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Max Engel
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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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Meinen die uns? #zarti #noafd
Zartmann performing Meinen die uns with Kasi in Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle
February 11, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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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
February 11, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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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
Schloss Rauischholzhausen with snow Oral presentation of Daniel Wolf, TU Dresden Interior of Schloss Rauischholzhausen
February 7, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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First home game in 2026, first win 🙌🏼⚜️⚽🏟️ #SVDFCN #SVD #D98
Böllenfalltorstadion Fireworks in the away stands, 1. FC Nürnberg
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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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
January 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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"Four decades of the 🇩🇪 Working Group on Marine and Coastal Geography – Interdisciplinary perspectives and practices" 🌊🏖️🌍🚢🌐🦪 #ERDKUNDE #AMK #AMK24 #openaccess

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December 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Bunter #Sandstone #Buntsandstein #Odenwald magic ✨☀️
Bunter sandstone outcropping in a historical hollow way Path in the forest, counterlight View across the valley of Mümling, Bavaria-Hesse border Hoarfrost
December 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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
December 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Winter commute 🚲 🚉 🚲 ❄️ 🧤🧣
Local train stop in frozen winter setting, at the break of dawn
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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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!

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November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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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
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Office for today, on an 11-hr train journey from Poland 🇵🇱 back home 🚄👨🏻‍💻🎧🍜😌
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Quite impressed by #Gdańsk 🇵🇱 not gonna lie...
October 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Spending 2 days at Gdańsk University 🇵🇱 for the STORMLINK Workshop 🌬️🌊 discussing washover dynamics in all detail. Thanks for having us @damianm.bsky.social !
Sign saying STORMLINK WORKSHOP Building of the Geography department of Gdańsk University Dinner selfie of workshop participants Worldclass pastries game during the workshop
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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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

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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.
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Start of the winter term @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #geography undergrads let's go!
October 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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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 Title slide of Katharina's presentation Take-away coffee cup with IAL-IPA conference logo
October 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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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 🤞🏽
Gravel layer in humic coastal dune.
September 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Indeed, Loch Flugarth #ShetlandIslands is a beauty on the inside AND the outside! @stever60.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
Sand Voe bay connected to Loch Flugarth on northern Mainland in the Shetland Islands; photograph with a rainbow Russian chamber corer with laminated lake deposits from Loch Flugarth
September 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Spot the error 🤔 #fieldwork #ShetlandIslands #russiancorer #lakesediments #eijkelkamp
Stainless steel Russian chamber corer,torn and twisted
September 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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How can someone not be amazed by these #Devonian #OldRed #sandstone cliffs on #Hoy #OrkneyIslands ? 😱
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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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
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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

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September 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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@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
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@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 Jemnitz floodgate Heiligendamm pier
August 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM