PEAK-Expert
Christoph Spötl
Focus
CAVES AND STALACTITES, HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY OF GROUNDWATER, SEDIMENT GEOCHEMISTRY
Contact
E-Mail:
christoph.spoetl@uibk.ac.at
Phone:
+43 512 507 54333
Web:
Department of Geology
Personal Homepage
Languages: English, German
Christoph Spötl studies natural climate change over long time scales. The Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group, which he founded around 20 years ago, focuses primarily on caves and their deposits (including stalactites). Christoph Spötl and his colleagues use these sediments to conduct research on regional climate and environmental history worldwide.
Focus cloud: Quaternary dynamics and climate change, Caves and speleothems, Groundwater hydrogeochemistry, Stable isotopes, Sedimentary geochemistry, Diagenesis
About
Christoph Spötl studied earth sciences in Innsbruck and Bern, conducted research at the University of Missouri and the U.S. Geological Survey, was an APART fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), won the START Prize of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and has been a professor of Quaternary research since 2004. He is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
In the news
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- Uni Innsbruck: Tiroler Landespreis für Wissenschaft für Christoph Spötl
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