Archive

• Out­stand­ing achieve­ments in earth and atmo­spheric sci­ences

  The Faculty of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Innsbruck once again honored outstanding academic achievements this year. On June 13, 2025, the faculty prizes for the best theses and, for the first time, for special commitment in teaching were awarded in a festive setting at the Archaeological Museum.

  10.07.2025
• Moun­tain archae­ol­ogy beyond bor­ders

  10.06.2025
• Alaska: Melt­wa­ter archive reveals role of north­east­ern pacific on cli­mate con­di­tions

  14.05.2025
• Active par­tic­i­pa­tion in the EGU pro­gram

  09.05.2025
• FWF grants 6 inter­na­tional projects

   

  The austrian scientific funding organisation grants six international individual projects by scientists from the university of Innsbruck. All togehter the funding amount is over 2 Million euros.

  07.05.2025
• New Paper in Qua­ter­nary Science Reviews

  We document a strong earthquake in the European Southern Alps during Roman Times

  07.04.2025
• Science Writ­ing Retreat

  24.02.2025
• New pub­li­ca­tion: Diabase is petrol­o­gists best friend

  24.02.2025
• Geo­science at LehrePlus

  30.01.2025
• Tirol sup­ports young sci­en­tists

  21 young researchers out of 10 faculties from the University of Innsbruck received a grant from the Tyrolean young researchers Funding, one of them institute of geology.

  30.01.2025
• Cave explo­ration in Green­land

  09.01.2025
• Renewal of Dona­tion by PE Limited

  16.12.2024
• Action day 17, 2024

  18.10.2024
• Out­stand­ing per­son­al­i­ties hon­ored

  Six persons were awarded at the Dies Academicus, one of them is R. Lawrence Edwards, an international geoscientist, who got an honorary degree.

  18.10.2024
• New Science Com­mu­ni­ca­tion project was funded

  12.10.2024
• FWF funds 12 projects

  10.10.2024
• Olo­gies pod­cast on Spele­ol­ogy

  23.09.2024
• New arti­cle in cli­mate of the past

  23.09.2024
• Hypo-Tirol Dis­ser­ta­tion award

  Ten outstanding theses from eight departments are honored with the Dissertation award by the Hypo Tirol bank. That was, for the faculty of earth and atmosphere science Paul Töchterle, BSc MSc PhD, from the institute of geology with his thesis: Permafrost Response to Rapid Climate Change during the Last Glacial Period

  18.09.2024
• Con­grat­u­la­tions assoz. Prof. Dr. Moer­naut

  01.09.2024
• Con­grat­u­la­tions Dr. Mole­naar

  16.07.2024
• New pub­li­ca­tion: How old is the Ice in the Eis­riesen­welt?

  27.06.2024
• Doc­u­men­tary film on the for­ma­tion of the Alps and their sta­bil­ity

  Now available in the ZDF Mediathek and on June 2, 2024, 8:15 p.m. on ZDFinfo.
  Geologist Hannah Pomella from the University of Innsbruck reports on the formation of the Alps and the construction of the Brenner Base Tunnel and computer scientist Jan Beutel on his research into the stability of mountains using the example of the Matterhorn.

  27.06.2024
• Caves, speleothems and pale­o­cli­mate in Vogue mag­a­zine

  27.06.2024
• New assis­tent pro­fes­sor Anna Dominika Rogowitz

  We are pleased to welcome Anna Dominika Rogowitz as our new assistant professor!

  27.06.2024
• Award­ing per­for­mance-based and schol­ar­ships for sci­en­tific the­ses

  13.03.2024
• New pub­li­ca­tion by Gabriella Koltai

  A new study led by Gabriella Koltai fills a gap in the use of calcite at a geothermometer.

  29.01.2024
• Dis­ser­ta­tion: Moj­gan Soleimani vertei­digte ihre Dis­ser­ta­tion mit dem Titel Pleis­tocene pale­o­cli­mate in cen­tral and south­west­ern Iran based on speleothems

  11.12.2023
• Writ­ing Retreat

  PhDs, PostDocs and staff from the Institute of Geology as well as the Institute of Mineralogy retreated for a week into the magnificent halls of the St. Lambrecht monastery in upper Styria from the 20-24th of November to focus on their individual writing projects. The science writing retreat was organized by the research center "Geodynamics and Geomaterials".  

  27.11.2023
• Dis­ser­ta­tion: Paul Töchterle vertei­digte seine Dis­ser­ta­tion mit dem Titel Per­mafrost Response to Rapid Cli­mate Change dur­ing the Last Gla­cial Period

   

   

  20.10.2023
• Wel­come guest pro­fes­sor Jef­frey Mun­roe

  We are pleased to welcome guest professor Jeffrey Munroe to the Institute.

  01.10.2023
• New pub­li­ca­tion: ther­mo­elas­tic prop­er­ties of ice in caves

  A recently published article shows how the thermoelastic properties of ice in caves explain the widespread occurrence of damaged stalagmites in caves during cold periods of the Pleistocene.

  06.05.2023
• New pub­li­ca­tion: quan­ti­ta­tive con­straints on long-term cli­mate-induced ground­wa­ter changes in the desert of Nevada

  A new study provides quantitative constraints on long-term climate-induced groundwater changes in the desert of Nevada.

  12.04.2023
• New pub­li­ca­tion: seis­mic haz­ard esti­mates for Carinthia

  A new study validates seismic hazard estimates for Carinthia using a new calibrated 14.000-year lacustrine paleoseismology record in lake Wörthersee.

   

  18.01.2023
• Research award of the Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse for Gina Mose­ley

  Gina Moseley received the research award of the Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse for her habilitation thesis "Improving understanding of rapid climate change events and past warm periods in the Quaternary."

  16.01.2023
• New insti­tute sec­re­tary: Alexan­dra Kapferer

  We welcome Alexandra Kapferer who joins our institute as a second secretary.

  24.10.2022
• New pub­li­ca­tion: Hein­rich Sta­dial 2 with impli­ca­tions for the pre­cise chronol­ogy of Green­land and Antarc­tic ice cores

  A new article examines Heinrich Stadial 2 with implications for the precise chronology of Greenland and Antarctic ice cores.

  05.10.2022
• Thank you ao. Univ.-Prof. i. R. Dr. Karl Krainer

  After 45 years at the University of Innsbruck (first as student, then research assistant and professor since 1997), Karl Krainer retired end of September 2022. We thank him for his great contribution to research and teaching and wish him all the best.

  30.09.2022
• New pub­li­ca­tion: 1000 year-long cal­en­dar of megadroughts in north­east India

  A new study provides a 1000 year-long calendar of megadroughts in northeast India.

  20.09.2022
• Arti­cle in National Geo­graph­ic: ice caves in the Alps

  In its recent issue National Geographic features ice caves in the Alps and documents the work by members of the Quaternary Research Group in this rapidly changing subsurface world.

  13.09.2022
• New pub­li­ca­tion: Lit­tle Ice Age cli­mate in Europe

  Christoph Spötl participated in a recent study of the Little Ice Age climate in Europe.

  20.08.2022
• New pub­li­ca­tion: 220 kyr-span­ning event-strati­graphic record of the Dead Sea

  Yin Lu's study unravels a 220 kyr-spanning event-stratigraphic record of the Dead Sea revealing contrasting roles of sediment density flows over glacial cycles.

  15.08.2022
• New pub­li­ca­tion: long-term evo­lu­tion of ice in caves of the Alps

  Tanguy Racine's new study provides unprecedented insights into the long-term evolution of ice in caves of the Alps

  29.07.2022
• Suc­cess­ful KR9 con­fer­ence

  We hosted the international conference "Climate Change The Karst Record IX (KR9)"

  21.07.2022
• New insti­tute sec­re­tary Gabriella Hirsch

  We welcome Gabriella Hirsch who joins our institute as a second secretary.

  11.01.2022