Rate My Professor Gerhard Schmiedl

Schmiedl earned a Diplom in Geology and Paleontology from the University of Würzburg (1985-1991), a PhD from the University of Bremen (2001) on late Quaternary deep-water circulation and productivity in the eastern South Atlantic via benthic foraminiferal assemblages, and a Habilitation from the University of Tübingen (2001) on climatic forcing of deep-sea ecosystems using recent and fossil benthic foraminifera. His career trajectory features a Heisenberg Fellowship (2002-2006) across the University of Leipzig, Ohio State University, and Université d’Angers; Assistant Professor at Leipzig (2001-2002); postdoctoral fellowships at Ohio State University (1998-1999) and research associate roles at the University of Tübingen and Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (1995-1998). Extensive field experience includes research cruises to Antarctica, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. Awards encompass the Heisenberg Fellowship (2002-2005), Ohio State University Postdoctoral Fellowship (1998-1999), Annette-Barthelt Award for marine research (1992), and Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes fellowships. Prominent publications include “Stable carbon isotopes in paleoceanography: Atmosphere, oceans, and sediments” (Earth-Science Reviews, 2019, with A. Mackensen); “Glacial-interglacial changes in bottom-water oxygen content on the Portuguese margin” (Nature Geoscience, 2015); and “Oxygenation changes in the deep western Arabian Sea during the last 190,000 years” (Paleoceanography, 2005). A member of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Cushman Foundation, Micropaleontological Society, and Deutscher Hochschulverband, Schmiedl’s contributions have advanced paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic reconstructions.