News

New Paper in The Innovation Geoscience
We contributed to the study published by Chu et al., discovering earthquake-induced redistribution and reburial of microbes in the Japan Trench

New Nature Communications Paper
This first scientific results from IODP Expeditoin 386, co-lead by Michi Strasser, document earthquake-enhanced dissolved carbon
cycles in ultra-deep ocean sediments

Arne Ramisch introduces himself
A new short video about Arne, the Austrian Core Facility and Core Logging Science Applications

Welcome Mishelle as new PhD Student
We welcome Mishelle Muthre as new PhD student in our research group

Welcome Katleen as new Post Doc
We welcome Katleen Wils as new Post Doc in our research group

A documentary movie about the Walter Munk Lake Altausee Project
See our contribution to the interdisciplinary Altauseer See Expedition by the Walter Funk Foundation in the newly released documentary movie

Best Thesis Awards for Anja and Patrick
Congratulaion to Anja Grießer and Patrick Oswald for winning the 2023 Best Master and PhD Thesis Award from the Facutly Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences at University of Innsbruck

HypoTirol-Dissertationspreis 2023
Congratulaion to Patrick Oswald for winning a 2023 Hypo-Tirol Best Dissertation Prize

Welcome Valentina as new PhD Student
We welcome Valentina Moreno Allende as new PhD student in our research group

New FWF projects funded!
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) granted a new project led by our research group to study subduction zone earthquake cycles in the Japan Trench

New Paper on Quantitative Lacustrine Paleoseismology
This study by PhD student Christoph Daxer presents a new calibrated 14.000-year lacustrine paleoseismology record in lake Wörthersee that allows validation of the seismic hazard cuve using robust observational data.

Obergurgl Group Retreat 2022
On 7 to 9 October, we held the second Sedimentary Geology Group Retreat at the Universitätszentrum Obergurgl. Stefano Fabbri from the Université Savoie Mont Blanc joined as our external guest and showed his research on tsuname vs storm deposits in the Lesser Antilles. We enjoyed great and diverse scientific discussion, alternated with hiking and fireplace discussion.

New paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
In this study by Schwestermann et al. just published in EPSL, we unravel a 2000-year record of event-dominated transport, provenance, and burial of organic carbon along the entire Japan Trench

In the news: Spuren massiver Bergstürze in Tiroler Alpenseen gefunden
Der Standard reports about our research investigating Tyrolian lakes to learn more about past earthquakes and rockslides.

Two new FWF projects funded!
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) granted two new projects led by our research group

Congratulation Marcel, MSc
Marcel Ortler successfully completed and defended his MSc thesis entitled Sedimentary record of historical flood events in Lake Millstatt (Carinthia, Austria).

New Paper on Paleoseismology
Michi Strasser contributed to a new study compiling a database of potential paleoseismic evidence in Switzerland

Taiwan Excursion 2020
We are participating in the Uni-Innsbruck Geological Field Excursion to Taiwan organized by Steven Huang