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Dr. Inka Meyer
Curriculum vitae
Since 05/2011 Postdoctoral researcher in CARIMA (Central Asia recorded in marine archives) project
01/2010-02/2010 Research stay at the VU Amsterdam
10/2009-Present Administration of the grain-size-lab, MARUM
09/2009-10/2010 PhD representative of MARUM
01/2009-03/2009 Research stay at the VU Amsterdam
02/2008-Present PhD student in EUROPROX
Title:Holocene
desertification trends in NW-Africa inferred
from end-member modelling of grain-size distributions of terrigenous sediments and
provenance studies
10/2001- 12/2007 University of Bremen, Germany
Diploma in Geography
Title of Diploma: Die "Kleine Eiszeit" in Südpatagonien - ein Vergleich
paläoklimatischer Rekonstruktionen mit den Ergebnissen eines gekoppelten Ozean-Atmosphären-Klimamodells
09/2000-09/2001 Shop assistant, New Yorker Nord GmbH & Co.KG, Bremen
06/2000 High school diploma, Kippenberg Gymnasium, Bremen
Expeditions
R.V. Poseidon/P365
Las Palmas-Las Palmas (13.04.08-29.04.08)
Research area: central eastern Atlantic
Principle scientist: G. Fischer (University Bremen)
R.V. Poseidon/P366/1
Las Palmas-Las Palmas (03.05-19.05.08)
Research area: off Mauretania, off Marocco
Principle scientist: S. Kasten (AWI Bremerhaven)
R.V. Maria S. Merian/MSM11/2
Dakar-Las Palmas (14.03-09.04.09)
Research area: offshore Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco
Principle scientist: T. Bickert (MARUM)
Fieldwork in Mauritania
16.11-27.11.2009
Research area: Mauritania
Principle scientist: J.-B. Stuut (MARUM/NIOZ)
Talks and Presentations
- Inka Meyer, Jan-Berend W. Stuut & G. Davies (2010). Past climates from terrigenous sediments offshore NW Africa: evidence from Nd and Sr isotopes (Talk), VII International Conference on Aeolian Research (ICAR), Santa Rosa, Argentina, 2010
Inka Meyer, Jan-Berend W. Stuut & G. Davies (2010). Provenance of terrigenous material in marine sediments offshore NW Africa: a problem of grain size (Talk), EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
Inka Meyer & Sebastian Wagner (2010). The Little Ice Age in South America: Data and Modelling (Invited Talk), VI Souther Connection Congress, Bariloche, Argentina
Inka Meyer, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Gesine Mollenhauer, Stefan Mulitza & Matthias Zabel (2009). Late Holocene interdecadal climate variability in the Sahel: inferences from a marine dust record offshore Senegal (Poster), EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
Inka Meyer, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Maarten Prins, Matthias Zabel, Christoph Vogt & Dierk Hebbeln (2009). Holocene climate variability in northwest Africa inferred from marine records off Saharan dust (Poster), NSG/EUROPROX Symposium, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jan-Berend W. Stuut , Inka Meyer , Helmut Fischer , Gesine Mollenhauer , Stefan Mulitza , Dana Pittauerova , Matthias Zabel & Michael Schulz (2008). A marine perspective: Late Holocene climate variability in the Sahel, Acquiring high to ultra-high resolution geological records of past climate changes by scientific drilling (Poster), IODP Workshop, Potsdam, Germany
Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Inka Meyer, Gaute Lavik, Enno Schefuß & Matthias Zabel (2008). Aeolian dust off northwest Africa (Poster), 3rd International Workshop on Mineral Dust, Leipzig, Germany
Jan-Berend W. Stuut & Inka Meyer (2008). Paleoclimate on geological timescales: African climate since the Late Neogene (Talk) 19th SAfA Biennial Meeting Frankfurt / Main, Germany
Inka Meyer, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Maarten Prins, Matthias Zabel, Christoph Vogt & Dierk Hebbeln (2008). Holocene desertification trends in NW-Africa inferred from end-member modelling of grain-size distributions of terrigenous sediments and provenance studies (Poster), 5thUrbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology, Urbino, Italy
Publications
Skonieczny C., Bory A., Bout-Roumazeilles V., Abouchami W., Galer S.J.G, Crosta X., Stuut
J.-B., Meyer I., Tanré D., Goloub P., Chiapello I., Marticorena B., Rajot J.-L., Podvin
T., Chatenet B., A. Diallo and T. Ndiaye (in rev.). Multi-proxy characterization of
mineral dust deposition at Mbour, Senegal : The 7-13 March 2006 dust storm over
West Africa. Journal of Geophysikal Research- Atmospheres
Meyer I., G. Davies and J.-B. W. Stuut, 2011, Grain-size control on Sr-Nd-isotope
provenance studies and impact on paleoclimate reconstructions: an example from deep
sea sediments offshore NW-Africa. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12, 3, doi:10.1029/2010GC003355
Mulitza S., Heslop D. , Pittauerova D. , Fischer H.W., Meyer I , Stuut J-B. , Zabel M., Mollenhauer G., Collins J.A., Kuhnert H. & M. Schulz, 2010. Increase in African dust flux at the onset of commercial agriculture in the Sahel region. Nature, 466, 226-228; doi:10.1038
Meyer, I. & S. Wagner, 2009. The Little Ice Age in Southern South America: Proxy and Model Based Evidence. In: Vimeux , F., Sylvestre F., & M. Khodri (eds.): Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions, Springer Verlag
Meyer, I. & S.Wagner, 2008. The Little Ice Age in southern Patagonia: Comparison between paleoecological reconstructions and downscaled model output of a GCM simulation. PAGES News, Vol. 16, No. 2, P. 12-13
Teaching
- Sediment core course 2009/ Bachelor
- Sediment core course 2010/ Bachelor
- Marine environmental archives project 2010/ Master
- Sediment core course 2011/ Bachelor