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Michael C. MEYER

Position: Marie Curie Research Fellow
Room: 41.266
Phone No.: +61 2 4221 5946
E-mail: meyer@uow.edu.au

Research Interests

• Luminescence dating of archaeological and paleoenvironmental sites in Africa and Europe
• Glaciations and human occupation of central High Asia
• Quaternary landscape evolution and environmental changes

Representative Publications

Brown, K.S., Marean, C.W., Herries, A.I.R., Jacobs, Z., Tribolo, Ch., Braun, D., Roberts, D.L., Meyer, M.C. & Bernatchez, J. (2009): Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans. Science, 325, 859-862.

Meyer, M. C., Cliff, R. A., Spötl, C., Knipping, M. &. Mangini, A. (2009): Speleothems from the earliest Quaternary: snapshots of paleoclimate and landscape evolution at the northern rim of the Alps, Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 1374-1391.

Meyer, M. C., Hofmann, Ch. Ch., Gemmell, A. M. D., Haslinger, E., Häusler, H., Wangda, D. (2009): Holocene glacier fluctuations and migration of Neolithic yak pastoralists into the high valleys of northwest Bhutan, Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 1217-1237.

Meyer, M. C., Spötl, C. &. Mangini, A. (2008): The demise of the Last Interglacial recorded in isotopically dated speleothems from the Alps, Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 476-496.

Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Meyer, M. C. &. Mangini, A. (2007): Identifying low-temperature hydrothermal karst and paleowaters using stable isotopes: a case study from an Alpine cave, Entrische Kirche, Austria. Intern. J. Earth Sci., doi: 10.1007/s00531-007-0263-2.

Meyer, M. C., Wiesmayr, G., Brauner, M., Häusler, H. & Wangda, D. (2006a): Active Tectonics in Eastern Lunana (NW-Bhutan): Implications for the seismic and glacial hazard potential of the Bhutan-Himalaya. Tectonics, TC 3001, doi: 10.1029/2005TC001858.

Meyer, M. C., Faber, R., Spötl, C. (2006b): The Wingeol Lamination Tool – new software for rapid semi-automated analysis of laminated climate archives. The Holocene, 16/5, 753-761.

Wiesmayr, G., Edwards, M.A., Meyer, M. C., Kidd, W.S.F., Leber, D., Häusler, H. &. Wangda, D. (2002): Evidence for steady fault accommodated strain in the High Himalaya; progressive fault rotation of the southern Tibet detachment system in NW-Bhutan. From: De Meer, S., Drury, M. R., De Bresser, J. H. P. & Pennock G. M. (eds). Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics: Current Status and Future Perspectives. Geol. Soc. London, Special Publications, 200, 371 - 386.

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Abbreviated CV

2008 – pesent: Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship. Geoarchaeology, Paleoenvironments and Luminescence Geochronology in the Eastern Alpine Realm and South Africa during the last Glacial Cycle (115-11 ka), School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, U. Wollongong, Australia (outgoing host) & Institute for Geology and Palaeontology, U. Innsbruck, Austria (EU host).

2008: Otto Ampferer Preis – Award of the Austrian Geological Society for outstanding scientific achievements of early career researchers.

2007 – 2008: Erwin Schrödinger Postdoctoral International Fellowship. U. Wollongong, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Australia.

2006 – 2007: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Geology and Palaeontology, U. Innsbruck, Austria. Alpine Quaternary dynamics of the Brixen Basin, Südtirol - OSL dating & field investigations.

2006: PhD Institute for Geology and Palaeontology, U. Innsbruck, Austria. Laminated speleothems as high-resolution archives of the Alpine paleoclimate.

2004 Research grant from the University-Jubilee-Foundation of the city of Vienna: Ice ages, Paleoclimate and Paleoecology in the Bhutan-Himalaya.

2001: M. Sc. Centre for Earth Sciences, U. Vienna, Austria. Glacial Geology and Holocene glacier fluctuations in Eastern Lunana, Bhutan-Himalaya.

1999 – 2001: Expeditions into the Bhutan-Himalaya. Participant in the Austrian–Bhutanese Cooperation Project Glacial lake outburst floods and geo-hazard mitigation in NW Bhutan, Centre for Earth Sciences, U. Vienna, Austria.