A recent study involving Christoph Spötl shed new light on the causes of wide-spread extinctions on Madagascar and the Mascarene islands

We welcome Yin Lu as new Postdoc in our institute

Christoph Spötl received this year's Tiroler Landespreis für Wissenschaft and Gabriella Koltai was the recipient of the Förderpreis.

In a joint initiative of members of both earth science institutes school kids were given hands-on insights into the exciting world of rocks, minerals and fossils.

A new lake palaeoseismology review paper

A new study published in PNAS allows to trace to onset and spread of the most recent cold event in Earth history, the Younger Dryas (12,900-11,700 years ago), using a set of extremely well dated stalagmites.

Tobias Schwestermann successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled: Event deposits archived in the geologic record of the hadal Japan Trench.

A new study opens the door towards a significantly improved thermometer based on marine and terrestrial carbonates.