Prof. Dr. Martin Kehl

Martin Kehl is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Koblenz and studies the significance of climate and humans for landscape evolution as well as the effects of environmental changes on pre-modern societies. He investigates sedimentary archives of past environmental change and human adaptation including soils, loess, lake sediments and anthropogenic deposits. His research focuses on the Late Quaternary and Iran.

He is the author of Quaternary loesses, loess-like sediments, soils and climate change in Iran (2010) and co-editor of Loess records of environmental change (2020), Inside-outside. Integrating cave and open-air archives (2018) and Loess, soils and climate change in Iran and vicinity (2017). Results of his research on the Quaternary of Iran are also published in a large number of co-authored peer-reviewed papers.