The library currently comprises more than 21,000 books, reprints, journals, and maps (updated: December 2021) mainly on Quaternary palaeontology. The library also houses the photographic and press archives, and archives on the history and scientific work of the research station.
The responsibilities of the group comprise photography, graphics and surveying work (field and object documentation) in the field, and the production of scientific graphics and photographs for publications and presentations. The group is also responsible for preparing excavation maps for publication and cataloging the 19 collections.
Library
Our library is a scientific reference library (mainly for the Senckenberg staff and our numerous guest researchers) with the main collection dedicated to Quaternary Palaeontology. In exceptional cases it is possible for external visitors to make copies (max. 20 pages, 0,10 € per page). It is only possible to borrow books out of our stock via Thüringische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena , which you can find in the catalogue of the ThULB Jena as well (352 volumes, inter-library loans also possible).
1990-1995
studied biology at University of Leipzig, Germany (major subjects: systematic-taxonomic botany, plant physiology, ecology, geology)
1995
Diploma degree (Dipl.-biol.): Holocene vegetation history of the raised bog “Georgenfelder Hochmoor” (Erzgebirge mountain range, Germany)
1995-2000
PhD student / scientific associate at the Institute of Palaeontology in Bonn, Germany, as part of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Priority Programme “Changes in the Geo-Biosphere”
1999
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at University of Bonn, Germany: Weichselian Late Glacial Vegetation history and palaeoclimatology of the Meerfelder Maar (Eifel region) as inferred from palaeobotanical studies of annually laminated lake sediments
since 2000
head of the Quaternary microflora section of Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology in Weimar.
since May 2022
acting head of Quaternary Palaeontology division
RIEDEL, N., FULLER, D. Q., MARWAN, N., PORESTSCHKIN, C., BASAVAIAH, N., MENZEL, P., RATNAM, J., PRASAD, S., SACHSE, D., SANARAN, M., SARKAR, S. & STEBICH, M. (2021): Monsoon forced evolution of savanna and the spread of agro-pastoralism in peninsular India. – Scientific Reports11: 9032. Open access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88550-8
UTESCHER, T., STEBICH, M. & PRASAD, S. (2021): Diversity patterns of plant functional types in the Holocene of India. – In: NECLIME Online Conference 2021, April 19-22. Conference Volume. – 42-43.
STEBICH, M., HÖFER, D., MINGRAM, J., NOWACZYK, N., ROHRMÜLLER, J., MRLINA, J. & KÄMPF, H. (2020): A contribution towards the palynostratigraphical classification of the Middle Pleistocene in Central Europe: The pollen record of the Neualbenreuth Maar, northeastern Bavaria (Germany). – Quaternary Science Reviews250: 106681 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106681.
PRASAD, S., MARWAN, N., EROGLU, D., GOSWAMI, B., PRAVEEN, K. M., GAYE, B., ANOOP, A., BASAVAIAH, N., STEBICH, M. & JEHANGIR, A. (2020): Holocene climate forcings and lacustrine regime shifts in the Indian Summer Monsoon realm. – Earth Surface Processes and Landforms45 (15): 3842-3853 | https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5004.
SCHRÖTER, N., LAUTERBACH, S., STEBICH, M., KALANKE, J., MINGRAM, J., YILDIZ, C., SCHOUTEN, S. & GLEIXNER, G. (2020): Biomolecular Evidence of Early Human Occupation of a High-Altitude Site in Western Central Asia During the Holocene. – Frontiers in Earth Science8: 20. Open access:https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00020
HÖFER, D., STEBICH, M. & KATZSCHMANN, L. (2019): Palynologische Untersuchungen zur Biostratigraphie und Paläoumwelt des Mittelpleistozäns in Thüringen. – In: 81. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Norddeutscher Geologen, Sangerhausen, 11.-14. Juni 2019, Tagungsband und Exkursionsführer. – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen von Thüringen, Beiheft 12: 33-35.
HERZSCHUH, U., CAO, X., LAEPPLE, T., DALLMEYER, A., TELFORD, R. J., NI, J., CHEN, F., KONG, Zh., LIU, G., LIU, K.-B., LIU, X., STEBICH, M., TANG, L., TIAN, F., WANG, Y., WISCHNEWSKI, J., XU, Q., YAN, Sh., YANG, Zh., YU, G., ZHANG, Y., ZHAO, Y. & ZHENG, Zh. (2019): Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China. – Nature Communications10: 2376. Open access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09866-8
MIGRAM, J., STEBICH, M., SCHETTLER, G., HU, Y., RIOUAL, P., NOWACZYK, N., DULSKI, P., YOU, H., OPITZ, S., LIU, Q. & LIU, J. (2018): Millennial-scale East Asian monsoon variability of the last glacial deduced from annually laminated sediments from Lake Sihailongwan, N.E. China. – Quaternary Science Reviews201: 57-76 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.023
ROHRMÜLLER, J., KÄMPF, H., GEIß, E., GROßMANN, J., GRUN, I., MINGRAM, J., MRLINA, J., PLESSEN, B., STEBICH, M., VERESS, C., WENDT, A. & NOWACZYK, N. (2018): Reconnaissance study of an inferred Quaternary maar structure in the western part of the Bohemian Massif near Neualbenreuth, NE-Bavaria (Germany). – International Journal of Earth Sciences107 (4): 1381-1405 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-017-1543-0
MISHRA, P. K., PRASAD, S., MARWAN, N., ANOOP, A., KRISHNAN, R., GAYE, B., BASAVAIAH, N., STEBICH, M., MENZEL, P. & RIEDEL, N. (2018): Contrasting pattern of hydrological changes during the past two millennia from central and northern India: Regional climate difference or anthropogenic impact? – Global and Planetary Change161: 97-107 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.12.005
UHL, D., KUNZMANN, L., HERTLER, C., KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A., KÖNIGSHOF, P., KULLMER, O., SCHAAL, S.F.K., SMITH, K.T., SOLÓRZANO KRAEMER, M.M., STEBICH, M., TIETZ, O., WILMSEN, M. (2018): Palaeontological collections of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. – In: BECK, L. A., JOGER, U. (Eds.): Paleontological collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland – The history of life of fossil organisms at museums and universities. – 209-240; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77401-5_21
CAO X., TIAN, F., TELFORD, R. J., NI, J., XU, Q., CHEN, F. ,LIU, X., STEBICH, M., ZHAO, Y. & HERZSCHUH, U. (2017): Impacts of the spatial extent of pollen-climate calibration-set on the absolute values, range and trends of reconstructed Holocene precipitation. – Quaternary Science Reviews178: 37-53 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.030
SCHWARZ, A., TURNER, F., LAUTERBACH, S., PLESSEN, B., KRAHN, K. J., GLODNIOK, S., MISCHKE, S., STEBICH, M., WITT, R., MINGRAM, J. & SCHWALB, A. (2017): Mid- to late Holocene climate-driven regime shifts inferred from diatom, ostracod and stable isotope records from Lake Son Kol (Central Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan). – Quaternary Science Reviews177: 340-356 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.009
HU, Y.-Q., MINGRAM, J., STEBICH, M. & LI, J.-F. (2016): A key for the identification of conifer stomata from N.E. China based on fluorescence microscopy. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology233: 12-21 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.06.005
STEBICH, M., REHFELD, K., SCHLÜTZ, F., TARASOV, P. E., LIU, J. & MINGRAM, J. (2015): Corrigendum to “Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics of NE China based on the pollen record from Sihailongwan Maar Lake” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 124 (2015) 275e289]. – Quaternary Science Reviews126: 278 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.09.005
STEBICH, M., REHFELD, K., SCHLÜTZ, F., TARASOV, P. E., LIU, J. & MINGRAM, J. (2015): Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics of NE China based on the pollen record from Sihailongwan Maar Lake. – Quaternary Science Reviews124: 275-289 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.021
SARKAR, S., PRASAD, S., WILKES, H., RIEDEL, N., STEBICH, M., BASAVAIAH, N.& SACHSE, D. (2015): Monsoon source shifts during the drying mid-Holocene: Biomarker isotope based evidence from the core ‘monsoon zone’ (CMZ) of India. – Quaternary Science Reviews123: 144-157 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.020
RIEDEL, N., STEBICH, M., ANOOP, A., BASAVAIAH, N., MENZEL, P., PRASAD, S., SACHSE, D., SARKAR, S. & WIESNER, M. (2015): Modern pollen vegetation relationships in a dry deciduous monsoon forest: A case study from Lonar Crater Lake, central India. – Quaternary International371: 268-279 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.046
THEUERKAUF, M., BOS, J. A. A., JAHNS, S., JANKE, W., KUPARINEN, A., STEBICH, M. & JOOSTEN, H. (2014): Corylusexpansion and persistent openness in the early Holocene vegetation of northern central Europe. – Quaternary Science Reviews90: 183-198 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.03.002
LAUTERBACH, S., WITT, R., PLESSEN, B., DULSKI, P., PRASAD, S., MINGRAM, J., GLEIXNER, G., HETTLER-RIEDEL, S., STEBICH, M., SCHNETGER, B., SCHWALB, A. & SCHWARZ, A. (2014): Climatic imprint of the mid-latitude Westerlies in the Central Tian Shan of Kyrgyzstan and teleconnections to North Atlantic climate variability during the last 6000 years. – The Holocene24 (8): 970-984 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534741
PRASAD, S., ANOOP, A., RIEDEL, N., SARKAR, S., MENZEL, P., BASAVAIAH, N., KRISHNAN, R., FULLER, D., PLESSEN, B., GAYE, B., RÖHL, U., WILKES, H., SACHSE, D., SAWANT, R., WIESNER, M. G. & STEBICH, M. (2014): Prolonged monsoon droughts and links to Indo-Pacific warm pool: A Holocene record from Lonar Lake, central India. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters391: 171-182 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.043
MENZEL, PH., GAYE, B., MISHRA, P. K., ANOOP, A., BASAVAIAH, N., MARWAN, N., PLESSEN, B., PRASAD, S., RIEDEL, N., STEBICH, M. & WIESNER, M. G. (2014): Linking Holocene drying trends from Lonar Lake in monsoonal central India to North Atlantic cooling events. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology410: 164-178 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.044
SARKAR, S., WILKES, H., PRASAD, S., BRAUER, A., RIEDEL, N., STEBICH, M., BASAVAIAH, N. & SACHSE, D. (2014): Spatial heterogeneity in lipid biomarker distributions in the catchment and sediments of a crater lake in central India. – Organic Geochemistry66: 125-136 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.11.009
MAUL, L. C., STEBICH, M., FRENZEL, P., HAMBACH, U., HENKEL, T., KATZSCHMANN, L., KIENAST, F., MENG, S., PENKMAN, K., ROLF, C., THOMAS, M. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2013): Age and palaeoenvironment of the enigmatic Arternian Interglacial – evidence from the Muschelton at Voigtstedt/Hackelsberg (Thuringia, Central Germany). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology386: 68-85 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.05.005
MENZEL PH., GAYE, B., WIESNER, M. G., PRASAD, S., STEBICH, M., DAS, B. K., ANOOP, A., RIEDEL, N. & BASAVAIAH, N. (2013): Influence of bottom water anoxia on nitrogen isotopic ratios and amino acid contributions of recent sediments from small eutrophic Lonar Lake, central India. – Limnology and Oceanography58 (3): 1061-1074 | https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2013.58.3.1061
STEBICH, M., MINGRAM, J., MOSCHEN, R., THIELE, A. & SCHRÖDER, C. (2011): Comments on “Anti-phase oscillation of Asian monsoons during the Younger Dryas period: Evidence from peat cellulose ?13C of Hani, Northeast China” by B. Hong, Y.T. Hong, Q.H. Lin, Yasuyuki Shibata, Masao Uchida, Y.X. Zhu, X.T. Leng, Y. Wang and C.C. Cai [Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 297 (2010) 214-222]. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology310 (3/4): 464-470 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.06.004
KLEINEN, T., TARASOV, P., BROVKIN, V., ANDREEV, A. & STEBICH, M. (2011): Comparison of modeled and reconstructed changes in forest cover through the past 8000 years: Eurasian perspective. – The Holocene21 (5): 723-734 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683610386980
MRLINA, J., KÄMPF, H., KRONER, C., MINGRAM, J., STEBICH, M., BRAUER, A., GEISSLER, W. H., KALLMEYER, J., MATTHES, H. & SEIDL, M. (2009): First Quaternary maar structure of the Bohemian Massif, Central Europe – findings of combined geophysical and geological surveys. – Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research182 (1/2): 97-112 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.01.027
STEBICH, M., MINGRAM, J., HAN, J. & LIU, J. (2009): Late Pleistocene spread of (cool-)temperate forests in Northeast China and climate changes synchronous with the North Atlantic region. – Global and Planetary Change65 (1/2): 56-70 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.10.010
PARPLIES, J., LÜCKE, A., VOS, H., MINGRAM, J., STEBICH, M., RADTKE, U., HAN, J. & SCHLESER, G. H. (2008): Late glacial environment and climate development in northeastern China derived from geochemical and isotopic investigations of the varved sediment record from Lake Sihailongwan (Jilin Province). – Journal of Paleolimnology40 (1): 471-487 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-007-9176-0
STEBICH, M., ARLT, J. & MINGRAM, J. (2007): Late Quaternary vegetation history of Northeast China – Recent progress in the palynological investigations of Sihailongwan maar lake. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg259: 181-190; Stuttgart.
SCHETTLER, G., SCHWAB, M. J. & STEBICH, M. (2007): A 700-year record of climate change based on geochemical and palynological data from varved sediments (Lac Pavin, France). – Chemical Geology240: 11-35 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.01.003
SCHETTLER G., LIU, Q., MINGRAM, J., STEBICH M. & DULSKI, P. (2006): East-Asian monsoon variability between 15 000 and 2 000 cal. yr BP recorded in varved sediments of Lake Sihailongwan (northeastern China, Long Gang volcanic field). – The Holocene16 (8): 143-157 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683606069388
STEBICH, M., BRÜCHMANN, C., KULBE, T. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2005): Vegetation history, human impact and climate change during the last 700 years recorded in annually laminated Sediments of Lac Pavin, France. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology133 (1/2): 115-133 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2004.09.004
STEBICH, M., BRÜCHMANN, C. & MINGRAM, J. (2004): Late Quaternary Vegetation history of north-eastem China – preliminary results of palaeobotanical studies from annually laminated maar lake sediments. – In: MAUL, L. C., & KAHLKE, R.-D. (Eds) (2004): Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Conference Volume. 18th International Senckenberg Conference. VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar. Weimar (Germany), 25th – 30th April, 2004. – Terra Nostra2004 (2): 239-241; Berlin.
STEBICH, M. & SCHNEIDER, H. (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs in Thüringen. Teil 1: Mikro- und Makrofloren. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (Hrsg.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen, N. F.9: 119-144.
ACKSEL, D., SCHWAB, M.J., STEBICH, M., BRÜCHMANN, C. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2002): Erstes vollständiges See-Sedimentprofil aus dem Lac Pavin – Chronologische und paläoklimatische Informationen. – Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft21: 59.
BRÜCHMANN, C., KULBE, T., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2002): Sedimentologische und mikrostratigraphische Untersuchungen der Laminae des Maarsees Lac Pavin, Auvergne/Frankreich. – Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft21: 87.
KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C., MEYRICK, R. A., STEBICH, M. & GRASSELT, T. (2002): The Quaternary from the late Middle to Upper Pleistocene site of Weimar-Ehringsdorf. – In: MEYRICK, R.A. & SCHREVE, D.C. (Eds): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia and surroundings). Field Guide. – 163-178; Quaternary Research Association, London.
STEBICH, M. (2002): Armleuchteralgen – filigrane Gesteinsbildner in Karstgewässern. – Natur und Museum132 (6): 220-221.
STEBICH, M. & SCHNEIDER, H. (2002): The Quaternary micro- and macro floras of Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (Eds): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings), Field Guide. – 9-29; Quaternary Research Association, London.
LITT, T., BRAUER, A., GOSLAR, T., MERKT, J., BALAGA, K., MÜLLER, H., RALSKA-JASIEWICZOWA, M., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2001): Correlation and synchronisation of Lateglacial continental sequences in northern central Europe based on annually-laminated lacustrine Sediments. – Quaternary Science Reviews20 (11): 1233-1240 | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(00)00149-9
BRAUER, A., ENDRES, C., GÜNTER, C., LITT, T., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (1999): High resolution Sediment and Vegetation responses to Younger Dryas climate change in varved lake Sediments from Meerfelder Maar, Germany. – Quaternary Science Reviews18 (3): 321-329 | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00084-5
LITT, T., BRAUER, A., GOSLAR, T., MERKT, J., BALAGA, K., MÜLLER, H., RALSKA-JASIEWICZOWA, M., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (1999): Correlation and Synchronisation of Lateglacial continental sequences in northern central Europe based on varved limnic Sediments. – Terra Nostra1999 (10): 58-63.
LITT, T. & STEBICH, M. (1999): Bio- and chronostratigraphy of the Lateglacial in the Eifel region, Germany. – Quaternary International61: 5-16 | https://doi.org/10.1016/S1040-6182(99)00013-0
STEBICH, M. (1999): Palynologische Untersuchungen zur Vegetationsgeschichte des Weichsel-Spätglazial und Frühholozän an jährlich geschichteten Sedimenten des Meerfelder Maares (Eifel). – Dissertationes Botanicae320: 1-127.
LITT, T., STEBICH, M. & BRAUER, A. (1998): Bio- and chronostratigraphy of the Lateglacial in the Eitel region based on varved Sediments. – Terra Nostra1998 (6): 82-88; Berlin.
LITT, T., FRÜCHTL, M., KUBITZ, B. & STEBICH, M. (1997): Jungquartäre Floren in den Eifelmaaren. – In: Exkursionsführer 67. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft. – Terra Nostra1997 (7): 54-62.
LITT, T., FRÜCHTL, M., KUBITZ, B. & STEBICH, M. (1997): Palaeobotanical investigations. – Terra Nostra1997 (8): 25-29.
STEBICH, M. & LITT, T. (1997): Das Georgenfelder Hochmoor – ein Archiv für Vegetations-, Siedlungs- und Bergbaugeschichte. – Leipziger Geowissenschaften5: 209-216.
KIENAST, F., KAHLKE, R.-D., KEILER, J.-A., STEBICH, M. & WILDE, V. (2012): Weimarer quartärbotanische Sammlungen in neuem Domizil. – Natur • Forschung • Museum142 (9/10): 324-327.
KAHLKE, R.-D., KIENAST, F., MAUL, L. C. & STEBICH, M. (2009): Neuaufstellung der quartärpaläontologischen Sammlungen. – Natur und Museum139 (5/6): 196-201.
STEBICH, M. (2002): Armleuchteralgen – filigrane Gesteinsbildner in Karstgewässern. – Natur und Museum132 (6): 220-221.
since 2002
Head of the library of the Senckenberg researchstation of Quaternary palaeontology Weimar/Quaternary palaeontolgy division
2001-2003
Master degree in Library Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (MA (LIS) – Master of Arts Library and Information Science). Master thesis: Die Bibliothek der Gedenkstätte Buchenwald. Entwicklung und Perspektiven einer One-Person Library 1990-2002.
1987-1997
Master studies in Art History, Archaeological Studies; Theater, Film and Media Studies; History, German Literature, and Sociology at Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M. (M.A. – Magistra Artium). Master thesis: ‘Unehrbare Weiber’ und moralische Ordnung – Zum Wandel des Geschlechterverhältnisses im Frankfurt des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit (1450-1560).
Born 1968 in Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
FIEDLER, B. (2012): Quartärpaläontologische Forschung in Weimar 1962-2011. Eine Bibliographie. – 1-124; Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung; Frankfurt/M.
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