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Heinz Veit is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant focus on Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, History, and Plant Science.

Their recent publications cover a diverse range of topics and have appeared in multiple scientific journals. Notable papers include:

  • "Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia" (2020, Nature)
  • "Nonuniform Late Pleistocene glacier fluctuations in tropical Eastern Africa" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "The enigma of relict large sorted stone stripes in the tropical Ethiopian Highlands" (2021, Earth Surface Dynamics)
  • "Elevational ground/air thermal gradients in the Swiss inner Alpine Valais" (2020, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research)
  • "An hourly ground temperature dataset for 16 high-elevation sites (3493-4377 m a.s.l.) in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (2017-2020)" (2022, Earth system science data)

The main topics of Heinz Veit's work include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Cassava research and cyanide
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Frequent coauthors of Heinz Veit include:

  • Alexander Raphael Groos
  • Naki Akçar
  • Janik Niederhauser
  • Luise Wraase
  • Falk Hänsel

Heinz Veit's work has been published several times in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, Science Advances, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research, and Earth-Science Reviews. This range indicates a multidisciplinary engagement across fields related to Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia

    Umberto Lombardo;José Iriarte;Lautaro Hilbert;Javier Ruiz-Pérez

  • A 22,000 14C year BP sediment and pollen record of climate change from Laguna Miscanti (23°S), northern Chile

    M Grosjean;J.F.N van Leeuwen;W.O van der Knaap;M.A Geyh

  • Early to Mid-Holocene Aridity in Central Chile and the Southern Westerlies: The Laguna Aculeo Record (34°S)

    Bettina Jenny;Blas L. Valero-Garcés;Rodrigo Villa-Martínez;Roberto Urrutia

  • Timing of the late Quaternary glaciation in the Andes from ∼15 to 40° S†

    Roland Zech;Jan-Hendrik May;Christoph Kull;Jana Ilgner

  • Moisture changes and fluctuations of the Westerlies in Mediterranean Central Chile during the last 2000 years: The Laguna Aculeo record (33°50′S)

    Bettina Jenny;Blas L Valero-Garcés;Roberto Urrutia;Kerry Kelts

  • Early and Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Occupations in Western Amazonia: The Hidden Shell Middens

    Umberto Lombardo;Katherine Szabo;José M. Capriles;Jan Hendrik May

  • Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

    Götz Ossendorf;Alexander R. Groos;Tobias Bromm;Minassie Girma Tekelemariam

  • Palaeohydrology of Laguna de Tagua Tagua (34° 30′ S) and moisture fluctuations in Central Chile for the last 46 000 yr

    Blas L. Valero-Garcés;Bettina Jenny;Mauricio Rondanelli;Antonio Delgado-Huertas

  • Modeling Modern and Late Pleistocene Glacio-Climatological Conditions in the North Chilean Andes (29–30 °)

    Christoph Kull;Martin Grosjean;Heinz Veit

  • Geomorphology and paleoecology of the arid diagonal in Southern South America

    Elena M. Abraham De Vazquez;Karsten Garleff;Helga Liebricht;Alberto C. Regairaz

  • Raised fields in the Bolivian Amazonia: a prehistoric green revolution or a flood risk mitigation strategy?

    Umberto Lombardo;Elisa Canal-Beeby;Seraina Fehr;Heinz Veit

  • Long-term man–environment interactions in the Bolivian Amazon: 8000 years of vegetation dynamics

    Sandra Olivia Brügger;Sandra Olivia Brügger;Erika Gobet;Jacqueline van Leeuwen;Marie-Pierre Ledru

  • Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Central Andes: Temperature versus humidity control — A case study from the eastern Bolivian Andes (17°S) and regional synthesis

    Christoph Kull;Samuel Imhof;Martin Grosjean;Roland Zech

  • A late-Holocene (<2600 BP) glacial advance in the south-central Andes (29°S), northern Chile

    M. Grosjean;M. A. Geyh;B. Messerli;H. Schreier

  • Snow cover and soil moisture controls on solifluction in an area of seasonal frost, eastern Alps

    Philipp Jaesche;Heinz Veit;Bernd Huwe

  • Exposure dating of Late Glacial and pre-LGM moraines in the Cordon de Doña Rosa, Northern/Central Chile (~31° S)

    Roland Zech;Christoph Kull;Peter Kubik;Heinz Veit

  • Periglacial cover-beds on the Swiss Plateau: indicators of soil, climate and landscape evolution during the Late Quaternary

    Reiner Mailänder;Heinz Veit

  • LGM and Late Glacial glacier advances in the Cordillera Real and Cochabamba (Bolivia) deduced from 10 Be surface exposure dating

    Roland Zech;Christoph Kull;Peter Kubik;Heinz Veit

  • Glacier and climate reconstruction at Tres Lagunas, NW Argentina, based on 10Be surface exposure dating and lake sediment analyses

    Jana Zech;Roland Zech;Roland Zech;Peter W. Kubik;Heinz Veit

  • Pedostratigraphy and pedological and geochemical characterization of Las Carreras loess paleosol sequence, Valle de Tafí, NW-Argentina

    Andreas Schellenberger;Heinz Veit

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Zech
Roland Zech Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Frank Preusser
Frank Preusser University of Freiburg
Naki Akçar
Naki Akçar University of Bern
Ramon Julià
Ramon Julià Spanish National Research Council
Francesc Burjachs
Francesc Burjachs Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Martin Grosjean
Martin Grosjean University of Bern
Blas L. Valero-Garcés
Blas L. Valero-Garcés Spanish National Research Council
Marcus Christl
Marcus Christl ETH Zurich
Wolfgang Zech
Wolfgang Zech University of Bayreuth

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