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