Simon Steidle
Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group
PhD project
Reconstructing the Pleistocene hydroclimate in the United States' Great Basin
Research Interests
Understanding shifts in climate and moisture availability on regional and global scale.
Utilising speleothems as high-resolution climate archives.
Short CV
2019-2024 PhD candidate at the University of Innsbruck
2018-2019 Master Thesis Sea level reconstruction in the late Quaternary with 230Th/U dated submerged speleothems
2017-2019 M.Sc. Physics at Heidelberg University
2014-2017 B.Sc. Physics at Heidelberg University
Publications
Steidle, S.D., Dublyansky, Y., Roman, M., Moseley, G.E., Wendt, K.E., Edwards, R.L. & Spötl, C. (2026): Timing and amplitude of hydroclimate changes during the last glacial cycle in southwestern North America. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 109865, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109865
Wendt, K.A., Carolin, S., Buizert, C., Steidle, S.D., Edwards, R.L., Moseley, G.E., Dublyansky, Y., Cheng, H., He, C., Warner, M.S.C., Spötl, C. (2025): Controls on the southwest USA hydroclimate over the last six glacial-interglacial cycles. – Nature Communications, 1 6:10007, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64963-1
Affek, H.P., Barkan, E., Tal, Y., Steidle, S.D., Wendt, K.A., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Fishman, E. & Dublyansky, Y. (2025): 17Oexcess in Devils Hole calcite: an indicator of equilibrium fractionation and paleo moisture sources. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 667, 119528, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119528.
Warken, S.F., Schorndorf, N., Stinnesbeck, W., Hennhoefer, D., Stinnesbeck, S.R., Förstel, J., Steidle, S.D., Olguin, J.A., Frank, N. (2021): Solar forcing of early Holocene droughts on the Yucatán peninsula. - Scientific Reports, 11:13885.
Steidle, S.D., Warken, S.F., Schorndorf, N., Förstel, J., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Moseley, G.E., Spötl, C., Avilés, J., Stinnesbeck, W., Frank, N.: Reconstruction of Middle to Late Quaternary sea level using submerged speleothems from the northeastern Yucatán Peninsula. - Journal of Quaternary Science, 36, 1190-1200.
Töchterle, P., Steidle, S.D., Edwards, R.L., Dublyansky, Y., Spötl, C., Li, X., Gunn, J., Moseley, G.E. (2022): 230Th/U isochron dating of cryogenic cave carbonates. – Geochronology, 4, 617-627.
Jackson, T.R., Steidle, S.D., Wendt, K.A., Dublyansky, Y., Spötl, C. (2023): A 350,000-year history of groundwater recharge in the southern Great Basin, USA. – Communications Earth & Environment, 4:98, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00762-0.
Steidle, S.D., Wendt, K.A., Dublyansky, Y., Edwards, R.L., Li, X., McClure, G., Moseley, G.E., Spötl, C. (2024): Moisture availability and groundwater recharge paced by orbital forcing over the past 750,000 years in the southwestern USA. – Communications Earth & Environment, 5:376, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01550-0.