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.