Aktuell
- 4.3.2021 | Petrascheck award given to Gabriella KoltaiIn an online ceremony Gabriella Koltai was awarded the Walther E. Petrascheck Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1.3.2021 | New leaderships at the institute and the facultyOn 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.
- 16.1.2021 | New articleA 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.
- 11.12.2020 | New articleA 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.
- 1.12.2020 | New FWF projects fundedIn the last round of the FWF decision board meeting two proposals from our institute were successful.
- 13.11.2020 | Teaching award for Michael MeyerMichael 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.
- 5.11.2020 | New FWF project fundedThe 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.
- 29.10.2020 | New articleA new publication involving alpine cave deposits explores the synchroneity of hydroclimate change between the Northern Hemisphere westerlies, the African and the South American monsoon.
Events
Climate Change: The Karst Record IX (KR9)