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.