Research

QuakeCycle Japan: Earthquake Archive in the Geological Record of the Japan Trench: Testing the "earthquake supercycle" hypothesis with statistically robust paleoseismic data

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2023-2027; FWF Project Nr. P 36809)

PI: Prof. Michael Strasser

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4D- Event Stratigraphy Lake Hallstatt: Developing a Data Science-driven methodology for advanced event stratigraphy in Lake Hallstatt

Funded by the Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung (TWF) (2022 - 2023)

PI: Marcel-Luciano Ortler

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QuakeScene Chile: Evaluating megathrust earthquake scenarios in South Central Chile using new strategies in lacustrine paleoseismology

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2022-2026; FWF Project Nr. P 34504)

PI: Dr. Jasper Moernaut

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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

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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

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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

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S4LIDE - Hallstatt: Studying the Significance of Subaquatic Slides in Lake Hallstatt (UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape, Austria)

Funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2021-2022)

PI: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Strasser 

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Flow-Dynamic-Fan: FLOW-process related deposits: a new tool to better assess the morphoDYNAMIC of deep-water submarine FAN environments

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)  (2021-2023; FWF Project Nr. M 3065)

PI: Dr. Pauline Cornard

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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

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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

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EAGER-TAIWAN-TRAINING: Extreme events and related consequences on humanenvironmental interaction Archived in the GEologicalRecord: a TRAINING network of Austria, Taiwan, and beyond

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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)

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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