A new publication led by Paul Wilcox provides quantitative evidence that the Last Interglacial was not only warmer than today but also resulted in an elevation-dependent warming in the Alps.

In the last round of the FWF decision board meeting two proposals from our institute were successful.

Michael Meyer from our institute together with Bastian Joachim-Mrosko from the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography received an award for outstanding teaching at our University.

The FWF recently funded a joint Austrian-Hungarian research initiative to examine the formation process of so-called cryogenic cave carbonates, which have been gaining increasing attention as robust indicators of palaeo-permafrost conditions in the subsurface.

A new publication involving alpine cave deposits explores the synchroneity of hydroclimate change between the Northern Hemisphere westerlies, the African and the South American monsoon.

A recent study involving Christoph Spötl shed new light on the causes of wide-spread extinctions on Madagascar and the Mascarene islands

We welcome Yin Lu as new Postdoc in our institute

Christoph Spötl received this year's Tiroler Landespreis für Wissenschaft and Gabriella Koltai was the recipient of the Förderpreis.