CRC 806 - Project Affiliation:

Project B3
Environmental Response on Climate Impact in the Levant during the Last Glacial and Holocene and their Role in the Origin of Agriculture

Project Z3
Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG)

Scientific Interests:

• Diatoms and palaeoecological reconstructions

• Paleaobotany

• reconstruction of palaeoenvironments and the palaeoclimate

• Levant region, Israel

Publications:

• Vossel, H., Roeser P., Litt T. & Reed J.M. (2018). Lake Kinneret (Israel): New insights into Holocene regional palaeoclimate variability based on high resolution multi-proxy analysis. The Holocene, vol. 28(9), 1395-1410.
• Vossel, H.; Reed, J. M.; Houk, V.; Cvetkoska, A. & Van de Vijver, B. (2015): Cyclotella paleo-ocellata, a new centric diatom (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Kinneret (Israel). Fottea (15-1), 63-75.

Education:

2019 Dr. rer. nat. in Geosciences, University of Bonn

Phd Thesis: Holocene environmental and climate change in the southern Levant: diatom-based palaeolimnology of Lake Kinneret (Israel)

2012: M.Sc. in Geoscience, University of Bonn

M.Sc. Thesis: Diatomeen-Analyse an Sedimentbohrkernen aus dem See Genezareth (Israel) – Quantitative Diatomeen-Analyse zur Indikation der ökologischen Veränderungen des Sees Genezareth im Verlauf der letzten ca. 8.000 Jahre mittels Sedimentbohrkernen (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Litt; Dr. Georg Heumann)

2010: B.Sc. in Geoscience, University of Cologne

B.Sc. Thesis: Eozäne Radiolarien aus dem Bathprofil in Barbados – Anwendung verschiedener Präparations- und Mikroskopier-Techniken bei der Untersuchung von ausgewählten Radiolarien Taxa (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raimund Below; Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig)

Field Work / Research Assignments:

November 2018: Jerusalem (Israel), Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project Workshop

March 2016: Research stay at CEREGE (Center Research & Training in Geoscience) in Aix-en-Provence, France

November 2014: Field trip to Israel (DSDDP Workshop, Ein Gedi (Israel))

July 2014: Research stay at the Plantentuin Meise, Botanical Garden of Brussels (Belgium)

Since 2012: Several research stays at the University of Hull (England)

March 2012: Internship at the Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Tiberias (Israel)

Work experience:

since October 2019 Graduate school coordinator, Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) at the University of Cologne

2016 - 2019 Research Associate & Young Lecturer at the University of Bonn

2016 - 2017 Mentor for Geoscience-program (B.Sc and M.Sc) at the University of Bonn

2013 - 2016 Scholarship student of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

2013 - 2016 Research assistant within CRC 806/Project B3, University of Bonn

2011 - 2013 Student Research assistant within CRC 806/Project B3, University of Bonn

2009 - 2010 Student Research assistant in several projects (e.g. as tutor), University of Cologne

Professional Memberships:

• Paläontologische Gesellschaft

• International Society of Diatom Research (elected council member - Early Career Representative)
  

• Berufsverband Deutscher Geowissenschaftler

• Quaternary Research Association

Conference Papers:

• Hartung, H.; Litt, T.; Reed, J.M.; Stone, J. (2019): Holocene environmental and climate change in the southern Levant: diatom-based palaeolimnology of Lake Kinneret (Israel). Central European Diatom Meeting, Belvaux (Luxembourg). Talk (“Best student presentation Award”)
• Hartung, H., Litt, T., Reed, J.M. (2018): Lake Kinneret (Israel): Holocene lake-level reconstruction based on diatoms. Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP) workshop in Jerusalem (Israel). Talk & Poster
• Vossel, H.; Roeser, P.; Litt, T.; Reed, J.M. (2018): Lake Kinneret (Israel): New insights into Holocene regional palaeoclimate variability based on high resolution multi-proxy analysis. GeoBonn - Living Earth 2018 in Bonn (Germany). Poster
• Vossel, H.; Roeser, P.; Litt, T.; Reed, J.M. (2018): Lake Kinneret (Israel): Diatom-based palaeoecological reconstruction for the Holocene. IPA-IAL Joint Meeting in Stockholm (Schweden). Poster
• Vossel, H.; Litt, T.; Reed, J.M.; Stone, J. (2018): Lake Kinneret (Israel): Lake-level reconstruction for the Holocene based on the plankton/benthos-ratio - An appropriate method? IDS 2018 - 25th International Diatom Symposium in Berlin (Germany). Poster
• Vossel, H.; Litt, T.; Reed, J.M.; Stone, J. (2017): Is the present the key to the past ? - Modern diatom communities of Lake Kinneret (Israel). British Diatom Meeting 2017 in North Yorkshire (England). Talk
• Vossel, H.; Böttcher, H.; Reed, J.M.; Litt, T. (2016): The present is the key to the past - an investigation of the distribution of modern diatom communities in Lake Kinneret (Israel). IDS 2016 - 24th International Diatom Symposium in Quebec City (Canada). Poster
• Vossel, H.; Litt, T.; Reed, J.M. (2016): The diatom flora of Lake Kinneret (Israel) - New insights into Holocene climate change and human impact in the southeastern Mediterranean. IDS 2016 - 24th International Diatom Symposium in Quebec City (Canada). Talk
• Vossel, H.; Litt, T.; Reed, J.M. (2016): The diatom flora of Lake Kinneret (Israel) - New insights into Holocene climate change and human impact in the southeastern Mediterranean. 10th Central European Diatom Meeting in Budapest (Hungary). Talk
• Vossel, H.; Litt, T.; Reed, J.M. (2015): The diatom flora of Lake Kinneret (Israel) - Paleolimnological evidence for Holocene climate change and human impact in the Southeastern Mediterranean. Annual Meeting Dutch-Flemish Society of Diatomists (NVKD) in Mont Rigi (Belgium). Talk as invited gueast speaker
• Vossel, H.; Litt, T.; Reed, J.M. (2015): The diatom flora of Lake Kinneret (Israel) - Paleolimnological evidence for Holocene climate change and human impact in the Southeastern Mediterranean. European Geoscience Union General Assembly in Vienna (Austria). Poster
• Vossel, H.; Reed, J.M.; Houk, V.; Cvetkoska, A. & Van de Vijver, B. (2015): Cyclotella paleo-ocellata, a new centric diatom (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Kinneret (Israel). 9th Central European Diatom Meeting in Bremerhaven (Germany). Poster & 2 minutes speed talk
• Vossel, H.; Litt, T.; Schiebel, V.; Reed, J.M. (2013): Holocene paleoclimate reconstruction in the Eastern Mediterranean: a quantitative diatom study of an appr. 18 m long sediment core from Lake Kinneret (Israel). 7th Central European Diatom Meeting in Thonon-les-Bains (France). Talk & 1st place "best student presentation award"

Links:

HTTPS://www.uni-koeln.de/

https://www.ifgeo.uni-bonn.de/abteilungen/palaeontologie/arbeitsgruppen/palaeobotanik/ag-litt