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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
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, Kudrass, H., Palamenghi, L. and T. Schwenk (2011), Sediment transport of Bangladesh: the power of tropical cyclones in a submarine canyon (Poster), AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, United States
Inka Meyer, Davies, G. and J.-B- W. Stuut (2011) Provenance of Saharan dust: insights from sedimentary archives offshore NW Africa (Talk), ADOM-MARUM Dust workshop 2011, Bremen, Germany
Inka Meyer, Davies, G. and J.-B- W. Stuut (2011), Holocene paleo-environmental history of the Saharan Desert insights from sedimentary archives offshore NW Africa (Talk), Minerva Gentner Symposiun on Aeolian Processes, Eilat, Israel
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
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
Kretschmer S., Geibert W., Heslop D., Kuhn G., Meyer I., Rutgers van der Loeff M.M. and G. Mollenhauer (in prep.). The origin of focused marine sediments: an exploration of local vs. remote sediment sources from grain size data, 230Thxs and clay mineralogy. Paleoceanography
Just J., Heslop D., von Dobeneck T., Bickert T., Dekkers M.J., Frederichs T. Meyer I., and M. Zabel (in rev.), Multi-proxy characterization, validation and budgeting of terrigenous end-members at the
NW African continental margin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Skonieczny C., Bory A., Bout-Roumazeilles V., Abouchami W., Galer S.J.G, Crosta X., Stuut J.-B. W., Meyer I., Chiapello I., Podvin T., Chatenet B., A. Diallo and T. Ndiaye (2011). Multi-proxy characterization of mineral dust deposition at Mbour, Senegal : The 7-13 March 2006 major Saharan outbreak: Multiproxy characterization of mineral dust deposited on the West African margin. Geophysical Research Letters
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
- Sedimentological Methods 2012/ Bachelor
- Sediment core course 2012/ Bachelor