• 4.3.2021 | Petrascheck award given to Gabriella Koltai
  In 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 faculty
  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.
• 16.1.2021 | New article
  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.
• 11.12.2020 | New article
  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.
• 1.12.2020 | New FWF projects funded
  In the last round of the FWF decision board meeting two proposals from our institute were successful.
• 13.11.2020 | Teaching award for Michael Meyer
  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.
• 5.11.2020 | New FWF project funded
  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.
• 29.10.2020 | New article
  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.

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