Anika Donner
Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group
PhD Project
Mid-Pleistocene climate change in Greenland: A speleothem-based approach
Research Interests
• Investigating the palaeoclimate of (sub-) arctic regions
• Understanding the role of Arctic warming in a global context
• Utilising speleothems as climate archives
• Geomorphology in periglacial and glacial environments
Short CV
2020- PhD candidate in Earth Sciences at the Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck
2016-2019 M. Sc. Applied Physical Geography at the University of Würzburg, Germany
2013-2016 B. Sc. Geography at the University of Göttingen, Germany
Other Interests
Hiking and bouldering
Publications
Moseley, G.E., Koltai, G., Baker, J.L., Wang, J., Stoll, H., Donner, A., Friedrich, L., Spötl, C., Smith, M.P., Scholz, D., Cheng, H., Hartland, A., Hejny, C., Edwards, R.L. (2025): Late Miocene Arctic warmth and terrestrial climate recorded by North Greenland speleothems. - Nature Geoscience, 18, 1252–1258.
Donner, A., Töchterle, P., Moseley, G.E. (2020): Basic meteorological observations in the Centrumsø region of northeast Greenland. Cave and Karst Science 47(2) , 104-106.
Winkler, S., Donner, A., Tintrup gen. Suntrup, A. (2021): Periglacial Landforms in Jotunheimen, Central Southern Norway, and Their Altitudinal Distribution. - In: Beylich A.A. (ed.), Landscapes and Landforms of Norway. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham.
Donner, A., Töchterle, P., Spötl, C., Hajdas, I., Li, X., R Edwards, R.L., Moseley, G.E. (2023): Cryogenic cave minerals recorded the 1889 CE melt event in northeastern Greenland. – Climate of the Past, 19, 1607-1621.