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• Doku­men­ta­ti­ons­film zur Ent­ste­hung der Alpen und deren Sta­bi­li­tät

  Ab sofort in der ZDF Mediathek und am 2. Juni 2024, 20.15 Uhr auf ZDFinfo.
  Die Geologin Hannah Pomella von der Universität Innsbruck berichtet über die Entstehung der Alpen und den Bau des Brennerbasistunnels und der Informatiker Jan Beutel über seine Forschung zur Stabilität des Gebirges am Beispiel des Matterhorns.

  02.06.2024
• Bri­tish Vogue Arti­kel über Gina Mos­ley und die Erkun­dung einer Höhle in Grön­land

  22.05.2024
• Neue Pub­li­ka­ti­on: Wie alt ist das Eis der Eis­rie­sen­welt Höh­le?

  15.05.2024
• Neue Assis­tenz-Pro­fes­so­rin

  Wir freuen uns Anna Dominika Rogowitz als neue Assistenz-Professorin begrüßen zu dürfen!

  30.04.2024
• Leis­tungs- und För­de­rungs­sti­pen­dien

  Die Universität Innsbruck vergibt Leistungs- und Förderungsstipendien. Informationen zu den Voraussetzungen und Fristen gibt es unter:

  13.03.2024
• Neue Pub­li­ka­tion / New Pub­li­ca­tion

  Eine neue Studie unter der Leitung von Gabriella Koltai füllt eine Lücke bei der Verwendung von Calcit als Geothermometer.
  Link: https://quaternary.uibk.ac.at/News/2024/New-publication.aspx

  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

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

  01.10.2023
• New publi­ca­tion

  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

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

  12.04.2023
• New publi­ca­tion

  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
• Rene­wal of Dona­tion by Petro­leum Experts

  Petroleum Experts Ltd renews 10 educational Move software licences valued at £ 1,872,218.26 donated to the Department of Geology

  13.12.2022
• New insti­tute secre­tary

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

  24.10.2022
• New publi­ca­tion

  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 publi­ca­ton

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

  20.09.2022
• Article in Nati­o­nal Geo­gra­phic

  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

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

  20.08.2022
• New publi­ca­ton

  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 publi­ca­ton

  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 Senior Scien­tist for paleo data ana­ly­ses

  We welcome Dr. Arne Ramisch who joins our institute as senior scientist for the Austrian Core Facility of scientific core logging and scanning

  01.07.2022
• New insti­tute secre­tary

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

  11.01.2022
• Alpenprofil

  29.11.2013
• Gra­tu­la­tion Dr. Mole­naar

  16.07.2024
• New article in cli­mate of the past

  23.09.2024
• Olo­gies pod­cast on Spe­leo­logy

  23.09.2024
• Gra­tu­la­tion assoz. Prof. Dr. Moer­naut

  01.09.2024