Paul Strobel (M.Sc.)

Late Quaternary climate and environmental reconstruction based on lake and peat sediments from 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).

Submittet

Strobel, P., Struck, J., Zech, R., Bliedtner, M., submitted. The spatial distribution of grain size and geochemical proxies in Lake Khar Nuur, Mongolian Altai.

2019 - 2020

• 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