Inhaltsbereich
Dr. Markus J. Schwab
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 5.2, Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1388
Fax: +49 331 288 1302
Mail: markus.schwab@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Paleoenvironmental and -climate studies
- Lake Sedimentology, Biogeochemistry
- Climate and Societies
Projects:
- Holocene Climate and settlement history in the Near East (Golan Heights)
- Eifel maar lakes
- The diatom-based varve micro-facies, Lake Holzmaar
- Late Pleistocene (Last Glacial) short Climate cycles in sediments of Lake Kinneret
Career:
- 1998 Dr. rer. nat. Thesis: “Reconstruction of the Late Quaternary climatic and environmental history of the Schirmacher Oasis and the Wohlthat Massif (East Antarctica)”
- 09/87-02/93 Study of Geology / Paleontology at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Germany) Diploma Thesis: "Investigations in order to internal deformation and epi-metamorphosis at selected cores (North German – Polish Caledonides) and rock samples (Massif Brabant Caledonides)."
Experience:
- since 09/07 Research associate at the Leibniz Center for Earth Surface and Climate Studies
- Summer semester 2007 Assistant professor and lecturer at the University of Vienna, Center for Earth Sciences, Dept. for Geodynamic and Sedimentology
- Summer semester 2006 Assistant professor and lecturer at the University of Vienna, Center for Earth Sciences, Dept. for Geodynamic and Sedimentology
- 06/05-08/07 Research associate at the GFZ Potsdam, Section 'Climate Dynamics and Sediments'
- 08/04-05/05 Research associate at the Brunel University of West London, Dept. of Geography & Earth Sciences; EU-funded RELIEF project (RELiable Information on Earthquake Faulting)
- 11/03-07/04 Post-Doctoral Research associate at the GFZ Potsdam, Section 'Climate Dynamics and Sediments'
- 11/98-10/03 Research associate and assistant to the coordinator of the KIHZ project 'Natural climate variations from 10,000 years to the present day', GFZ Potsdam, Section 'Climate Dynamics and Sediments', Potsdam
- 03/01-07/02 Lecturer for Sedimentology at the Geological Institute, University of Potsdam
- 07/98-10/98 Research associate, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Unit 'Periglacial Dynamics', Potsdam
- 10/94-07/98 PhD student, University of Potsdam Research associate at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Unit 'Periglacial Dynamics', Potsdam
- 03/93-09/94 Geologist at the engineering company 'Kühn Geoconsulting' Bonn – Berlin
- 05/87-08/87 Geotechnical staff, brown coal combination Bitterfeld, Department Geotechnics Halle/Saale, Germany
- 11/85-04/87 Basic military service (air force / private first class, radar)
- 09/85-10/85 Exploration deep miner, potassium salt mine Rossleben (South Harz district), Germany
Selected publications:
- Schwab, M.J., Neumann, F., Litt, T., Negendank, J.F.W., Stein, M. (2004): Paleoecological investigations based on Holocene lacustrine sediments from the crater lake Birkat Ram, Golan Heights (Near East). Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 16-17, 1723-1731.
- Hazan, N., Stein, M., Agnon, A. Marco, S., Nadel, D., Negendank, J.F.W., Schwab, M.J., Neev, D. (2005): The late Quaternary limnological history of lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel. Quater. Res.,63, 66-77.
- Frechen, M., Schwab, M.J., Sutter, I.(2004): Luminescence and radiocarbon dating of lake sediments from east Antarctica. In: Higham; T., Bronk Ramsey, C., Owen, C. (eds.): Radiocarbon and Archaeology. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 62, 17-34.
- Zinke, J., von Storch, H., Müller, B., Rein, B., Mieding, H.B., Miller, H., Lücke, A., Schleser, G.H., Schwab, M.J., Negendank, J.F.W., Kienel U. (2004): Evidence for the climate during the Late Maunder Minimum from proxy data available within KIHZ In: Fischer, H., Flöser, G., Kumke, T., Lohmann, G., Miller, H., Negendank, J.F.W., von Storch, H. (eds): The KIHZ project: Towards a synthesis of paleoclimate variability using proxy data and climate models. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 401-418 .
- Frank, U., Schwab, M.J., Negendank, J.F.W. (2003): Results of rock magnetic investigations and relative paleointensity determinations on lacustrine sediments from Birkat Ram, Golan Hights (Israel). J. Geophys. Res., 108(B8), 2379.
- Frank, U., Schwab, M.J., Negendank, J.F.W. (2002): A lacustrine record of paleomagnetic secularvariation from Birkat Ram, Golan Heigths (Israel) for the last 4400 years.- Phys. Earth Planet. Int.: 21-34
- Negendank, J.F.W., Miller, H., von Storch, H., Schwab, M.J., Schwalb, A., Widmann, M. & the KIHZ Consortium (2001): KIHZ: Climate in historical times (Natural climate variations from 10,000 years to the present day). German Global Change Research: 45-53.
- Müller, J., Oerhänsli, H., Melles, M., Schwab, M., Rachold, V. & Hubberten, H.-W. (2001): Late Pliocene sedimentation in Lake Baikal: implications for climatic and tectonic change in SE Siberia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 174(4): 305-326.