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Steffen Mischke - Professor
–
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Steffen Mischke
Íslenska
Professor
Teaching courses on Sedimentology and Thesis skills, and doing research (paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate reconstructions mostly based on sediments and microfossils)
Location
Askja / N-236
Phone
525 - 4495
Email
smi [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Earth Sciences
Website
http://earthice.hi.is/research_work_steffen_mischke
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3821-8497
Research portal – Steffen Mischke
Courses 2024 - 2025
JAR308G - Sedimentology and sedimentary rocks
Collaboration
Birgit Plessen
,
GFZ Potsdam
Ulrike Herzschuh
,
AWI Potsdam
Ilhomjon Rajabov
,
Hydromet Tajikistan
Emi Ito
,
University of Minnesota
Naama Goren-Inbar
,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gonen Sharon
,
Tel Hai College
Hanan Ginat
,
Dead Sea and Arava Science Center
Ahuva Almogi-Labin
,
Geological Survey Israel
Chenglin Liu and Jiafu Zhang
,
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Peking University
Zhongping Lai
,
Wuhan University
Chengjun Zhang
,
Lanzhou University, China
Education
2009
,
Habilitation
,
,
2001
,
Ph.D.
,
,
1997
,
Diploma
,
,
Professional Experience
2014 -
,
Professor,
University of Iceland
2010 -
2014,
Heisenberg Research Fellow,
University of Potsdam
2002 -
2009,
Junior Professor,
Freie Universität Berlin Germany
2008 -
2008,
Visiting scientist,
University of Minnesota
Published works
2024
Arid, mosaic environments during the Plio-Pleistocene transition and early hominin dispersals in northern Africa
Nature Communications
Tibetan terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems collapsed with cryosphere loss inferred from sedimentary ancient metagenomics
Science Advances
2023
Tibetan terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems collapsed with cryosphere loss inferred from sedimentary ancient metagenomics
Late glacial and Holocene climate in the Kunlun Pass region (northern Tibetan Plateau) inferred from a multi-proxy lake record
Quaternary International
2022
Holocene sea-level rise and coastal aquifer interactions: Triggering mechanisms for environmental change and impacts on human settlement patterns at Dor, Israel
Quaternary Science Reviews
2021
Föhn, fire and grazing in Southern Tibet? A 20,000-year multi-proxy record in an alpine ecotonal ecosystem
Quaternary Science Reviews
Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals a threat of warming-induced alpine habitat loss to Tibetan Plateau plant diversity
Nature Communications
Vegetation composition in Sanjiangyuan region compared with Hengduan Mountains (eastern Tibetan Plateau) since the Last Glacial Maximum revealed by plant metabarcoding of sedimentary ancient DNA
Terrestrial-aquatic ecosystem links on the Tibetan Plateau inferred from sedaDNA shotgun sequencing
DO RADIOCARBON AGES OF PLANT WAX BIOMARKERS AGREE WITH 14C-TOC/OSL-BASED AGE MODELS IN AN ARID HIGH-ALTITUDE LAKE SYSTEM?
Radiocarbon
Metabarcoding of modern sedimentary DNA from the Tibetan Plateau and Siberia as a training dataset for vegetation reconstructions
2020
A Late Pleistocene wetland setting in the hyperarid Jurf ed Darawish region in central Jordan
Lake Balkhash (Kazakhstan): Recent human impact and natural variability in the last 2900 years
Journal of Great Lakes Research
Re-examination of Cyclotella lacunarum Hustedt (Bacillariophyta) from lakes in the Pamir Mountains, western China, and description of two similar Lindavia taxa collected from Tajikistan and Nepal
Diatom Research
2019
Late Quaternary environments in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia: Vegetation, hydrological, and palaeoclimate evolution
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
The Holocene salinity history of Lake Lop Nur (Tarim Basin, NW China) inferred from ostracods, foraminifera, ooids and stable isotope data
Global and Planetary Change
Western Mediterranean hydro-climatic consequences of Holocene ice-rafted debris (Bond) events
Climate of the Past
Hydroclimate in the Pamirs Was Driven by Changes in Precipitation‐Evaporation Seasonality Since the Last Glacial Period
Geophysical Research Letters
Erq el Ahmar Elephant Site – A mammoth skeleton at a rare and controversial Plio-Pleistocene site along the mammal migration route out of Africa
Quaternary Science Reviews
Weak Summer Monsoon during the Early Holocene Inferred from the Dingxi Lujiagou Floodplain Lake‐Eolian Sand Rhythm due to Solar Impacting
Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition
Distribution of Recent non-marine ostracods in Icelandic lakes, springs, and cave pools
Journal of Crustacean Biology
Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
On the Paleo-climatic/Environmental Impacts and Socio-Cultural System Resilience along the Historical Silk Road
Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
Landscape Response to Climate and Human Impact in Western China During the Han Dynasty
Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
2018
Vegetation change in the eastern Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan, inferred from Lake Karakul pollen spectra of the last 28 kyr
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Supplementary material to "Western Mediterranean hydro-climatic consequences of Holocene iceberg advances (Bond events)"
Evidence for climatic changes around the Matuyama-Brunhes Boundary (MBB) inferred from a multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental study of the GBY#2 core, Jordan River Valley, Israel
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Late quaternary lake level changes of Taro Co and neighbouring lakes, southwestern Tibetan Plateau, based on OSL dating and ostracod analysis
Global and Planetary Change
Western Mediterranean hydro-climatic consequences of Holocene iceberg advances (Bond events)
2017
Mid- to late Holocene climate-driven regime shifts inferred from diatom, ostracod and stable isotope records from Lake Son Kol (Central Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan)
Quaternary Science Reviews
Atlantic forcing of Western Mediterranean winter rain minima during the last 12,000 years
Quaternary Science Reviews
Radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments from Lake Karakul, Tajikistan
Quaternary Geochronology
2016
Late Pleistocene to Holocene climate and limnological changes at Lake Karakul (Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan)
Supplementary material to "Late Pleistocene to Holocene climate and limnological changes at Lake Karakul (Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan)"
2015
Palaeoenvironmental inferences from late Quaternary sediments of the Al Jafr Basin, Jordan
Quaternary International
Spatio-temporal pattern of detrital clay-mineral supply to a lake system on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, and its relationship to late Quaternary paleoenvironmental changes
Catena
Climate variability on the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau since the Lateglacial based on a multiproxy approach from Lake Naleng - comparing pollen and non-pollen signals
Quaternary Science Reviews
Early to mid-Holocene lake high-stand sediments at Lake Donggi Cona, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China - Comment to the paper published by Dietze et al., Quaternary Research 79 (2013), 325-336
Quaternary Research
Quantitative temperature records of mid Cretaceous hothouse: Evidence from halite fluid inclusions
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Reply to comment by Zhang (2014): The Shell Bar in the Qaidam Basin: fluvial or lake deposit, and OSL versus C-14 age data
Journal of Paleolimnology
Sub-Recent Sexual Populations of Limnocythere inopinata Recorded for the First Time from > 3500 m Altitude on the Tibetan Plateau
Acta Geologica Sinica-English Edition
The Middle Palaeolithic Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet site, Israel: reconstructing the environment of Late Pleistocene wetlands in the eastern Mediterranean from ostracods
Journal of Archaeological Science
Vegetation, Climate, Man - Holocene Variability in Monsoonal Central Asia. In: Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)
SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
The sub-Recent Bradleytriebella lineata (Ostracoda, Crustacea) in Israel
Journal of Micropalaeontology
2014
Open Access Quantitative reconstruction of precipitation changes on the NE Tibetan Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum - extending the concept of pollen source area to pollen-based climate reconstructions from large lakes
Climate of the Past
Introduction to "Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change in continental Asia"
Journal of Paleolimnology
Moisture-advection feedback supports strong early-to-mid Holocene monsoon climate on the eastern Tibetan Plateau as inferred from a pollen-based reconstruction
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Paleohydrology of Lake Kinneret during the Heinrich event H2
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Sclerochronological oxygen and carbon isotope ratios in Radix (Gastropoda) shells indicate changes of glacial meltwater flux and temperature since 4,200 cal yr BP at Lake Karakul, eastern Pamirs (Tajikistan)
Journal of Paleolimnology
Geological setting and age of the Middle Paleolithic site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (Upper Jordan Valley, Israel)
Quaternary International
Paleoenvironmental implications of new OSL dates on the formation of the "Shell Bar" in the Qaidam Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Journal of Paleolimnology
Re-assessment of the paleoclimate implications of the Shell Bar in the Qaidam Basin, China
Journal of Paleolimnology
Recent ecological responses to climate variability and human impacts in the Nianbaoyeze Mountains (eastern Tibetan Plateau) inferred from pollen, diatom and tree-ring data
Journal of Paleolimnology
What drives the recent intensified vegetation degradation in Mongolia - Climate change or human activity?
Holocene
Ostracod evidence for the Acheulian environment of the ancient Hula Lake (Levant) during the early-mid Pleistocene transition
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
An expanded ostracod-based conductivity transfer function for climate reconstruction in the Levant
Quaternary Science Reviews
A modern pollen-climate calibration set from central-western Mongolia and its application to a late glacial-Holocene record
Journal of Biogeography
2013
Geochemical response to palaeoclimate: evidence from the early-mid Holocene lake deposits at Dishaogouwan section in the Salawusu catchment of Inner Mongolia
Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology
Ostracod distribution and habitat relationships in the Kunlun Mountains, northern Tibetan Plateau
Quaternary International
Holocene lake stages and thermokarst dynamics in a discontinuous permafrost affected region, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Compositions: How Lacustrine Environmental Factors Respond in Northwestern and Northeastern China
Acta Geologica Sinica-English Edition
Oxygen and carbon isotope patterns archived in shells of the aquatic gastropod Radix: Hydrologic and climatic signals across the Tibetan Plateau in sub-monthly resolution
Quaternary International
Spatial variability of C-14 reservoir effects in Tibetan Plateau lakes
Quaternary International
Environmental variability in the monsoon-westerlies transition zone during the last 1200 years: lake sediment analyses from central Mongolia and supra-regional synthesis
Quaternary Science Reviews
Proxies for Quaternary monsoon reconstruction on the Tibetan Plateau
Quaternary International
I. Karanovic. Recent Freshwater Ostracods of the World: Crustacea, Ostracoda, Podocopida
Journal of Paleolimnology
2012
Ostracods from a Marmara Sea lagoon (Turkey) as tsunami indicators
Quaternary International
Environmental constraints on lake sediment mineral compositions from the Tibetan Plateau and implications for paleoenvironment reconstruction
Journal of Paleolimnology
Ecological development of Lake Donggi Cona, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, since the late glacial on basis of organic geochemical proxies and non-pollen palynomorphs
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Late Glacial and Holocene development of Lake Donggi Cona, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, inferred from sedimentological analysis
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Holocene hydrological and climatic change on the northern Mongolian Plateau based on multi-proxy records from Lake Gun Nuur
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Late Quaternary climate and landscape evolution in arid Central Asia: A multiproxy study of lake archive Bayan Tohomin Nuur, Gobi desert, southern Mongolia
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Ostracods from water bodies in hyperarid Israel and Jordan as habitat and water chemistry indicators
Ecological Indicators
Quaternary ostracods from the Tibetan Plateau and their significance for environmental and climate-change studies
Ostracoda as proxies for Quaternary climate change
Subfossil ostracode assemblages from Mongolia - Quantifying response for paleolimnological applications
Ecological Indicators
2011
Sedimentary record of coseismic subsidence in Hersek coastal lagoon (Izmit Bay, Turkey) and the late Holocene activity of the North Anatolian Fault
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Terrestrial and aquatic responses to climate change and human impact on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau during the past two centuries
Global Change Biology
Ostracod distribution in Ulungur Lake (Xinjiang, China) and a reassessed Holocene record
Ecological Research
Modest diatom responses to regional warming on the southeast Tibetan Plateau during the last two centuries
Journal of Paleolimnology
Reconstructing climate variability on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau since the last Lateglacial - a multi-proxy, dual-site approach comparing terrestrial and aquatic signals
Quaternary Science Reviews
2010
A modern pollen-climate calibration set based on lake sediments from the Tibetan Plateau and its application to a Late Quaternary pollen record from the Qilian Mountains
Journal of Biogeography
Lateglacial and Holocene variation in aeolian sediment flux over the northeastern Tibetan Plateau recorded by laminated sediments of a saline meromictic lake
Journal of Quaternary Science
Holocene treeline shifts and monsoon variability in the Hengduan Mountains (southeastern Tibetan Plateau), implications from palynological investigations
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Biomarker and compound-specific delta C-13 evidence for changing environmental conditions and carbon limitation at Lake Koucha, eastern Tibetan Plateau
Journal of Paleolimnology
Late glacial vegetation and climate oscillations on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from the Lake Naleng pollen profile
Quaternary Research
Late Quaternary environmental history of the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from the Lake Naleng non-pollen palynomorph record
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Ostracods and stable isotopes of a late glacial and Holocene lake record from the NE Tibetan Plateau
Chemical Geology
Quantitative reconstruction of lake conductivity in the Quaternary of the Near East (Israel) using ostracods
Journal of Paleolimnology
Quantitative relationship between water-depth and sub-fossil ostracod assemblages in Lake Donggi Cona, Qinghai Province, China
Journal of Paleolimnology
Using variations in the stable carbon isotope composition of macrophyte remains to quantify nutrient dynamics in lakes
Journal of Paleolimnology
Lake nutrient variability inferred from elemental (C, N, S) and isotopic (delta C-13, delta N-15) analyses of aquatic plant macrofossils
Quaternary Science Reviews
Modern hydrology and late Holocene history of Lake Karakul, eastern Pamirs (Tajikistan): A reconnaissance study
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Holocene cold events on the Tibetan Plateau
Global and Planetary Change
An ostracod-inferred large Middle Pleistocene freshwater lake in the presently hyper-arid Qaidam Basin (NW China)
Quaternary International
Basin morphology and seismic stratigraphy of Lake Donggi Cona, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, China
Quaternary International
2009
Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Surface-Sediment Carbonate in Bosten Lake (Xinjiang, China) and its Controlling Factors
Acta Geologica Sinica-English Edition
High-Resolution Records of the Holocene Paleoenvironmental Variation Reflected by Carbonate and Its Isotopic Compositions in Bosten Lake and Response to Glacial Activities
Acta Geologica Sinica-English Edition
Quantitative climate and vegetation trends since the late glacial on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau deduced from Koucha Lake pollen spectra
Quaternary Research
A Lateglacial and Holocene lake record from the Nianbaoyeze Mountains and inferences of lake, glacier and climate evolution on the eastern Tibetan Plateau
Quaternary Science Reviews
2008
Reduced early Holocene moisture availability in the Bayan Har Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, inferred from a multi-proxy lake record
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
A laminated tufa carbonate from the mid Holocene of the Qilian Mountains and its potential for palaeoclimate inferences
Episodes
Applications of lacustrine and marginal marine Ostracoda to palaeoenvironmental reconstruction - Preface
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Bias of ostracod stable isotope data caused by drying of sieve residues from water
Journal of Paleolimnology
2007
An ostracod-conductivity transfer function for Tibetan lakes
Journal of Paleolimnology
The palaeoenvironmental variation from the high-resolution record of the Holocene sedimentary carbonate and isotopic composition in Bosten Lake and its response to glacial activity
Acta Geologica Sinica
2006
The 15th International Symposium on Ostracoda
Episodes
Middle Pleistocene Ostracoda from a large freshwater lake in the presently dry Qaidam Basin (NW China)
Journal of Micropalaeontology
Sino-Germany joint investigated environmental changes in Donggi Cona lake area on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology
A Holocene sedimentary record from Bosten Lake, China
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
A large Middle Pleistocene freshwater to oligohaline lake in the contemporary hyperarid Qaidam Basin (China)
Episodes
Temperature variability and vertical vegetation belt shifts during the last similar to 50,000 yr in the Qilian Mountains (NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau, China)
Quaternary Research
The Holocene salinity history of Bosten Lake (Xinjiang, China) inferred from ostracod species assemblages and shell chemistry: Possible palaeoclimatic implications
Quaternary International
2005
New evidence for origin of the Badain Jaran Desert of Inner Mongolia from granulometry and thermoluminescence dating
Journal of Paleogeography
A Late Quaternary lake record from the Qilian Mountains (NW China): lake level and salinity changes inferred from sediment properties and ostracod assemblages
Global and Planetary Change
A late Quaternary lake record from the Qilian Mountains (NW China): evolution of the primary production and the water depth reconstructed from macrofossil, pollen, biomarker, and isotope data
Global and Planetary Change
Groundwater discharge to a Gobi desert lake during Mid and Late Holocene dry periods
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
2004
Ostracod ecology of alluvial loess deposits in an eastern Tian Shan palaeo-lake (NW China)
Palaeoecology of Quaternary Drylands.
2003
Hydrologic and climatic implications of a multidisciplinary study of the mid to late Holocene Lake Eastern Juyanze
Chinese Science Bulletin
Sub-recent ostracoda from Qilian Mountains (NW China) and their ecological significance
Limnologica
Sub-recent ostracoda from Qilian Mountains, NW China
Journal of Micropalaeontology
Palynological investigation of a Holocene profile section from the Palaeo-Gaxun-Nur-Basin
Chinese Science Bulletin
Holocene lake deposits of Bosten Lake, southern Xinjiang, China
Chinese Science Bulletin
2002
Mid to Late Holocene palaeoenvironment of Lake Eastern Juyanze (north-western China) based on ostracods and stable isotopes
Geobios
Formation, age and ostracod ecology of palaeo-lake deposits in the Gangou valley, eastern Tian Shan (NW-China)
Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F.
2001
Sub-recent ostracoda from Bosten Lake, NW China
Journal of Micropalaeontology
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