Paul Strobel (M.Sc.)

Late Quaternary climate and environmental reconstruction based on lake and peat sediments from South Africa

https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/434918595?context=projekt&task=showDetail&id=434918595&

https://www.researchgate.net/project/Late-Quaternary-climate-and-environmental-reconstruction-based-on-lake-and-peat-sediments-from-the-central-southern-Cape-region-of-South-Africa

• Lake and peat sediments/deposits as archives for paleoenvironmental and climatic evolution and its dynamic in southern Africa during the late Quaternary
• Multi-proxy approach including: leaf-wax and plant-derived sugar biomarkers, compound-specific stable isotopes as well as various (in)organic (bio)geochemical analyses
• Sediment fluxes and transformation processes into lakes (source to sink) and sediment distribution in lakes

• South Africa
• Mongolia
• Germany

Since 01/2019
PhD student at the Institute of Geography, FSU Jena (Landesgraduiertenstipendium 2019)

Since 10/2017
Research associate at the Institute of Geography, FSU Jena

10/2014-09/2017
M.Sc. studies Geography (Physical Geography and Geoecology) at FSU Jena
Master thesis: Paleoenvironmental investigations on peat sediments from Vankervelsvlei in the year-round rainfall zone of South Africa

10/2011-09/2014
B.Sc. studies Geography at FSU Jena
Bachelor thesis: Vergleich gemessener und simulierter Klimadaten im Bundesstaat Rio de Janeiro im Hinblick auf hydrologische Modellierungen

06/2010
Abitur at Goethe-Gymnasium Weimar

05/2020 - Bliedtner, M., Strobel, P., Struck, J., Enyedi, B., Bromm, T., Glaser, B., Salazar, G., Szidat, S., Loren, R., Dubois, N., Zech, R. (2020): Human-induced soil erosion and landscape changes in the Mongolian Altai - a biogeochemical multi-proxy approach from Lake Khar Nuur. Euopean Geoscience Union 2020, Vienna (poster).

05/2020 - Strobel, P., Zech, R., Bliedtner, M., Struck, J., Glaser, B.; Zech, M., Meadows, M.E., Haberzettl, T. (2020): Calibration of δ²H_n-alkane and δ¹⁸O_sugar for paleoclimate reconstructions in South Africa and its first application to peat sediments from Vankervelsvlei. Euopean Geoscience Union 2020, Vienna (poster).

05/2020 - Struck, J., Bliedtner, M., Strobel, P., Daut, G., Schumacher, J., Bittner, L., Plessen, B., Glaser, B., Klaes, B., Bazarradnaa, E., Salazar, G., Szidat, S. , Zech, M., Zech, R. (2020): Calibration and paleohydrological application of compound-specific isotope analyses (δ13Cwax, δ2Hwax and δ18Osugar) in semi-arid/arid Mongolia. Euopean Geoscience Union 2020, Vienna (poster).

09/2019 - Strobel, P., Haberzettl, T., Bliedtner, M., Kasper, T., Struck, J., Zabel, M., Zech, R. (2019): A 8.5 kyr high-resolution multi-proxy paleoclimate record from lake Voёlvlei, Southern Cape, South Africa. GeoMünster 2019, Münster (talk).

09/2019 - Zech, R., Bliedtner, M., Struck, J., Strobel, P., von Suchodoletz, H., Bazarradnaa, E., Zech, M. (2019): Calibrating Leaf Wax Pattern and Compound-Specific Isotopes. International Loess Symposium, Jerevan (talk).

07-08/2019 - Strobel, P., Haberzettl, T., Bliedtner, M., Kasper, T., Struck, J., Zabel, M., Mäusbacher, R., Meadows, M.E., Zech, R. (2019): A 8.5 kyr high-resolution multi-proxy paleoclimate record from lake Voёlvlei, Southern Cape, South Africa. International Union for Quaternary Research 2019, Dublin (poster).

07-08/2019 - Struck, J., Strobel, P., Bliedtner, M., Schumacher, J., Bittner, L., Bazarradnaa, E., Glaser, B., Zech, M., Zech, R. (2019): A 4 kyr high-resolution multi-proxy paleoclimate record from Lake Telmen, Central Mongolia. International Union for Quaternary Research 2019, Dublin (poster).

05/2019 - Strobel, P., Haberzettl, T., Bliedtner, M., Kasper, T., Struck, J., Zabel, M., Zech, R. (2019): A 8.5 kyr high-resolution multi-proxy paleoclimate record from lake Voёlvlei, Southern Cape, South Africa. 13^th International Young Geomorphologists Meeting, Wolfshausen (Giessen) (poster).

05/2019 - Struck, J., Bliedtner, M., Strobel, P., Schumacher, J., Bazarradnaa, E., Zech, R. (2019): Paleoclimate reconstructions in Mongolia using biomarkers - A regional scale calibration study on plants and topsoils. 13^th International Young Geomorphologists Meeting, Wolfshausen (Giessen) (poster).

04/2018 - Strobel, P., Haberzettl, T., Frenzel, P., Schittek, K., Quick, L., Kasper, T., Schefuß, E., Kirsten, K., Meadows, M.E., Mäusbacher, R. (2018): Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental change in the year-round rainfall zone of South Africa derived from peat sediments from Vankervelsvlei. Euopean Geoscience Union 2018, Vienna (poster).

09/2017 - Strobel, P., Haberzettl, T., Frenzel, P., Schittek, K., Quick, L., Kasper, T., Schefuß, E., Kirsten, K., Meadows, M.E., Mäusbacher, R. (2017): Paleoenvironmental investigations on peat sediments from Vankervelsvlei in the year round rainfall zone of South Africa. GeoBremen 2017, Bremen (poster).

Submitted/in revision

• Strobel, P., Bliedtner, M., Carr, A.S., Frenzel, P., Klaes, B., Salazar, G., Struck, J., Szidat, S., Zech, R., Haberzettl, T. (2020). Holocene sea level and environmental change at the southern Cape - an 8.5 kyr multi-proxy paleoclimate record from lake Voёlvlei, South Africa. Clim. Past Discuss. 2020, 1-37.

2021

• Strobel, P., Struck, J., Zech, R., Bliedtner, M. (2021): The spatial distribution of sedimentary compounds and their environmental implications in surface sediments of Lake Khar Nuur (Mongolian Altai). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5049.

2019 - 2020

• Struck, J., Bliedtner, M., Strobel, P., Bittner, L., Bazarradnaa, E., Andreeva, D., Zech, W., Glaser, B., Zech, M., Zech, R. (2020): Leaf waxes and hemicelluloses in topsoils reflect the δ²H and δ¹⁸O isotopic composition of precipitation in Mongolia. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 343.
• Kirsten, K.L., Kasper, T., Cawthra, H.C., Strobel, P., Quick, L.J., Meadows, M.E., Haberzettl, T. (2020): Holocene variability in climate and oceanic conditions in the winter rainfall zone of South Africa—inferred from a high resolution diatom record from Verlorenvlei. Journal of Quaternary Science. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3200.
• Strobel, P., Haberzettl, T., Bliedtner, M., Struck, J., Glaser, B., Zech, M., Zech, R. (2020): The potential of δ²H_n-alkanes and δ¹⁸O_sugar for paleoclimate reconstruction – A regional calibration study for South Africa. Science of The Total Environment 716: 137045. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137045.
• Struck, J., Bliedtner, M., Strobel, P., Schumacher, J., Bazarradnaa, E., Zech, R. (2020): Leaf wax n-alkane patterns and compound-specific δ¹³C of plants and topsoils from semi-arid and arid Mongolia. Biogeosciences 17: 567-580. DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-567-2020.
• Strobel, P., Kasper, T., Frenzel, P., Schittek, K., Quick, L.J., Meadows, M.E., Mäusbacher, R., Haberzettl, T. (2019): Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in the year-round rainfall zone of South Africa derived from peat sediments from Vankervelsvlei. Quaternary Science Reviews 218: 200-214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.014