Deutsch Intern
    Physical Geography and Soil Science

    Dr. Simon MEYER-HEINTZE

    Tel.: +49 931 31-81169
    Fax: +49 931 31-85544
    E-Mail: simon.meyer-heintze@uni-wuerzburg.de

    Institute of Geography and Geology
    Working group Physical Geography and Soil Science
    Am Hubland
    97074 Wuerzburg

    Campus Hubland South
    Geography Building
    Room 231

    • Quaternary, loess stratigraphy, sedimentology, soil geography, paleopedology, geoarcheology
    • analytical methods (soil micromorphology, heavy minerals, lasergranulometry, XRF)
    • Geographic information systems (GIS), Fortran 77, R
    • digital soil modelling
    • Working group SLD – Soil and Landscape Dynamics

    MEYER-HEINTZE, Simon (2024):
    Holocene pedosedimentary sequences as archives for paleoenvironmental reconstructions
    (URN: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-349098)
    Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl (RWTH Aachen University), Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Baumhauer
    Examiner: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl (RWTH Aachen University), apl. Prof. Dr. Barbara Sponholz

    Multi-scale studies of pedocomplexes with shallow buried soils in German and Austrian periglacial environments

    • funding
      Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; TE295/25-1)
    • duration
      02/2021 - 06/2025
    • project leader
      Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst
    • project staff
      Simon Meyer-Heintze, M.Sc.
    • further iformation
      project description
    • Kooperationspartner
      Prof. Dr. Manfred Frechen, LIAG Hannover (Geochronology) Germany
      Dr. Sergey Sedov, UNAM Mexico City, Institute of Geology (Paleosols, micromorphology, image analyses)

    Prehistoric Man-Environment Relationships in the Gypsum Karst of the Windsheimer Bucht, Northern Bavaria. Dolines as Archives for Settlement and Landscape History

    since Mar 2016
    PhD student

    Dec 2013 - Feb 2016
    Part-time research assistant at the Chair in Physical Geography, Institute for Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg (working group Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst)

    Jul 2010 – Dec 2013
    Student assistant at the Chair in Physical Geography, Institute for Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg (working group Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst)

    Oct 2012 – Sep 2015
    Master studies in geography, University of Würzburg. Thesis: “Hochaufgelöste Paläoumweltdaten im ausgehenden MIS3 in der Lössregion um Krems an der Donau, Niederösterreich” (supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst)

    Oct 2008 – Sep 2012
    Bachelor studies in geography, University of Würzburg. Thesis: “Die Löss-Paläobodensequenz Krems-Wachtberg als Beispiel einer interdisziplinären Forschungskooperation” (supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst)

     

    Researchstays, internships & further education

    Nov 2017
    Training course in Archaeological Soil Micromorphology (Dr. Richard I Macphail, University College of London)

    Sep - Oct 2017
    Intensive training course on micromorphology (Dr. Rosa M Poch, Prof. Dr. Georges Stoops, University of Lleida)

    Jul - Aug 2014
    Research and internship at the Laboratory for Physical Geography, RWTH Aachen University (head: Prof. F. Lehmkuhl)

    Jun 2014
    International course on paleosols and paleoenvironment, University of Würzburg (Dr. A. Makeev, Prof. B. Terhorst, Dr. E. Solleiro-Rebolledo, T. Sprafke)

    Jan & Apr 2012
    Research and internship at the Laboratory for Physical Geography, University of Vienna (head: Dr. R. Peticzka)

    Sep 2011 & Aug - Jun 2012
    Research and internship at the excavation of the Paleolithic site Krems-Wachtberg (head of quaternary archeology: Dr. Ch. Neugebauer-Maresch, head of excavation: Dr. T. Einwögerer)

    Waroszewski, J., Pietranik, A., Sprafke, T., Kabała, C., Frechen, M., Jary, Z., Kot, A., Tsukamoto, S., Meyer-Heintze, S., Krawczyk, M., Łabaz, B., Schultz, B., Erban Kochergina, Y. V. (2021): Provenance and paleoenvironmental context of the Late Pleistocene thin aeolian silt mantles in southwestern Poland - A widespread parent material for soils. Catena 204, 105377.

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Sprafke, T., Krech, M., Beigel, R., Nadler, M., Kriens, B., Wagner, F., Solleiro-Rebolledo, E., Damm, B., Falkensten, F., Terhorst, B. (2020): Pedosedimentary and geoarcheological archives from clay-dominated sinkhole infillings in Middle Franconia, Germany. CATENA, 195.

    Sprafke, T., Schulte, P., Meyer-Heintze, S., Händel, M., Einwögerer, T., Simon, U., Peticzka, R., Schäfer, C., Lehmkuhl, F., Terhorst, B. (2020): Paleoenvironments from robust loess stratigraphy using high-resolution color and grain-size data of the last glacial Krems-Wachtberg record (NE Austria). Quaternary Science Reviews, 248.

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Sprafke, T., Schulte, P., Terhorst, B., Lomax, J., Fuchs, M., Lehmkuhl, F., Neugebauer-Maresch, C., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Simon, U., Solís Castillo, B. (2018): The MIS 3/2 transition in a new loess profile at Krems-Wachtberg East - A multi-methodological approach. Quaternary International, 464, 370-385.

    Terhorst, B., Sedov, S., Sprafke, T., Petizcka, R., Meyer-Heintze, S., Kühn, P. & Solleiro-Rebolledo, E. (2015): Austrian MIS 3/2 loess-palaeosol records – Key sites along a west-east transect. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 418, 43-56.

    Terhorst, B., Kühn, P., Damm, B., Hambach, U., Meyer-Heintze, S. & Sedov, S. (2014): Paleoenvironmental fluctuations as recorded in the loess-paleosol sequence of the Upper Paleolithic site Krems-Wachtberg. Quaternary International 351, 67-82.

    Terhorst B., Sauer, D., Meyer-Heintze, S. (2017): Auf den Spuren der Kaltzeit in den Böden der deutschen Mittelgebirge. Geographische Rundschau 69 (6), 36-42.

    Meyer-Heintze S., Terhorst, B., (2016): Aus Bytes werden Böden – Ansätze zur Modellierung der Bodenverbreitung im Würzburg Umland. In: Baumhauer R., Hahn, B., Wiktorin D. (eds.), Atlas Würzburg – Vielfalt und Wandel der Stadt im Kartenbild.

    Krech, M., Terhorst, B., Nadler, M., Knipping, M., Sprafke, T., Meyer-Heintze, S., Wagner, F. (2016): Geoarchäologische Untersuchungen in der Keuperlandschaft Mittelfrankens. Geoökodynamik 37/3-4, 111-138.

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Schulte, P., Wolf, T. (2021): Clay-dominated polygenic pedosedimentary sequences as records for Holocene soil and landscape development in context to archeological records: examples from the Windsheimer Bucht, Middle Franconia, Germany. Mid-European Geomorphology Meeting 2021 - Geomorphology in a changing climate and environment, Munich, Nov 05-09, 2021.

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Krech, M., Terhorst, B., Sprafke, T., Ullmann, T., Solleiro-Rebolledo, E., Nadler, M., Beigel, R., Falkenstein, F., Wagner, F., 2016: Holozäne Pedosedimente in Gipskarstdolinen der Windsheimer Bucht (Mittelfranken). DEUQUA, Dresden (Poster).

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Sprafke, T., Terhorst, B., Schäfer, C. & Peticzka, R. (2015): Farbmessungen zur Charakterisierung interstadialer Löss-/Paläobodensequenzen in Niederösterreich. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft –Unsere Böden – unser Leben, 8. – 11. April 2015, München (Poster).

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Sprafke, T., Terhorst, B., Schulte, P., Lehmkuhl, F., Neugebauer-Maresch, C., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Simon, U., Lomax, J., Fuchs, M. & Solleiro-Rebolledo, E. (2015): Multidisciplinary approach to the loess profile Krems-Wachtberg East, Lower Austria (MIS3/2). In: Transactions of the Dan H. Yaalon Symposium (Hrsg.: Kandeler, E., Rennert, T., Stahr, K., Streck, T.). Hohenheimer Bodenkundliche Hefte 115 (Oral presentation).

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Sprafke, T., Schulte, P., Terhorst, B. & Lehmkuhl, F. (2014): Middle to upper pleniglacial transition recorded in the loess profile of Krems-Wachtberg East, Lower Austria. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung des AK Geoarchäologie und der AG Paläopedologie, 29.-31. Mai 2014, Aachen (Poster).

    Terhorst, B., Meyer-Heintze, S. (2021): Aus Bytes werden Böden - Ansätze zur Modellierung der Bodenverbreitung im Würzburger Raum. Invited joint presentation for the German Society for Cartography - Section for Bavaria (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie, Sektion Bayern), Munich, Dec 01, 2021.

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Krech, M., Beigel, R., Sprafke, T., Nadler, M., Wagner, F., Solleiro-Rebolledo, E., Diaz Ortega, J., Damm., B., Falkenstein., F., Terhorst., B., 2017: Geoarchäologische Untersuchungen an holozänen Dolinenfüllungen des mittelfränkischen Gipskeupers. 13. Jahrestagung des AK Geoarchäologie, 12.-14. Mai 2017, Erlangen (Oral presentation).

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Schulte, P., Sprafke, T., Terhorst, B., Lehmkuhl, F., Neugebauer-Maresch, C., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Simon, U., Lomax, J. & Fuchs, M. (2015): The loess-palaeosol sequence Krems-Wachtberg – Testing high-resolution sedimentological proxies in the Lower Austrian transition area for the MIS3/MIS2. Forschungskolloquium des Instituts für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie der RWTH Aachen, 5. Mai 2015, Aachen.

    Meyer-Heintze, S., Sprafke, T., Schulte, P., Terhorst, B. & Lehmkuhl, F. (2014): MIS 3 / 2 transition recorded in the loess profile of Krems-Wachtberg East, Lower Austria. Interrelation between Paleosols & Paleolithic Sites (IPPAS), 27. & 28. Juni 2014, Krems, Österreich.