Archive
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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 -
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 publication
A new study provides quantitative constraints on long-term climate-induced groundwater changes in the desert of Nevada
12.04.2023 -
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 publicaton
Tanguy Racine's new study provides unprecedented insights into the long-term evolution of ice in caves of the Alps
29.07.2022 -
New institute secretary
We welcome Alexandra Kapferer who joins our institute as a second secretary.
24.10.2022 -
Successful KR9 conference
We hosted the international conference "Climate Change The Karst Record IX (KR9)"
21.07.2022 -
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 -
New publication
A new article examines Heinrich Stadial 2 with implications for the precise chronology of Greenland and Antarctic ice cores
05.10.2022 -
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 institute secretary
We welcome Gabriella Hirsch who joins our institute as a second secretary.
11.01.2022 -
Welcome guest professor
We are pleased to welcome guest professor Jeffrey Munroe to the Institute.
01.10.2023 -
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 -
Neue Publikation / New Publication
Eine neue Studie unter der Leitung von Gabriella Koltai füllt eine Lücke bei der Verwendung von Calcit als Geothermometer
A new study led by Gabriella Koltai fills a gap in the use of calcite at a geothermometer
Link: https://quaternary.uibk.ac.at/News/2024/New-publication.aspx29.01.2024 -
Leistungs- und Förderungsstipendien
Die Universität Innsbruck vergibt Leistungs- und Förderungsstipendien. Informationen zu den Voraussetzungen und Fristen gibt es unter:
13.03.2024 -
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