Research
Ongoing Projects
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2023-2027; FWF Project Nr. P 36809)
PI: Prof. Michael Strasser
Funded by the Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung (TWF) (2022 - 2023)
PI: Marcel-Luciano Ortler
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2022-2026; FWF Project Nr. P 34504)
PI: Dr. Jasper Moernaut
Altauseer See 3D: A Limnogeological analyses of Lake Altausee
Funded by the University of Natural Resources and Life Science (BOKU) Vienna, Austria (2020-2022) through cooperation with the Walter Munk Foundation of the Oceans (WMFO), California, USA and the CHEOPS Privatstiftung.
PI: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Erwin Heine (BOKU).
Project leader Sedimentary Geology (Univ.Innsbruck): Ass.-Prof. Dr. Jasper Moernaut
Quartz-Monitor: Quartz as Monitor for Sediment Provenance from Source to Sink
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2019-2022; FWF Project Nr. P-33038)
PI: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Stalder co-PI: Univ.-Prof. Dr.Michael Stasser; Project PhD Student: Dominik Jäger
Completed projects
Hipercorig Hallstatt History (H3): Accessign a deep time window of Lake Hallstatt´s preHistory
jointly funded by the Austrian Science Foundation, University of Innsbruck, Natural History Museum Vienna, Freunde des Naturhistorischen Museum Wien and in kind contributions by GFZ-German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam, the Unviersity of Bern, Switzerland, IEG Fraunhofer and Uwitec (2021)
PI-Team: Michael Strasser; K.Kowarik, H.Reschreiter, A.Brauer, F.Anselmetti, S.Fabbri
Funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2021-2022)
PI: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Strasser
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2021-2023; FWF Project Nr. M 3065)
PI: Dr. Pauline Cornard
Tiefer Sehen: Tiroler Seen als geologische Archive
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2021-2022; FWF Project Nr. WKP 154)
PI: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Jasper Moernaut
DeadSeaQuakeRec: Developing a 220 kyr-long continuous earthquake record
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2020-2022; FWF Project Nr. M 2817)
PI: Dr. Yin Lu
Funded by the Austrian agency for international mobility and cooperation in education, science and research (OeAD) (2020-2022; Project Nr. TW 04/20)
PI: Dr. Jyh-Jaan Steven Huang, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Strasser
Itrax-To Austria: Introducing and advancing XRF-core scanning to Austria and beyond
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2020-2021; FWF Project Nr. M 2727)
PI: Dr. Jyh-Jaan, Steven Huang
GEO-STATE Tyrol:Groundbreaking Evidence of Postglacial Seismotectonic Activity in the Achen Valley, Tyrol?
Funded by the Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung (TWF) ( 2020 - 2022)
PI: Patrick Oswald, MSc
Core-XCT: X-ray Computed Tomography as new tool in Earth Science for non-destructive core analyses
Funded by Nachwuchsförderung (NWF) – University of Innsbruck (2018-2020)
PI: Dr. Jyh-Jaan Huang
ARMONIA: Harmonising administration and public institutions for trans-frontier risk prevention and disaster management
Funded by the Interreg V – Italia-Österreich (2017 - 2021)
Project partners: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Strasser
PhD Student: Patrick Oswald
Quake-Lake Carinthia: improving the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale and assessing strong earthquake recurrence in formerly-glaciated intraplate settings
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2017-2021 FWF Project Nr. P-30285
PI: Dr. Jasper Moernaut
Co-PI: Univ-Prof. Michael Strasser
Project Member: Christoph Daxer, Ariana Molenaar
SLATE - Submarine Landslides and their impact on European continental margins
Funded by the Marie-Skłodowska-Curie program, European Commission (2017 - 2021)
In collaboration with a team of 11 beneficiaries and 4 partner organizations from 7 European countries.
PhD Student: Maddalena Sammartinie (supervised by Michael Strasser & Jasper Moernaut)
Earthquake Archive in the GEological Record of the Japan Trench (EAGER-Japan)
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2016-2020; FWF Proejct Nr. 29678)
PI: Univ.-Prof. Dr. MIchael Strasser
Project Members: T. Schwestermann (PhD Student), Drs. A. Kioka and P. Cornard (Postdocs)
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S4LIDE - Austria: Studying the Significance of Subaqaueous Slides in Austrian Lakes
Funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2019-2020)
PI: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Strasser co-PI: Dr. Jasper Moernaut
Tyrol on Shaky Slopes: Investigating the role of seismicity in triggering large rockslides and rock avalanches in the Alps
Funded by the Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung (TWF) (2017 - 2020)
PI: Dr. Jasper Moernaut
Co-PI: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Strasser
Project Member: Patrick Oswald
Process understanding in subaquatic paleoseismology: Earthquake-triggered remobilization of surficial sediments at ocean margins and lacustrine basins
Funded by Nachwuchsförderung (NWF) – University of Innsbruck (2016-2018)
PI: J. Moernaut
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Pilotstudie gesteinsphysikalisches Bohrkernlogging und 360º abgerollte Bohrkernphoto Scanning Bohrkernlogging.
Funded by BBT-SE (2016)
PI: Dr. Michael Strasser
Collaborators: Dr. Ulrich Burger (BBT-SE) and Georg Stückler (MSc-student, Univ. Innsbruck)
The end-Permian mass extinction in the Southern and Eastern Alps: extinction rates vs taphonomic biases in different depositional environments
Funded by EUREGIO (2016-2019)
Collaborators: E. Kustatscher (Naturmuseum Südtirol, Bozen), M. Bernardi (MUSE – Museo delle Scienze, Trento), K. Krainer
ALPSMOTION – Alpine slow slope movement monitoring and detection with remote and proximal sensing
Funded by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/South Tyrol (2016-2019)
PI: G. Cuozzo, EURAC Bolzano
Collaborators: K. Krainer, R. Seppi (University of Pavia), P. Pasquali (Sarmap SA), A. Mondini (Perugia)
Economic aspects of rock glacier springs in areas of metamorpic rocks in the Eastern Alps
Funded by Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW) (2016-2019)
Collaborators: G. Winkler (Inst. für Erdwissenschaften, Universität Graz) and K. Krainer
Project Publiction: Winkler et al., 2019