated across the country as the storm triggered flash flooding, storm surges, landslides and gale-force winds, Philippine authorities said on Monday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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 Engel
BREAKING: The Philippines declares a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves at least 114 dead and hundreds missing in central provinces.
Philippines declares a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 114 people dead
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has declared a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 114 people dead and hundreds missing in central provinces.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
BREAKING: 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...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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...
Ancient tsunamis and storms in the Shetlands Islands
See link for article: www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The first cores of the HOTSTORMS project! @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk @stever60.bsky.social + collaborators across 🏴🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪🇩🇪
Office for today, on an 11-hr train journey from Poland 🇵🇱 back home 🚄👨🏻💻🎧🍜😌
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Office for today, on an 11-hr train journey from Poland 🇵🇱 back home 🚄👨🏻💻🎧🍜😌
Spending 2 days at Gdańsk University 🇵🇱 for the STORMLINK Workshop 🌬️🌊 discussing washover dynamics in all detail. Thanks for having us @damianm.bsky.social !
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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...
doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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...
doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
Start of the winter term @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #geography undergrads let's go!
October 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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
October 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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 Engel
Mw=7.4, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES (Depth: 62 km), 2025/10/10 01:43:59 UTC - Full details here: http://geoscope.ipgp.fr/scripts/seismes/fiche.php?seis=us6000rfwz
October 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Mw=7.4, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES (Depth: 62 km), 2025/10/10 01:43:59 UTC - Full details here: http://geoscope.ipgp.fr/scripts/seismes/fiche.php?seis=us6000rfwz
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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
September 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Indeed, Loch Flugarth #ShetlandIslands is a beauty on the inside AND the outside! @stever60.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Indeed, Loch Flugarth #ShetlandIslands is a beauty on the inside AND the outside! @stever60.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
How can someone not be amazed by these #Devonian #OldRed #sandstone cliffs on #Hoy #OrkneyIslands ? 😱
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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...
September 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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...
doi.org/10.3112/erdk...
September 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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...
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! 🌬️🌊
August 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
@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
August 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
@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...
doi.org/10.3112/erdk...
August 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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...
doi.org/10.3112/erdk...
Reposted by Max Engel
Full video of the tsunami in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, Russia, following the 8.7 earthquake. Wave seems incoming and a few meters at least.
July 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Full 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
July 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Gorgeous day of testing light lake coring equipment for upcoming summer fieldwork #uniheidelberg #unihd #geography