News
New Paper on bioturbation in a hadal trench
For the first time, we report trace fossils in a hadal trench and document biogenic colonization successions within gravity flow deposits in IODP cores from the Japan Trench,
New Review Paper on Lacustrine Records of Past Seismic Shaking
Jasper Moernaut together with other international leaders in the field of Lake Paleoseismology, contributed a review paper summarizing the principles of quantitative lacustrine paleoseismology in "Understanding Earthquakes"
New Paper in Geology
We report geological evidence for repeated slip-to-the-trench style megathrust earthquakes at the Japan Trench
New Paper in Catena
We contributed XRF corescanning to a study by Croation Collegues reconstrusting Holocene paleoenvironmental changes recorded in the sediments of the karst Krka River estuary (eastern Adriatic coast, Croatia)
New Paper in Deep Sea Research
We contribute to a study characterizing the sediments in the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Ocean in Mariana Trench
New Paper in Nature Communications
A new study resulting from the Japan Trench IODP Expedition reports dissolved organic carbon (DOC) signatures in the hadal trench bottom water.
New Paper in Global and Planetary Change
We contributed to a new study on event deposits in IODP cores from the South China Sea revealing clustered slumping between 0.6 and 0.4 Ma
New Paper in PAGES Magazine
We contribute a paper highlighting the achievments of IODP Expedition 386 Japan Trench Paleoseismology to the PAGES special issue on Scientific Drilling in Paleosciences
Congratulation Dr. Daxer
On September 30 2024 Christoph Daxer successfully defended his PhD dissertation
Best Poster Award for Marcel Ortler
The Poster "Signals of two earthquakes at Lake Altaussee" was award with the "Earth Surface Dynamics" Best Poster Award during the Pengeo /DEUQUA 2024 Conference in Salzburg
New Paper in Terra Nova
We have re-evaluated the famous Annot Sandstone (where the Bouma sequence was defined) in terms of flow criticality. The results revealing advanced process-understanding of deep-marine depositional environments are now published in Terra Nova
New Paper in Quaternary Science Reviews
Charlotte Pizer´s latest research integrating onshore-offshore paleoseismic record reveal multiple slip styles on the plate interface, central Hikurangi subduction margin.
Congratulation Lukas
Lukas Loaker completed his MSc study with a thesis entitled: Central Japan Trench Event Stratigraphy
New Paper in Marine Geology
The first comprehensive event-stratigraphy results from IODP coring in the hadal Japan Trench are now published online in a paper led by Michi Strasser
Congratulation Stephanie
Stephanie Benischke completed her MSc study with a thesis entitled: Reconstructing Holocene Lake Level Changes at Lake Llanquihue (South-Central Chile) based on field mapping, seismic-stratigraphic analysis and lacustrine sediment core analysis
New Paper in G-cubed
Pauline Cornard´s sediment provenance analyses reveal new insights into tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Nankai Accrestionary Primes, now published as new paper in G-cubed
New Paper in Nature Geoscience
Climatic pacing of extreme Nile floods during the North African Humid Period
New Paper in Marine & Petroleum Geology
New insights on detrital component and carbon burial in the eastern-central Mid-Adriatic deep
Congratulations Dr. Molenaar
On June 26 2024 Ariana Molenaar successfully defended her PhD.
New Paper in G-cubed
Jana Molenaar´s latest paper on Earthquake-Triggered Soft-Sediment Deformation Structures in Lake Sediments is now published
New Papers in PAGES Magazine
Katleen Wils co-edited a special issue on (Paleo)-Earthquake and -Tsunami Science now published in PAGES Magazin, also featuring an article by Charlotte Pizer et al., on Combining onshore-offshore paleoseismic records to test for synchronicity of coastal deformation
New Paper in Sedimentologika
We document contrasting sedimentary and long-lasting geochemical imprints of seismic shaking in a small, groundwater-fed lake basin (Klopeiner See, Eastern European Alps)
New Paper in Scientific Drilling
We present the Late Glacial to Holocene Late Pleistocene to Holocene event stratigraphy of Lake Hallstatt revealed by the Hipercorig drilling system and borehole logging
Congratulation Markus
Markus Niederstätter completed his MSc study with a thesis entitled: Limnogeological investigations of the Montiggler Seen reveal paleoseismic evidence for surface rupturing earthquake in South Tyrol
New Nature Communications Paper
This first scientific results from IODP Expeditoin 386, co-lead by Michi Strasser, document earthquake-enhanced dissolved carbon
cycles in ultra-deep ocean sediments
Arne Ramisch introduces himself
A new short video about Arne, the Austrian Core Facility and Core Logging Science Applications
Welcome Mishelle as new PhD Student
We welcome Mishelle Muthre as new PhD student in our research group
Welcome Katleen as new Post Doc
We welcome Katleen Wils as new Post Doc in our research group
A documentary movie about the Walter Munk Lake Altausee Project
See our contribution to the interdisciplinary Altauseer See Expedition by the Walter Funk Foundation in the newly released documentary movie
Best Thesis Awards for Anja and Patrick
Congratulaion to Anja Grießer and Patrick Oswald for winning the 2023 Best Master and PhD Thesis Award from the Facutly Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences at University of Innsbruck
HypoTirol-Dissertationspreis 2023
Congratulaion to Patrick Oswald for winning a 2023 Hypo-Tirol Best Dissertation Prize
Welcome Valentina as new PhD Student
We welcome Valentina Moreno Allende as new PhD student in our research group
New FWF projects funded!
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) granted a new project led by our research group to study subduction zone earthquake cycles in the Japan Trench
New Paper on Quantitative Lacustrine Paleoseismology
This study by PhD student Christoph Daxer presents a new calibrated 14.000-year lacustrine paleoseismology record in lake Wörthersee that allows validation of the seismic hazard cuve using robust observational data.
Obergurgl Group Retreat 2022
On 7 to 9 October, we held the second Sedimentary Geology Group Retreat at the Universitätszentrum Obergurgl. Stefano Fabbri from the Université Savoie Mont Blanc joined as our external guest and showed his research on tsuname vs storm deposits in the Lesser Antilles. We enjoyed great and diverse scientific discussion, alternated with hiking and fireplace discussion.
Review Paper on Event Deposits in Lake Sediments
We participated in writing a community paper presenting a state-of-the-art review of Event Deposits in Lake Sediments
Tiefe(r) Se(h)en: Public Talks
Last week, we had a great closure of the Tiefe(r) Se(h)en science communication project. Each evening we visited different towns (Oetz, Biberwier, Reutte, Maurach and Kufstein) to report on our project and what the children investigated as well as a scientific lecture from Michael Strasser or Jasper Moernaut.
New paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
The latest paper by postdoc Yin Lu, just published in EPSL, unravels a 220kyr-spanning event-stratigraphic record of the hypersaline Dead Sea to reconstruct different behavior of sediment density flows (overflows and underflows) during interglacials and glacials, respectively. Climate change is inferred to have affected the flows via changing salinity-density profile of lake brine.
New paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
In this study by Schwestermann et al. just published in EPSL, we unravel a 2000-year record of event-dominated transport, provenance, and burial of organic carbon along the entire Japan Trench
In the news: Spuren massiver Bergstürze in Tiroler Alpenseen gefunden
Der Standard reports about our research investigating Tyrolian lakes to learn more about past earthquakes and rockslides.
Two new FWF projects funded!
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) granted two new projects led by our research group
New training and collaboration project with Taiwan
The Austrian agency for international mobility and cooperation in education, science and research (OeAD) is funding our new project EAGER-TAIWAN-TRAINING
New micro XRF core-scanning application to assess heavy metal pollution
A new Scientific Reports article led by Jyh-Jaan Steven Huang presents a novel, simple, fast, and inexpensive method to monitor heavy metal pollution that uses cation-exchange resin sachets and the micro-XRF core-scanning technique, as valuable new tool in environmental monitoring and forensics.