Gina Moseley received the research award of the Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse for her habilitation thesis "Improving understanding of rapid climate change events and past warm periods in the Quaternary."

A new study validates seismic hazard estimates for Carinthia using a new calibrated 14.000-year lacustrine paleoseismology record in lake Wörthersee

Petroleum Experts Ltd renews 10 educational Move software licences valued at £ 1,872,218.26 donated to the Department of Geology

We welcome Alexandra Kapferer who joins our institute as a second secretary.

A new article examines Heinrich Stadial 2 with implications for the precise chronology of Greenland and Antarctic ice cores

After 45 years at the University of Innsbruck (first as student, then research assistant and professor since 1997), Karl Krainer retired end of September 2022. We thank him for his great contribution to research and teaching and wish him all the best.

A new study provides a 1000 year-long calendar of megadroughts in northeast India

In its recent issue National Geographic features ice caves in the Alps and documents the work by members of the Quaternary Research Group in this rapidly changing subsurface world.

Christoph Spötl participated in a recent study of the Little Ice Age climate in Europe

Yin Lu´s study unravels a 220 kyr-spanning event-stratigraphic record of the Dead Sea revealing contrasting roles of sediment density flows over glacial cycles

Tanguy Racine's new study provides unprecedented insights into the long-term evolution of ice in caves of the Alps

We hosted the international conference "Climate Change The Karst Record IX (KR9)"

We welcome Dr. Arne Ramisch who joins our institute as senior scientist for the Austrian Core Facility of scientific core logging and scanning

We welcome Gabriella Hirsch who joins our institute as a second secretary.

Prof. Spötl participated in a recent study on the collapse of a Neolithic culture in China

Patrick Oswald received the Best Student Paper Award

Prof. Gina Moseley is one of the 2021 Rolex Awards Laureates.

A new publication led by Michael Meyer and former postdoc Luke Gliganic reports evidence of the oldest human traces in the south of the highlands of Tibet

Michael Meyer participated in a new publication about the early Homo sapiens in the Kalahari

A new study pinpoints the cause of the extreme ice advance during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Alps.

In an online ceremony Gabriella Koltai was awarded the Walther E. Petrascheck Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

On March 1 Michael Strasser took over from Diethard Sanders as the new head of the institute, while Christoph Spötl took responsibility as the new Dean for the Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences.

A new study led by Patrick Oswald and other members of our institute presents new evidence that strong earthquakes triggered prehistoric rockslides in the Eastern Alps.

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.

In a joint initiative of members of both earth science institutes school kids were given hands-on insights into the exciting world of rocks, minerals and fossils.

A new lake palaeoseismology review paper

A new study published in PNAS allows to trace to onset and spread of the most recent cold event in Earth history, the Younger Dryas (12,900-11,700 years ago), using a set of extremely well dated stalagmites.

Tobias Schwestermann successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled: Event deposits archived in the geologic record of the hadal Japan Trench.

A new study opens the door towards a significantly improved thermometer based on marine and terrestrial carbonates.

A recent study involving Christoph Spötl addressed the role of climate change in the extinction of the Neanderthals

Kathrin Faßmer received an FWF Lise Meitner grant to study the duration of intracontinental subduction.

Christoph Spötl co-authored a recent study shedding light onto the long-standing question of ice age cycles

Steven Huang currently leads an 11-day geological fieldtrip of our students in Taiwan

Anika Donner has joined our department as a new PhD student.

Gabriella Koltai and Patrick Oswald are among this year's recipients of grants by the Tiroler Wissenschaftsfonds

In summer of 2020 we will host the KR9 conference devoted to the study of past climates using cave deposits.

Thomas Klotz was one of the recipients of a recognition award by the Eduard-Wallnöfer-Foundation

Franz Reiter received the award for Austrias best geophysical publication in 2019

Petroleum Experts Ltd renews 10 educational Move software licences valued at £ 1,341,961.89 donated to the Department of Geology

Kathleen Wendt received the Hypo Tirol award for her PhD dissertation.

A recent study by Ariana Molenaar, Jasper Moernaut and Michael Strasser discovered the first evidence of earthquake-triggered surficial remobilisation on a submarine slope at the Japan Trench margin related to the three strongest historical earthquakes of the region.

A new study led by Paul Wilcox provides the first precisely dated climate record for the Late Pleistocene of Alaska.

The newly designed exhibition of the Geology Institute was opened in a well attended ceremony in the presence of Rector T. Märk, Vice Rector B. Fügenschuh and Dean G. Kaser.

Michael Meyer excelled in explaining luminescence dating to a non-scientific audience.

Christoph Spötl received this year´s Weiss Prize for his research on alpine ice caves.

Together with Ivana Stiperski (Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences) Gina Moseley gave her "Antrittsvorlesung" as Dr. Ingeborg Hochmair professor during a celebratory event.

Petroleum Experts Ltd donates 10 educational Move software licences valued at £ 1,334,160.00 to the Department of Geology

A recent study involving Arata Kioka, Tobias Schwestermann, Jasper Moernaut and Michael Strasser revealed a link bet­ween earth­quakes and the carbon cycle.

Sinah Kilian was among the recipients of a grant by the Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung (TWF) for the realisation of finite-element modelling in the Northern Calcareous Alps.

Franz Reiter is the first author of a new investigation of the seismic activity in the Eastern Alps, including the area around Innsbruck.

Christoph Spötl participated in a recent study which led to the discovery of a new polytype of the mineral aragonite.

Michael Strasser and Dominik Jaeger will participate in IODP Expedition 358.

Kathleen Wendt is the first author of a new publication about the palaeoclimate in the southwestern USA.

A short video introduces research on alpine rock glaciers led by Prof. Karl Krainer

Mojgan Soleimani has recently joined our department as a new PhD student.

Gabriella Koltai was among this year's recipients of the University Nachwuchsförderung.

Christoph Spötl participated in a recent geoarchaeological study about one of the largest industrial complexes in the antique world.

Stephan Fuhrmann has just started as a new PhD student at our department

We welcome Jana Molenaar as new PhD student.

We welcome Hannah Braun to our institute. She will work as lab technician in the Austrian Core Facility for scientific core analyses.

Yuri Dublyansky is the lead author of a recent study on Palaeolithic cave paintings in the Ural Mountains, published in Scientific Reports (Nature).

Charlotte Honiat has just started as a new PhD student at our department

Dr. Moseley begun her 5 year term as Ingeborg Hochmair Professor

Dr. Gina Moseley receives the highest award for early-career scientists in Austria

We welcome Dr. Stacy Caroline (previously Oxford University) and Tanguy Racine (M. Sc. Imperial College London) to the institute.

The Senate has approved and published the new Bachelor curriculum in Earth Sciences which will become effective October 1, 2018.

Michael Meyer was one of this year´s awardees of the "Preis des Fürstentums Liechtenstein", one of the highest awards of the University of Innsbruck.

MSc students Jonas Keller and Dominik Jaeger recently took part in the CLSI@Sea workshop convened during IODP Expedition 380 off the coast of Japan.

Michael Meyer and Luke Gliganic are offering a special course on luminescence dating

Yuri Dublyansky, Paul Töchterle and Christoph Spötl are part of an international team which published a recent paper in Nature Scientific Reports about the Last Interglacial in the Alps highlighting the vulnerability of alpine environments to climate warming.

We welcome Prof. Jeffrey Munroe to our department who is also giving a special lecture on the Geology of North America, open to all students.

A new study led by Jasper Moernaut suggests that larger earthquakes occur more periodically.

Nature Communications features a paper co-authored by Michael Strasser investigating the impact of tectonically driven sedimentological processes on the marine carbon cycling.