News and Events
- Graduate Seminar: David Schultz (University of Manchester)
Title: Europe’s Elevated Mixed Layer: New Insights into the Spanish Plume
Date/Time/Location: 28 January 2026 / 12:00 / online only
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- Graduate Seminar: Naomi Ochwat
Title: From Antarctic sea ice unleashing glaciers to Alaskan icefalls releasing ogives: Investigations of glacier processes using remote sensing, field data, and numerical modeling
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 12:00; location: Seminar room 60819 on the 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Fiona Fix-Hewitt
Title: Heat, Dust, and Thunderstorms: Co-Occurrence of Atmospheric Deserts and Extreme Weather over Europe
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 12:00; location: Seminar room 60819 on the 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Marco Giometto, Columbia University
Title: A Numerical Database of Hurricane Boundary Layer Winds and Scaling Analysis
Date/Time/Location: 07 January 2026, 12:00 a.m., seminar room 60819; 8th floor of Bruno Sander Haus, Innrain 52f
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- TEAMx documentary
"Forschung XL in den Alpen: Wettervorhersagen und Klimamodelle verbessern"
https://youtu.be/HKSkasUvd90
At the moment, there is only a German version, but an English version will follow at the beginning of the year 2026. - Graduate Seminar: Julia Shates
Title: "Multi-measurement perspectives on precipitating cloud microphysics"
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 5 p.m.!!!; location: Computer room 60818 on the 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Ivana Stiperski (ACINN)
Title: "Turbulence anisotropy, pressure and turbulence organization"
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 12:00 noon; location: 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - CANCELLED: Graduate Seminar: Christoph Mitterer (Abteilung Krisen- und Gefahrenmanagement, Land Tirol)
Title: "From Gut Feelings to Gigabytes: Avalanche Forecasting in the Digital Age"
Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 12:00 noon; location: 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Nikolina Ban (ACINN)
Title: "High-Resolution Climate Modeling - Mountain Climate at the Kilometer-Scale Resolution"
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 12:00 noon; location: 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - MSc Defensio: Matilda Achaab
Title: "Assessing Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides Emissions Based on Eddy Covariance Observations in Innsbruck"
Date/Time/Location: 20th November 2025, 10:30 a.m., computer room 60818; 8th floor of Bruno Sander Haus
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- Graduate Seminar: Manuela Lehner and Mathias Rotach (ACINN)
Title: "TEAMx Observational Campaign"
Date/Time/Location: 12th November 2025, 12:00 a.m., seminar room 60819; 8th floor Bruno Sander Haus
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- Graduate Seminar: Shaoting Ren (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Title: "Inferring Glacier Meteorology Based on Remote Sensing and Physical Modeling — highlighting recent advances in integrating satellite observations with physical models to enhance our understanding of mountain glacier meteorology"
Wednesday, November 05, 2025; location: 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - MSc Defensio: Sebastian Dobesberger
Title: "Performance Evaluation of the ECMWF Lightning Parameter with ALDIS lightning measurements"
Date/Time/Location: 30 October 2025, 4:00 p.m., on-line only; If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- MSc Defensio: Loren Schaeffler
"Differences of lightning over land and sea in the Mediterranean region"
Date/Time/Location: 30 October 2025, 1:30 p.m., seminar room 60819; 8th floor of Bruno Sander Haus
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- Graduate Seminar: Christian Wild (ACINN)
Title: "Probing Thwaites Glacier to Understand Polar System Change"
Wednesday, October 29, 2025; location: 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain, 52f, and on-line.
If you want to join on-line e-mail us at atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at - Graduate Seminar: Mohamed Foudad (University of Reading)
Title: Clear-Air Turbulence in a Changing Climate
Date/Time/Location: 22nd October 2025, 12:00 a.m., seminar room 60819; 8th floor Bruno Sander Haus
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- Graduate Seminar: Fabienne Lohou, Emilie Bernard, Sylvain Dupont, and Alice Maison
MOSAI project: motivations, objectives, strategy and some results
Date/Time/Location: 15th October 2025, 12:00 a.m., seminar room 60819; 8th floor Bruno Sander Haus
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- MSc Defensio: Hannah Scheiber
Boundary Layer Structures above Innsbruck: Measured by a Passive Microwave Radiometer
Date/Time/Location: 15th October 2025, 10:15 a.m., computer room 60818; 8th floor Bruno Sander Haus
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- MSc Defensio: Barbara Ströbel
Investigating the Impact of Urban Characteristics on Meteorological Conditions in and around Innsbruck
Date/Time/Location: 6th October 2025, 09:30 a.m., Seminar Room 60819; 8th floor Bruno Sander Haus
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- Prizes of the faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences – University of Innsbruck
Prizes will be awarded in two categories for the 2024/25 academic year:
- Best assessed dissertation
- Best assessed master's thesis - MSc Defensio: David Kurz
"Unravelling the bias between open- and enclosed-path EC systems under (semi-)arid conditions"
Date/Time/Location: September 22, 2025, 09:00 a.m., Seminar room 60819; 8th floor Bruno Sander Haus
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- MSc Defensio: Isobel Curtin
"SR 60819, “Should Alaska Have a Reference Glacier in the North? Comparing McCall Glacier and the Alaskan Benchmark Glaciers”"
Date/time/location: 27 August 2025, 11:00 a.m. / Seminar room 60819, 8th floor of Bruno-Sander-Haus, Innrain 52f, and on-line (if you want to join on-line please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- MSc Defensio: Joep van Noort
"Should Alaska Have a Reference Glacier in the North? Comparing McCall Glacier and the Alaskan Benchmark Glaciers"
Date/time/location: 18 August 2025, 11:00 a.m. / on-line only (if you want to join please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at )
- MSc Defensio: Ilga Staudinger
Three-dimensional heat, momentum and TKE budget equations in a deep katabatic wind layer over a mid-latitude glacier tested with observational and model data
Date/Time/Location: 1st August 2025, 11:00am, Computer Room 60818; 8th floor Bruno Sander Haus
If you want to join online please contact atmosphaere@uibk.ac.at
- Job announcement: University Assistant (postdoc) (substitute employee)
Maternity leave position - for 1 year
Full time, start in fall 2025 - 1 September 2025
Duties: Research, teaching (4 h per semesters), administration and outreach