Max Engel

@drmaex

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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Max Engel@drmaex· 2d

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 🙌🏽 ☀️⚡🔋

Badge acknowledging financial support of a household PV system by the city council of Darmstadt

Max Engel@drmaex· 5d

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

2 surfboards in bags leaning against a traditional house made of granite stones in Brittany/France

Max Engel@drmaex· 21d

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!

Karst landscape of the Sint Plateau, Oman, with flat polje in the background

A person digging into the sediment infill of a polje

Steep wadi gorge in the Hajar Mountains with boulder sized deposit covering the wadi floor

Max Engel@drmaex· 28d

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!

Max Engel@drmaex· May 27

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...

Map of the study areas in the manuscript: Yell Sound, Colgrave Sound/Basta Voe and Dury Voe.

Max Engel@drmaex· May 27

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

Invitation to the 2026 annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology at Heidelberg, 7-10 Oct

Max Engel@drmaex· May 25

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

People cutting a sediment core on the RV Belgica

Sunset on one of the fjords of the Shetland Islands

Vibracorer frame used during the cruise of RV Belgica, kindly provided by VLIZ

View of an abandoned building on the Shetland Islands from the research vessel

Max Engel@drmaex· May 7

When your colleague is sick in bed and you jump in to give their presentation...

Meme template of man in front of a wall plastered with paper notes

Max Engel@drmaex· Apr 22

@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...

Overview of the study site at Dury Voe, Shetland Islands, and photographs of thin tsunami deposit bracketed by peat

Diagrams shiwing grain size data of 5 cm-thick tsunami deposit

Modelled age data from the Late Holocene tsunami deposit on Shetland pointing to an age of the event around 1400 cal BP

Max Engel@drmaex· Apr 10

The last breath of winter last week got us some fabulous hikes in knee-deep snow ❄️🤍🏔️ #Alps #Garmisch #Höllental

View over the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Snow-covered trail following the Hammersbach in Höllental, German Alps

Cottage of Höllentalangerhütte built into the vertical wall at the entrace of the canyon of Höllentalklamm

Sun peeking through the clouds at snow-covered trial higher up the slope of Höllental, German Alps

Max Engel@drmaex· Apr 3

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...)

Selfie of Aleksandre and Max in front of the blockfield of Felsenmeer, Odenwald, Germany, looking uphill

Blockfield of Felsenmeer looking downhill into the Lautertal

View across the northwestern margin of the Odenwald looking into the Upper Rhine Graben, with the skyscrapers of Frankfurt in the background

Max Engel@drmaex· Feb 20

#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

Person sitting on the ground in the Arabian desert taking notes

Max Engel@drmaex· Feb 16

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...

Figure of floodplain startigraphy of the late-glacial Neckar palaeochannel with multiproxy data

Map of the study area in the northern Upper Rhine Graben, southwestern Germany

Title page of the article: Henselowsky, F., Kadereit, A., Herzog, M., Tuczek, B., Thiemeyer, H., Bubenzer, O., and Engel, M.: Historical clay extraction from paleo-channel deposits of the late-glacial Bergstraßenneckar in the Upper Rhine Graben, southwestern Germany, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 75, 33–47, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-75-33-2026, 2026.

Max Engel@drmaex· Feb 11

Meinen die uns? #zarti #noafd

Zartmann performing Meinen die uns with Kasi in Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle

Max Engel@drmaex· Feb 11

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

Max Engel@drmaex· Feb 7

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

Oral presentation of Daniel Wolf, TU Dresden

Max Engel@drmaex· Jan 23

First home game in 2026, first win 🙌🏼⚜️⚽🏟️ #SVDFCN #SVD #D98

Fireworks in the away stands, 1. FC Nürnberg

Max Engel@drmaex· Jan 8

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

Max Engel@drmaex· Dec 30

"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

Max Engel@drmaex· Dec 28

Bunter #Sandstone #Buntsandstein #Odenwald magic ✨☀️

Bunter sandstone outcropping in a historical hollow way

View across the valley of Mümling, Bavaria-Hesse border

Max Engel@drmaex· Dec 19

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

Max Engel@drmaex· Nov 27

Winter commute 🚲 🚉 🚲 ❄️ 🧤🧣

Local train stop in frozen winter setting, at the break of dawn

Max Engel@drmaex· Nov 15

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

Max Engel@drmaex· Nov 13

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

Max Engel@drmaex· Nov 1

Office for today, on an 11-hr train journey from Poland 🇵🇱 back home 🚄👨🏻‍💻🎧🍜😌

Max Engel@drmaex· Oct 31

Quite impressed by #Gdańsk 🇵🇱 not gonna lie...

Max Engel@drmaex· Oct 31

Spending 2 days at Gdańsk University 🇵🇱 for the STORMLINK Workshop 🌬️🌊 discussing washover dynamics in all detail. Thanks for having us @damianm.bsky.social !

Building of the Geography department of Gdańsk University

Worldclass pastries game during the workshop

Max Engel@drmaex· Oct 29

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...

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.

Max Engel@drmaex· Oct 14

Start of the winter term @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #geography undergrads let's go!

Max Engel@drmaex· Oct 10

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