Professor

Christoph Spötl

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Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group

Quaternary dynamics and climate change
Caves and speleothems
Groundwater hydrogeochemistry
Stable isotopes
Sedimentary geochemistry
Diagenesis

Short CV
2004- Professor for Quaternary Research
1999 START award
1997 Habilitation
1994-1997 APART research fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
1992-1993 Postdoc at the U.S. Geological Survey, National Center in Reston, Virginia
1991-1992 Postdoc at the University of Missouri-Columbia
1991 PhD in Geology, University of Berne
1987 MSc in Earth Sciences, University of Innsbruck

Professional activities
2025- Chairman of the Tyrolian Caving Club
2023- Editor-in-Chief of The Innovation Geoscience
2021- Dean Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences
2015-2018 Member of the ICDP Science Advisory Group
2013-2025 Member of the Commission for Geosciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2012-2018 Vice chair of the National Committee Geo/Hydro-Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2010-2014 Vice President of the German Quaternary Association
2009-2014 Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the GFZ Potsdam
2008-2024 President of the Austrian Speleological Association
2007-2010 President of the Austrian Geological Society
2004-2013 Dean of Studies Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences
2004- Editor of Die Höhle
2002-2004 Editor of Sedimentology

Awards
2025 Badge of honor of the Austrian Speleological Association
2024 Wissenschaftspreis der Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse
2020 Honorary member of the Geological Society of Austria
2020 Tiroler Landespreis für Wissenschaft
2019 Weiss award (FWF)
2013 Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2009 Corresponding member Austrian Academy of Sciences

Publications

Sürmelihindi, G., Passchier, C., Trümper, M., Heide, T., Spötl, C., Scholz, D., Weber, M. & Hawemann, F. (2026): Seeing Roman life through water: Exploring Pompeii's public baths via carbonate deposits. – PNAS, 123, e2517276122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2517276122.

Sancho, C., Belmonte, Á., Leunda, M., Luetscher, M., Spötl, C., López-Moreno, J.I., Oliva-Urcía, B., López-Martinéz, J., Moreno, A., Bartolomé, M. (2025): Unprecedented cave ice melt in the last 6100 years in the Central Pyrenees (A294 ice cave). – The Cryosphere, 19, 6283-6300, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-6283-2025.

Wendt, K.A., Carolin, S., Buizert, C., Steidle, S.D., Edwards, R.L., Moseley, G.E., Dublyansky, Y., Cheng, H., He, C., Warner, M.S.C., Spötl, C. (2025): Controls on the southwest USA hydroclimate over the last six glacial-interglacial cycles. – Nature Communications, 1 6:10007, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64963-1

Šarc, F., Powolny, T., Martín Pérez, A., Košir, A., Gebus-Czupyt, B., Tyc, A., Ciesielczuk, J., Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Otoničar, B. (2025): Dedolomitization-driven karstification and speleogenesis in central Slovenia: mineralogical and geochemical insights. – Sedimentary Geology, 490, 106986, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2025.106986 

Spötl, C. (2025): Die Eisentwicklung in der Beilsteineishöhle (Stmk.) während der vergangenen 200 Jahre im Licht historischer Berichte. – Die Höhle, 76, 131-147.

Spötl, C., Zhang, H., Koltai, G., Weigner, T. (2025): Die Wasserfallwinkelhöhle: Eine hochalpine, tropfsteinführende Karsthöhle im Glocknergebiet (Kärnten). – Die Höhle, 76, 94-107.

Pacher, M., Spötl, C. (2025): Höhlenbärenfunde in der Eisriesenwelt (Tennengebirge, Salzburg). – Die Höhle, 76, 148-157.

Audra, P., Vattano, M., Madonia, G., Sauro, F., Cailhol, D., Cappelletti, M., Columbu, A., Koltai, G., Temovski, M., Fernández Cortés, Á., Gázquez-Sánchez, F., Spötl, C., Nobécourt, J.-C., Galli, E., De Waele, J. (2025): The Monte Kronio hydrothermal cave system, Sicily, Italy. – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Speleology, Belo Horizonte 2025, 2, 140-145.

Pisani, L., Koltai, G., Dublyansky, Y., Kleine, B.I., Whitehouse, M., Scrzypek, E., Carbone, C., Spötl, C., Antonellini, M., Bezerra, F.H., De Waele, J. (2023): Hydrothermal silicification and hypogene dissolution of an exhumed Neoproterozoic carbonate sequence in Brazil: Insights from fluid inclusion microthermometry and silicon-oxygen isotopes. – Basin Research, 35, 1102-1127.

Zhang, T.-T., Li, T.-Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Shen, C.-C., Spötl, C., Li, H.-C., Han, L.-Y., Li, J.-Y., Huang, C.-X., Zhao, X. (2017): Stalagmite-inferred centennial variability of the Asian summer monsoon in southwest China between 58 and 79 ka BP. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 160, 1-12.

Spötl, C., Gaugler, T., Racine, T., Erler, R. (2023): Der Natureispalast, eine Gletscherhöhle im Tuxer Ferner (Zillertaler Alpen, Tirol). – Die Höhle, 74, 17-29.

Spötl, C., Höfer-Öllinger, G., Hirtner, G., Zhang, H. (2023): Der Brunnstollen im Mönchsberg der Stadt Salzburg und seine Versinterung. – Die Höhle, 74, 82-94.

Holm-Alwmark, S., Alwmark, C., Ferrière, L., Meier, M.M.M., Lindström, S., Kenny, G.G., Sheldon, E., Schweigert, G., Spötl, C., Whitehouse, M.J., Hofmann, B.A. (2021): Shocked quartz in distal ejecta from the Ries impact event (Germany) found at ~180 km distance, near Bernhardzell, eastern Switzerland. – Scientific Reports, 11:7438, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86685-2.

Spötl, C. & Boch, R. (2019): Uranium series dating of speleothems. – In: White, W. B., Culver, D.C., Pipan, T. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Caves. 3rd ed., 1096-1102, London, Academic Press.

Pacher, M., Erler, R. & Spötl, C. (2018): Funde von holozänen Braunbären und Steinböcken in Höhlen des Tuxertales (Tirol). – Die Höhle, 69, 90-99.

Spötl, C. (2018): Aktuelle Wachstumsdynamik der Eisstalagmiten in der Hundsalm Eis- und Tropfsteinhöhle (Tirol). – Die Höhle, 69, 84-89.

Jiang, X., Wang, X., He, Y., Hu, H.-M., Li, Z., Spötl, C., Shen, C.-C. (2016): Precisely dated multidecadally resolved Asian summer monsoon dynamics 113.5-86.6 thousand years ago. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 143, 1-12.

Spötl, C. & Gruber, A. (2015): Geologie. – In: Angerberg Buch (Red. H. Osl, P. Lechner), 16-25, Angerberg (Eigenverlag Gemeinde Angerberg).

Bartolomé, M., Sancho, C., Osácar, C., Moreno, A., Leunda, M., Spötl, C., Luetscher, M., López-Martinénz, J., Belmonte, A.: Characteristics of cryogenic carbonates in a Pyrenean ice cave (northern Spain). – Geogaceta, 58, 107-110.

Reitschuler, C., Lins, P., Schwarzenauer, T., Spötl, C., Wagner, A.O., Illmer, P. (2015): New undescribed lineages of non-extremophilic archaea form a homogeneous and dominant element within alpine moonmilk microbiomes. – Geomicrobiology Journal, 32, 890-902.

Dong, X., Zhang, X., Zhang, H., Rasmussen, S.O., Zhang, R., Cai, Y., Huang, S., Kathayat, G., Pérez-Mejías, C., Zong, B., Liu, D., Duan, P., Svensson, A., Spötl, C., Li, Y., Niu, X., Wang, J., Li, H., Ning, Y., Xu, Y., Wang, X., Stríkis, N.M., Cruz, F.W., Sinha, A., Werner, M., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2025): Interstadial diversity of East Asian summer monsoon linked to changes of the Northern Westerlies. – Nature Communications, 16:7765, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63057-2.

Bernal-Wormull, J.L., Moreno, A., Dublyansky, Y., Spötl, C., Giménez, R., Pérez-Mejías, C., Bartolomé, M., Arriolabengoa, M., Iriarte, E., Cacho, I., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2025): Temperature variability in southern Europe over the past 16500 years constrained by speleothem fluid inclusion water isotopes. – Climate of the Past, 21, 1235-1261.

Zhang, R., Zhang, H., Spötl, C., Dong, X., Pérez-Mejíasa, C., Li, H., Cheng, P., Cruz, F.W., Utida, G., Li, Y., Wang, M., Li, Y., Jia, X., Ning, Y., Cheng, H. (2025): Interhemispheric monsoon response to bipolar forcing during Heinrich Stadial 4. – Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115517.

Fursman, M., Warter, V., Janse, M., Renema, W., Spötl, C., Arndt, I., Evans, D. & Müller, W. (2025): Ten years of Tridacna sclerochemistry at up to daily resolution from a controlled aquarium environment – Records of habitat change, induced seasonality and growth variability. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 675, 113022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113022.

Sürmelihindi, G., Passchier, C., Wilson, A. & Spötl, C. (2025): The Roman water management of Arles as read in aqueduct carbonate archives. – Geoarchaeology, 40:e70020.

Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Racine, T., Zhang, H. & Cheng, H. (2025): Response of Alpine cave glaciation to millennial-scale climate variability during the last glacial period. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 365, 109490.

Affek, H.P., Barkan, E., Tal, Y., Steidle, S.D., Wendt, K.A., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Fishman, E. & Dublyansky, Y. (2025): 17Oexcess in Devils Hole calcite: an indicator of equilibrium fractionation and paleo moisture sources. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 667, 119528, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119528.

Harb, I., Spötl, C. (2015): Altersdatierungen von Menschenknochen aus der Tischoferhöhle, Tirol. – Die Höhle, 66, 138-140.

Schindlbacher, A., Borken, W., Djukic, I., Brandstätter, C., Spötl, C., Wanek, W. (2015): Contribution of carbonate weathering to the CO2 efflux from temperate forest soils. – Biogeochemistry, 124, 273-290.

Reischer, M., Bichler, B., Spötl, C., Höfer-Öllinger, G., Wyhlidal, S. (2015): Karst hydrogeology of the Untersberg massif and its interaction with the porous aquifer in the adjacent Salzburg Basin. – Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 108, 68-81.

Preto, N., Breda, A., Dal Corso, J., Spötl, C., Zorzi, F., Frisia, S. (2015): Primary dolomite in the Late Triassic Travenanzes Formation, Dolomites, Northern Italy: Facies control and possible bacterial influence. – Sedimentology, 62, 697-716.

Meckler, A.N., Affolter, S., Dublyansky, Y.V., Krüger, Y., Vogel, N., Bernasconi, S.M., Frenz, M., Kipfer, R., Leuenberger, M., Spötl, C., Carolin, S., Cobb, K.M., Moerman, Adkins, J.F., J., Fleitmann, D. (2015): Glacial-interglacial temperature change in the tropical West Pacific: A comparison of stalagmite-based paleo-thermometers. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 127, 90-116.

Moseley, G.E., Spötl, C., Cheng, H., Boch, R., Min, A., Edwards, R. L. (2015): Termination-II interstadial/stadial climate change recorded in two stalagmites from the north European Alps. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 127, 229-239.

Zerboni, A., Trombino, L., Frigerio, C., Livio, F., Berlusconi, A., Michetti, A.M., Rodnight, H., Spötl, C. (2015): The loess-paleosol sequence at Monte Netto: a record of climate change in the Upper Pleistocene of the central Po Plain, northern Italy. - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 15, 1329-1350.

Mischel, S.A., Scholz, D., Spötl, C. (2015): d18O values of cave drip water: a promising proxy for the reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation? - Climate Dynamics, 45, 3035-3050.

Bartolomé, M., Moreno, A., Sancho, C., Stoll, H.M., Cacho, I., Spötl, C., Belmonte, A., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Hellstrom, J. (2015): Hydrological change in Southern Europe responding to increasing North Atlantic overturning during Greenland Stadial 1. – PNAS, 112, 6568-6572.

Nicolussi, K., Spötl, C., Thurner, A., Reimer, P. (2015): Precise radiocarbon dating of the giant Köfels landslide (Eastern Alps, Austria). – Geomorphology, 243, 87-91.

Spötl, C., Mangini, A., Cheng, H. (2015): Radiometric constraints on the age of the Hötting Breccia (Innsbruck, Austria). – Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, 47/48, 135-146.

Plan, L., Schober, A., Scholz, D., Spötl, C., Pruner, P., Bosak, O. (2015): Speleogenesis of the Hermanshöhle cave system (Austria): Constraints from 230Th/U-dating and palaeomagnetic analysis. – International Journal of Speleology, 44, 315-326.

Dublyansky, Y., Spötl, C. (2015): Condensation-corrosion speleogenesis above a carbonate-saturated aquifer: Devils Hole Ridge, Nevada. – Geomorphology, 229, 17-29.

Cremaschi, M., Zerboni, A., Nicosia, C., Negrino, F., Rodnight, H., Spötl, C. (2015): Age, soil-forming processes, and archaeology of the loess deposits at the Apennine margin of the Po Plain (northern Italy). New insights from the Ghiardo area. – Quaternary International, 376, 173-188.

Luetscher, M., Boch, R., Sodemann, H., Spötl, C., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Frisia, S., Hof, F., Müller, W. (2015): North Atlantic storm track changes during the Last Glacial Maximum recorded by Alpine speleothems. – Nature Communications, 6, 6344.

Wassenburg, J.A., Dietrich, S., Fietzke, J., Fohlmeister, J., Jochum, K.P., Scholz, D., Richter, D.K., Sabaoui, A., Spötl, C., Lohmann, G., Andrae, M.O., Immenhauser, A. (2016): Reorganization of the North Atlantic Oscillation during early Holocene deglaciation. – Nature Geoscience, 9, 602-605.

Treyer, A., Spötl, C. (2016): Die Eisentwicklung in der Rossalm-Eishöhle (Südtirol). – Die Höhle, 67, 88-96.

Strauhal, T., Prager, C., Millen, B., Spötl, C., Zangerl, C., Brandner, R. (2016): Aquifer geochemistry of crystalline rocks and Quaternary deposits in a high altitude alpine environment (Kauner Valley, Austria). – Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 109, 29-44.

Moseley, G.E., Dublyansky, Y.V., Edwards, R.L., Wendt, K.A., Pythoud, M., Zhang, P., Cheng, H., , Lu, Y., Boch, R., Spötl, C. (2016): Response to comments on "Reconciliation of the Devils Hole climate record with orbital forcing". – Science, 354, 296e.

Reitschuler, C., Spötl, C., Hofmann, K., Wagner, A.O., Illmer, P. (2016): Archaeal distribution in moonmilk deposits from Alpine caves and their ecophysiological potential. - Microbial Ecology, 71, 686-699.

Spötl, C., Fohlmeister, J., Cheng, H., Boch, R. (2016): Modern aragonite formation at near-freezing conditions in an alpine cave, Carnic Alps, Austria. – Chemical Geology, 435, 60-70.

Neuhuber, S., Gier, S., Hohenegger, J., Wolfgring, E., Spötl, C., Strauss, P., Wagreich, M. (2016): Palaeoenvironmental changes in the northwestern Tethys during the Late Campanian Radotruncana calcarata Zone: implications from stable isotopes and geochemistry. – Chemical Geology, 420, 280-29.

Passchier, C., Sürmelihindi, G., Spötl, C. (2016): A high-resolution palaeoenvironmental record from carbonate deposits in the Roman aqueduct of Patara, SW Turkey, from the time of Nero. – Scientific Reports, 6:28704.

Mair, D., Chwatal, W., Reimer, P.J., Spötl, C.: Quaternary evolution of the inner Riss Valley, Tyrol (Austria) - an integrated sedimentological and geophysical case study. – Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 109/2, 277-288.

Hoffmann, D.L., Rogerson, M., Spötl, C., Luetscher, M., Vance, D., Osborne, A.N., Fello, N.M., Moseley, G.E. (2016): Timing and causes of North African wet phases during the last glacial period and implications for modern human migration. – Scientific Reports, 6:36367.

Spötl, C., Desch, A., Dublyansky, Y., Plan, L., Mangini, A. (2016): Hypogene speleogenesis in dolomite host rock by CO2-rich fluids, Kozak Cave (southern Austria). – Geomorphology, 255, 39-48.

Dublyansky, Y., Moseley, G.E., Spötl, C., Liakhnitsky, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L. (2016): Constraining the ages of the late Palaeolithic cave paintings in the Shulgan-Tash Cave, Southern Urals, Russia. – In: Ancient sanctuaries: Archaeology, ritual, mythology. Materials of International Scientific Symposium, Ufa 2015 (Institute for History Publishing House), 120-125.

Fairchild, I.J., Fleming, E.J., Bao, H., Benn, D.I., Boomer, I., Dublyansky, Y.V., Halverson, G.P., Hambrey, M.J., Hendy, C., McMillan, E.A., Spötl, C., Stevenson, C.T.E., Wynn, P.M. (2016): Continental carbonate facies of a Neoproterozoic panglaciation, north-east Svalbard. – Sedimentology, 63, 443-497.

Spötl, C., Plan, L., Christian, E. (2016): Höhlen und Karst in Österreich. - 752 p., Linz (Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum).

Kathayat, G., Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Zhang, H., Li, X., Yi, L., Ning, Y., Cai, Y., Lui, W.L., Breitenbach, S.F.M. (2016): Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales. – Scientific Reports, 6, 24374.

Moseley, G.E., Edwards, R.L., Wendt, K.A., Cheng, H., Dublyansky, Y., Lu, Y., Boch, R., Spötl, C. (2016): Reconciliation of the Devils Hole climate record with orbital forcing. – Science, 351, 165-168.

Dublyansky, Y., Klenke, J., Spötl, C. (2016): Condensation corrosion speleogenesis in the Amargosa Desert and the Tecopa Basin. – in: Proceedings of DEEPKARST 2016: Origins, Resources, and Management of Hypogene Karst(ed. by Chavez, T. & Reehling, P.), 169-176, Carlsbad, New Mexico (National Cave and Karst Research Institute).

Dublyansky, Y., Roncat, A., Spötl, C., Dorninher, P. (2016): Hypogene cave morphology at high resolution: full 3-D survey of Märchenhöhle (Austria). – in: Proceedings of DEEPKARST 2016: Origins, Resources, and Management of Hypogene Karst (ed. by Chavez, T. & Reehling, P.), 183-187, Carlsbad, New Mexico (National Cave and Karst Research Institute).

Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Yi, L., Chen, S., Kelly, M., Kathayat, G., Wang, X., Li, X., Kong, X., Wang, Y., Ning, Y., Zhang, H. (2016): The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations. - Nature, 534, 640-646.

Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Sinha, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Jochum, K.P., Scholz, D., Li, X., Yi, L., Peng, Y., Lv, Y., Zhang, P., Votintseva, A., Loginov, V., Ning, Y., Kathayat, G., Edwards, R.L. (2016): Climate variations of Central Asia on orbital to millennial timescales. – Scientific Reports, 6, 36975.

Passchier, C., Sürmelihindi, G., Spötl, C., Mertz-Kraus, R., Scholz, D. (2016): Carbonate deposits from the ancient aqueduct of Béziers, France – a high-resolution palaeoenvironmental archive for the Roman Empire. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 461, 328-340.

Klampfer, A., Plan, L., Büchel, E., Spötl, C. (2017): Neubearbeitung und Forschung im Schneckenloch, der längster Höhle im Bregenzerwald. – Die Höhle, 68, 14-30.

Riechelmann, S., Schröder-Ritzrau, R., Spötl, C., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Richter, D.K., Mangini, A., Frank, N., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Immenhauser, A. (2017): Sensitivity of Bunker Cave to climatic forcings highlighted through multi-annual monitoring of rain-, soil-, and dripwaters. – Chemical Geology, 449, 194-205.

Töchterle, P., Dublyansky, Y., Stöbener, N., Mandíc, M., Spötl, C. (2017): High resolution isotopic monitoring of cave air CO2. – Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31, 895-900.

Spötl, C., Egger, M., Mangini, A., Pavuza, R. (2017): Das Karstsystem am Obstanser See (Kartitsch, Osttirol) – geowissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. – Die Höhle, 68, 59-78.

Mischel, S.A., Scholz, D., Spötl, C., Jochum, K.P., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Fiedler, S. (2017): Holocene climate variability in Central Germany and a potential link to the polar North Atlantic: A replicated record from three coeval speleothems. – The Holocene, 27, 509-525.

Mayr, C., Brandlmeier, B., Diersche, V., Stojakowits, P., Kirscher, U., Matzke-Karasz, R., Bachtadse, V., Eigler, M., Haas, U., Lempe, B., Reimer, P.J., Spötl, C. (2017): Nesseltalgraben, a new reference section of the last glacial period in southern Germany. – Journal of Paleolimnology, 58, 213-229.

Leitner, C. & Spötl, C. (2017): The Eastern Alps: Multistage development of extremely deformed evaporites. – in: Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins: Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential (Ed. by Soto, J.I., Flinch, J.F, Tari, G.), 467-482, Amsterdam, Elsevier.

Koltai, G., Spötl, C., Shen, C.-C., Wu, C.-C., Rao, Z., Palcsu, L., Kele, S., Surányi, G., Bárány-Kevei, I. (2017): A penultimate glacial climate record from southern Hungary. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 32, 946-956.

Koltai, G., Spötl, C., Luetscher, M., Cheng, H., Barrett, S.J., Müller, W. (2017): The nature of annual lamination in flowstones from non-karstic fractures, Vinschgau (northern Italy). – Chemical Geology, 457, 1-14.

Gribovszki, K.E., Kovács, K., Mónus, P., Bokelmann, G., Konecny, P., Lednická, M., Moseley, G., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Bednárik, M., Brimich, L., Tóth, L. (2017): Estimating the upper limit of prehistoric peak ground acceleration using an in situ, intact and vulnerable stalagmite from Plavecká priepast cave (Detrekői-zsomboly), Little Carpathians, Slovakia - first results. – Journal of Seismology, 21, 1111-1130.

Dublyansky, Y., Klenke, J., Spötl, C. (2017): Condensation corrosion speleogenesis in the Amargosa Desert and the Tecopa Basin. – in: Klimchouk, A., Palmer, A.N., De Waele, J., Auler, A.J. & Audra, P. (eds.): Hypogene Karst Regions and Caves of the World, 565-573, New York (Springer).

Spötl, C., Plan, L., Dublyansky, Y. (2017): Hypogene karst in Austria. – in: Klimchouk, A., Palmer, A.N., De Waele, J., Auler, A.J. & Audra, P. (eds.): Hypogene Karst Regions and Caves of the World, 113-126, New York (Springer).

Spötl, C., Stadler, H. (2017): Höhlenburgen in Nordtirol – eine Spurensuche. – Die Höhle, 68, 134-143.

Hansen, M., Scholz, D., Froeschmann, M.-L., Schöne, B.R., Spötl, C. (2017): Carbon isotope exchange between gaseous CO2 and thin solution films: Artificial cave experiments and a complete diffusion-reaction model. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 211, 28-47.

Spötl, C., Slupetzky, H., Drescher-Schneider, R., Festi, D., Heiss, A.G., Reimer, P.J. (2017): An Early Würmian age for the inneralpine Halldorf site, Salzach Valley, Austria. – Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 110, 109-121.

Dertnig, F., Stüwe, K., Woodhead, J., Stuart, F.M., Spötl, C. (2017): Constraints on the Miocene landscape evolution of the Eastern Alps from the Kalkspitze region, Niedere Tauern (Austria). – Geomorphology, 299, 24-38.

Pavuza, R., Spötl, C. (2017): Neue Daten zu Vorkommen und Entstehung kryogener Calcite in ostalpinen Höhlen. – Die Höhle, 68, 100-106.

Barrett, S., Schmidmair, D., Spötl, C. (2017): Mineralogical composition of the Baumkirchen lacustrine sequence (Würmian, Inn Valley, Tyrol): provenance and palaeogeographical implications. – Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 110, 43-56.

Barrett, S., Starnberger, R., Tjallingii, R., Brauer, A., Spötl, C. (2017): The sedimentary history of the inneralpine Inn Valley (Austria): extending the Baumkirchen type section further back in time with new drilling. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 32, 63-79.

Wynn, P.M., Fairchild, I.J., Borsato, A., Spötl, C., Hartland, A., Baker, A., Frisia, S., Baldini, J.U.L. (2018): Sulphate partitioning into calcite: Experimental verification of pH control and application to seasonality in speleothems. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 226, 69-83.

Vieten, R., Warken, S., Winter, A., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Scholz, D. & Spötl, C. (2018): Hurricane impact on seepage water in Larga Cave, Puerto Rico. – Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123, 879-888.

Vieten, R., Warken, S., Winter, A., Scholz, D., Miller, T., Spötl, C., Schroeder-Ritzrau, A., Terzer, S. (2018): Monitoring of Cueva Larga, Puerto Rico – a first step to decode speleothem climate records. – in: White, W.B., Herman, J.S., Hermann, E.K. & Rutigliano, M. (eds.), Karst Groundwater Contamination and Public Health, 319-331, Berlin, Springer.

Spötl, C., Reimer, P.J., Göhlich, U.B. (2018): Mammoths inside the Alps during the last glacial period: radiocarbon constraints from Austria and palaeoenvironmental implications. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 190, 11-19.

Koltai, G., Cheng, H., Spötl, C. (2018): Palaeoclimate significance of speleothems in crystalline rocks: a test case from the Late Glacial and early Holocene (Vinschgau, northern Italy). – Climate of the Past, 14, 369-381.

Spötl, C., Wimmer, M., Pavuza, R., Plan, L. (2018): Ice caves in Austria. – in: Ice caves (Persoiu, A. & Lauritzen, S.-E), 237-262, Amsterdam, Elsevier.

Fohlmeister, J., Arps, J., Spötl, C., Schröder‐Ritzrau, A., Plessen, A., Günter, C., Frank, N., Trüssel, M. (2018): Carbon and oxygen isotope fractionation in the water‐calcite‐aragonite system. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 235, 127-139.

Johnston, V.E., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Töchterle, P., Hellstrom, J.C., Bajo, P., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2018): Evidence of thermophilisation and elevation-dependent warming during the Last Interglacial in the Italian Alps. – Scientific Reports (Nature), 8:2680.

Spötl, C., Reimer, P.J., Rabeder, G., Bronk Ramsey, C. (2018): Radiocarbon constraints on the age of the world's highest-elevation cave-bear population, Conturines Cave (Dolomites, Northern Italy). – Radiocarbon, 60, 299-307.

Barrett, S., Drescher-Schneider, R., Starnberger, R., Spötl, C. (2018): Evaluation of the regional vegetation and climate in the Eastern Alps (Austria) during MIS 3–4 based on pollen analysis of the classical Baumkirchen paleolake sequence. – Quaternary Research, 90, 153-163.

Spötl, C. (2018): Moonmilk as a human and veterinary medicine: evidence of past artisan mining in caves of the Austrian Alps. – International Journal of Speleology, 47, 127-135.

Dublyansky, Y.Moseley, G.E., Liakhnitsky, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Scholz, D., Koltai, G. Spötl, C. (2018): Late Palaeolithic cave art and permafrost in the Southern Ural. – Scientific Reports (Nature), 8:12080.

Zhang, H.W., Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Cai, Y., Sinha, A., Tan, L., Yi, L., Yan, H., Kathayat, G., Ning, Y., Li, X., Zhang, F., Zhao, J., Edwards, R.L. (2018): A 200-year annually laminated stalagmite record of precipitation seasonality in southeastern China and its linkages to ENSO and PDO. – Scientific Reports (Nature), 8:12344.

Warken, S.F., Fohlmeister, J., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Constantin, S., Spötl, C., Gerdes, A., Esper, J., Frank, N., Arps, J., Terente, M., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Mangini, A. & Scholz, D. (2018): Reconstruction of late Holocene autumn/winter precipitation variability in SW Romania from a high-resolution speleothem trace element record. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 499, 122-133.

Dublyansky, Y.V., Klimchouk, A.B. Tokarev, S., Amelichev, G.N., Langhamer, L. & Spötl, C.(2018): Stable isotopic composition of atmospheric precipitation on the Crimean Peninsula and its controlling factors. – Journal of Hydrology, 565, 61-73.

Spötl, C. & Offenbecher, K.-H. (2018): Höhlenluft und Bewetterung der Gassel-Tropfsteinhöhle. – In: Höh(l)enluft und Wissensraum. Die Gassel-Tropfsteinhöhle im Salzkammergut zwischen Alltagskultur, Naturkunde und wissenschaftlicher Forschung (Ed. by J. Mattes & D. Kuffner), Denisia, 40, 277-282.

Spötl, C., Brandstätter, S., Moseley, G. & Offenbecher, K.-H. (2018): Tropfsteine als Zeugnisse und Zeitmesser der Vergangenheit. – In: Höh(l)enluft und Wissensraum. Die Gassel-Tropfsteinhöhle im Salzkammergut zwischen Alltagskultur, Naturkunde und wissenschaftlicher Forschung (Ed. by J. Mattes & D. Kuffner), Denisia, 40, 283-290.

Sürmelihindi, G., Leveau,  P., Spötl, C., Bourgeois, M., Bernard, V., Passchier, C.W. (2018): The second century CE Roman watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the enigma of one of the oldest industrial complexes. – Science Advances, 4 : eaar3620.

Wolfgring, E., Wagreich, M., Dinarès-Turell, J., Gier, S., Böhm, K., Sames, B., Spötl, C., Popp, F. (2018): The Santonian - Campanian boundary and the end of the Long Cretaceous Normal Polarity-Chron: Isotope and plankton stratigraphy of a pelagic reference section in the NW Tethys (Austria). – Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 51, 445-476.

Weber, M., Scholz, D., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Deininger, M., Spötl, C., Lugli, F., Mertz-Kraus, R., Jochum, K.P., Fohlmeister, J., Stumpf, C.F., Riechelmann, D.C.F. (2018): Evidence of warm and humid interstadials in central Europe during early MIS 3 revealed by a multi-proxy speleothem record. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 200, 276-286.

Wendt, K.A., Dublyansky, Y.V., Moseley, G.E., R Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Spötl, C. (2018): Moisture availability in the southwest United States over the last three glacial-interglacial cycles. – Science Advances, 4: eaau1375.

Koltai, G., Ostermann, M., Cheng, H. & Spötl, C. (2018): Can vein-filling speleothems constrain the timing of deep-seated gravitational slope deformation? A case study from the Vinschgau (Italian Alps). – Landslides, 15, 2243-2254.

Dublyansky, Y., Lyakhnitsky, Y., Spötl, C. (2018): Data on the 14C date obtained from the charcoal figure “Blackfox” in Shulgan-Tash (Kapova) cave, Southern Ural, Russia. – Data in Brief, 21, 1101-1105.

Zhang, H.W., Cheng, H., Cai, Y., Spötl, C., Kathayat, G., Sinha, A., Edwards, R.L., Tan, L. (2018): Hydroclimatic variations in southeastern China during the 4.2 ka event reflected by stalagmite records. – Climate of the Past, 14, 1805-1817.

Li, H., Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Kathayat, G., Spötl, C., André, A.A., Meunier, A., Biswas, J., Duan, P., Ning, Y., Edwards, R.L. (2018): Hydro-climatic variability in the southwestern Indian Ocean between 6000 and 3000 years ago. – Climate of the Past, 14, 1881-1891.

Németh, P., Mugnaioli, E., Gemmi, M., Czuppon, G., Demény, A., Spötl, C. (2018): A nanocrystalline monoclinic CaCO3 precursor of metastable aragonite. – Science Advances, 4: eaau6178.

Zhao, J., Cheng, H., Yang, Y., Tan, L., Spötl, C., Ning, Y., Zhang, H., Cheng, X., Sun, Z., Li, X., Li, H., Liu, W., Edwards, R.L. (2019): Reconstructing the western boundary variability of the Western Pacific Subtropical High over the past 200 years via Chinese cave oxygen isotope records. – Climate Dynamics, 52, 3741-3757.

Hansen, M., Scholz, D., Schöne, B.R., Spötl, C. (2019): Simulating speleothem growth in the laboratory: Determination of stable isotope fractionation (δ13C and δ18O) between H2O, DIC and CaCO3. – Chemical Geology, 509, 20-44

Sürmelihindi, G., Passchier, C.W., Leveau, P., Spötl, C., Bourgeois, M., Bernard, V. (2019): Barbegal: carbonate imprints give a voice to the first industrial complex of Europe. - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 24, 1041-1058.

Spötl, C. (2019): Von der Eiszeit zur heutigen Warmzeit. Das Werden der Landschaft am Großen Ahornboden. - In: Großer Ahornboden. Eine Landschaft erzählt ihre Geschichte, 2nd edition (eds. H. Sonntag, F. Straubinger), 49-59, Wattens (Berenkamp).

Wilcox, P.S., Dorale, J.A., Baichtal, J., Spötl, C., Fowell, S.J., Edwards, R.L., Kovarik, J.L. (2019): Millennial-scale glacial climate variability in Southeastern Alaska follows Dansgaard-Oeschger cyclicity. – Scientific Reports, 9:7880.

Warken, S.F., Scholz, D., Spötl, C., Jochum, K.P., Pajón, J.M., Bahr, A., Mangini, A. (2019): Caribbean hydroclimate and vegetation history across the last glacial period. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, 75-90.

Ait Brahim, Y., Wassenburg, J.A., Sha, L., Cruz, F.W., Deininger, M., Sifeddine, A., Bouchaou, L., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2019): North Atlantic ice-rafting, ocean and atmospheric circulation during the Holocene: Insights from Western Mediterranean speleothems. – Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 7614-7623.

Columbu, A., Spötl, C., De Waele, J., Tsai-Luen, Y., Shen, C.-C., Gazquez, F. (2019): A long record of MIS 7 and MIS 5 climate and environment from a western Mediterranean speleothem (SW Sardinia, Italy). – Quaternary Science Reviews, 220, 230-243.

Spötl, C., Scholz, D., Rabeder, G., Reimer, P. (2019): Cave bear occupation in Schwabenreith Cave, Austria, during the early last glacial: constraints from 230Th/U-dated speleothems. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 34, 424-432.

Gröbner, K., Gadermayr, W., Höfer, G., Huemer, H., Spötl, C. (2019): Karst hydrogeology of Lamprechtsofen (Leoganger Steinberge, Salzburg). – Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 112, 50-61.

Budsky, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Mertz-Kraus, R., Spötl, C., Jochum, K.P., Gibert, L., Scholz, D. (2019): Western Mediterranean climate response to Dansgaard/Oeschger events: new insights from speleothem records. – Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 9042-9053.

Dublyansky, Y.V., Klimchouk, A.B., Tokarev, S.V., Amelichev, G.N., Spötl, C. (2019): Groundwater of the Crimean peninsula: a first systematic study using stable isotopes. – Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 55, 419-437.

Drysdale, R.N., Zanchetta, G., Baneschi, I., Guidi, M., Isola, I., Couchoud, I., Piccini, L., Greig, A., Wong, H., Woodhead, J.D., Regattieri, E., Corrick, E., Paul, B., Spötl, C., Denson, E., Gordon, J., Jaillet, S., Dux, F., Hellstrom, J.F. (2019): Partitioning of Mg, Sr, Ba and U into a subaqueous calcite speleothem. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 264, 67-91.

Budsky, A., Scholz, D., Wassenburg, J.A., Mertz-Kraus, R., Spötl, C., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Gibert, L., Jochum, K.P., Meinrat, A.O.: Speleothem δ13C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly? – The Holocene, 27, 1113-1133.

Spötl, C.: Historischer Bergmilch-Abbau in Nordtiroler Höhlen. – Die Höhle, 70, 148-158.

Wielander, B., Allhuter, D., Spötl, C. (2019): Neue Ergebnisse der Höhlenforschung im östlichen Höllengebirge. – Die Höhle, 70, 39-56.

Pacher, M., Spötl, C., Reimer, P. (2019): Erstnachweis des Höhlenbären im Karwendel (Tirol). – Die Höhle, 70, 112-119.

Plan, L., Spötl, C., Bryda, G. (2019): Speläologie und Geologie der Hirschgrubenhöhle am Hochschwab (Steiermark). – Die Höhle, 70, 79-93.

Rogerson, M., Dublyansky, Y., Hoffmann, D.L., Luetscher, M., Töchterle, P.P.Spötl, C. (2019): Enhanced Mediterranean water cycle explains increased humidity during MIS 3 in North Africa. – Climate of the Past, 15, 1757-1769.

Pérez-Mejías, C., Moreno, A., Sancho, C., Martín-García, R., Spötl, C., Cacho, I., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L. (2019): Orbital-to-millennial scale climate variability during Marine Isotope Stages 5 to 3 in NE Spain. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 224, 105946

Moseley, G.E., Rosvold, J., Gotfredsen, A.B., Hajdas, I., Gilg, O., Gregersen, K.M., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L. (2019): First pre-modern record of the Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) in north-east Greenland. – Polar Research, 38.

Spötl, C. & Koltai, G. (2025): Cryogenic cave carbonates: New insights from alpine ice caves. – Chemical Geology, 685, 122808.

Moseley, G.E., Spötl, C., Brandstätter, S., Erhardt, T., Luetscher, M., Edwards, R. L. (2020): NALPS19: sub-orbital-scale climate variability recorded in northern Alpine speleothems during the last glacial period. - Climate of the Past, 16, 29–50.

Zhang, H.W., Cheng, H., Cai, Y.J., Spötl, C., Sinha, A., Kathayat, G., Li, H. (2020): Effect of precipitation seasonality on annual oxygen isotopic composition in the area of spring persistent rain in southeastern China and its palaeoclimatic implication. – Climate of the Past, 16, 211-225.

Wendt, K.A., Pythoud, M., Moseley, G.E., Dublyansky, Y.V., Edwards, R.L., Spötl, C. (2020): Paleohydrology southwest Nevada (USA) based on groundwater 234U/238U over the past 475,000 k.y. – Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132, 793-802.

Bajo, P., Drysdale, R.N., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J.C., Hodell, D., Ferretti, P., Voelker, A.H.L., Zanchetta, G., Rodrigues, T., Wolff, E., Tyler, J., Frisia, S., Spötl, C., Fallick, T. (2020): Persistent influence of obliquity on ice-age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene Transition. – Science, 367, 1235-1239.

Carobene, D., Meyer, M.C., Spötl, C., Roetzel, R., Göhlich, U.B., Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M., Wimmer-Frey, I., Reimer, P.J., Auer, F. (2020): An interdisciplinary study of a mammoth-bearing Late Pleistocene sediment succession in lower Austria. – Quaternary International, 542, 15-29.

Columbu, A., Chiarini, V., Spötl, C., Benazzi, S., Hellstrom, J., Cheng, H., De Waele, J. (2020): Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal–modern human turnover in southern Italy. – Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4, 1188-1195.

Waltgenbach, S., Scholz, D., Spötl, C., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Jochum, K.P., Fohlmeister, J., Schröder-Ritzrau, A. (2020): Climate and structure of the 8.2 ka event reconstructed from three speleothems from Germany. – Global Planetary Change, 193, 103266.

Bajnai, D., Guo, W., Spötl, C., Coplen, T.B., Methner, K., Löffler, N., Krsnik, E., Gischler, E., Hansen, M., Henkel, D., Price, G.D., Raddatz, J., Scholz, D., Fiebig, J. (2020): Dual clumped isotope thermometry resolves kinetic biases in carbonate formation temperatures. – Nature Communications, 11:4005.

Neuner, W., Spötl, C. (2020): The presence of elk (Alces alces) in Austria since the upper Pleistocene. – Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 113, 111-124.

Cheng, H., Zhang, H.,  Spötl, C., Baker, J., Sinha, A., Li, H., Bartolomé, M., Moreno, A., Kathayat, G., Zhao, J., Dong, X., Li, Y., Ning, Y., Jia, X., Zong, B., Ait Brahim, Y., Pérez-Mejías, C., Cai, Y., Novello, V.F., Cruz, F.C., Severinghaus, J.P., An, Z., Edwards, R.L. (2020): Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics. - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 23408-23417.

Moseley, G.E., Barton, H.A., Spötl, C., Töchterle, P., Smith, M.P., Bjerkenås, S.E., Blakeley, C., Hodkinson, P.D., Shone, R.C., Sivertsen, H.C., Wright, M. (2020): Cave discoveries and speleogenetic features in northeast Greenland. -Cave and Karst Science 47(2), 74-87.

Ilyashuk, E.A., Ilyashuk, B.P., Heiri, O., Spötl, C. (2020): Summer temperatures and lake development during the MIS 5a interstadial: New data from the Unterangerberg palaeolake in the Eastern Alps, Austria. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 560, 110020.

Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Racine, T. (2020): Einblicke in Vereisungsgeschichte der Eisriesenwelt (Tennengebirge). – Die Höhle, 71, 45-61.

Li, H., Sinha, A., André, A.A., Spötl, C., Vonhof, H.B., Meunier, A., Kathayat, G., Duan, P., Voarintsoa, N.R.G., Ning, Y., Biswas, J., Hu, P., Li, X., Sha, L., Zhao, J., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2020): A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands. – Science Advances, 6: eabb2459, .

Passchier, C.W., Bourgeois, M., Viollet, P.-L., Sürmelihindi, G., Bernard, V., Leveau, P., Spötl, C. (2020): Reconstructing the hydraulics of the world’s first industrial complex, the second century CE Barbegal watermills, France. – Scientific Reports, 10:17917.

Deininger, M., McDermott, F., Cruz, F.W., Bernal, J.P., Mudelsee, M., Vonhof, H., Millo, C., Spötl, C., Treble, P.C., Pickering, R., Scholz, D. (2020): Inter-hemispheric synchroneity of Holocene precipitation anomalies controlled by Earth’s latitudinal insolation gradients. – Nature Communications, 11:5447.

Gschwentner, P., Kerschner, H., Spötl, C. (2020): Late Glacial ice advance in the Kellerjoch region near Schwaz (Tyrol, Eastern Alps). – Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 113, 211-226.

Warken, S.F., Vieten, R., Winter, A., Spötl, C., Miller, T.E., Jochum, K.P., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Mangini, A., Scholz, D. (2020): Persistent link between Caribbean precipitation and Atlantic Ocean circulation during the Last Glacial revealed by a speleothem record from Puerto Rico. – Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35, e2020PA003944.

Wilcox, P.S., Honiat, C., Trüssel, M., Edwards, R.L., Spötl, C. (2020): Exceptional warmth and climate instability occurred in the European Alps during the Last Interglacial period. – Communications Earth & Environment, 1:57,

Li, T.-Y., Xiao, S.-Y., Shen, C.-C., Zhang, J., Chen, C.-J., Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Huang, R.,Wang, T., Li, J.-Y., Wu, Y., Liu, Z.-Q., Edwards, R.L., Yu, T.-L. (2021): Little Ice Age climate changes in Southwest China from a stalagmite δ18O record. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562, 119167.

Li, H., Spötl, C., Cheng, H. (2021): A high-resolution speleothem proxy record of the Late Glacial in the European Alps: extending the NALPS19 record until the beginning of the Holocene. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 36, 29-39.

Wolfgring, E., Wagreich, M., Hohenegger, J., Böhm, K., Dinarès Turell, J., Gier, S., Sames, B., Spötl, C., Jin, S. (2021): An integrated multi-proxy study of cyclic pelagic deposits from the north-western Tethys: The Campanian of the Postalm section (Gosau Group, Austria). – Cretaceous Research, 120, 104704.

Passchier, C., Sürmelihindi, G., Boyer, D., Yalçin, C., Spötl, C., Mertz-Kraus, R. (2021): The aqueduct of Gerasa – Intra-annual palaeoenvironmental data from Roman Jordan using carbonate deposits. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562, 110089.

Li, X., Wendt, K.A., Dublyansky, Y., Moseley, G.E., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L. (2021): Novel method for determining 234U-238U ages of Devils Hole 2 cave calcite. – Geochronology, 3, 49-58.

Dublyansky, Y., Shirokov, V., Moseley, G.E., Kosintsev, P.A., Edwards, L.R., Spötl, C. (2021): 230Th dating of flowstone from Ignatievskaya Cave, Russia: Age constraints of rock art and paleoclimate inferences. – Geoarchaeology, 36, 532-545.

Weber, M., Hinz, Y., Schöne, B.R., Jochum, K.P., Hoffmann, D., Spötl, C., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Scholz, D. (2021): Opposite trends in Holocene speleothem proxy records from two neighbouring caves in Germany: A multi-proxy evaluation. – Frontiers in Earth Science 9:642651, .

Munroe, J., Kimble, K., Spötl, C., Marks, G.S., McGee, D., Herron, D. (2021): Cryogenic cave carbonate and implications for thawing permafrost at Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA. – Scientific Reports, 11:6430.

Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Koltai, G., Cheng, H. (2021): Hypogene speleogenesis and paragenesis in the Dolomites. – Geomorphology, 382, 107667.

Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Jarosch, A., Cheng, H. (2021): Increased autumn and winter precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum in the European Alps. – Nature Communications, 12:1839.

Moseley, G.E., Edwards, R.L., Lord, N.S., Spötl, C., Cheng, H. (2021): Speleothem record of mild and wet mid-Pleistocene climate in northeast Greenland. – Science Advances, 7:eabe1260.

Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Koltai, G., Honiat, C., Plan, L., Angerer, T. (2021): Stable isotope imprint of hypogene speleogenesis: Lessons from Austrian caves. – Chemical Geology, 572, 120209.

Stojakowits, P., Mayr, C., Ivy-Ochs, S., Preusser, F., Reitner, J.M., Spötl, C. (2021): Environments at the MIS 3/2 transition in the northern Alps and their foreland. – Quaternary International, 581-582, 99-113.

Waltgenbach, S., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Spötl, C., Jochum, K.P., Fohlmeister, J., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Scholz, D. (2021): Climate variability in Central Europe during the last 2500 years reconstructed from four high-resolution multi-proxy speleothem records. – Geosciences, 11, 116.

Koltai, G., Spötl, C., Jarosch, A., Cheng, H. (2021): Cryogenic cave carbonates in the Dolomites (northern Italy): insights into Younger Dryas cooling and seasonal precipitation. - Climate of the Past, 17, 775–789.

Zhang, H., Zhang, X., Cai, Y., Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Baker, J., Kathayat, G., Liu, Z., Tian, Y., Lu, J., Wang, Z., Zhao, J., Jia, X., Du, W., Ning, Y., An, Z., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2021): A data-model comparison pinpoints Holocene spatiotemporal pattern of East Asian summer monsoon. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 261, 106911.

Zhang, H., Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Zhang, X., Cruz, F.W., Sinha, A., Auler, A.S., Stríkis, N.M., Wang, X., Kathayat, G., Li, X., Pérez-Mejías, C., Cai, Y., Ning, Y., Edwards, R.L. (2021): Gradual South-North climate transition in the Atlantic realm within the Younger Dryas. – Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092620.

Sürmelihindi, G., Passchier, C., Crow, J., Spötl, C., Mertz-Kraus, R. (2021): Carbonates from the ancient world’s longest aqueduct: a testament of Byzantine water management. – Geoarchaeology, 36, 643-649.

Luetscher, M., Moseley, G.E., Festi, D., Hof, F., Edwards, R.L., Spötl, C. (2021): A last interglacial speleothem record from the Sieben Hengste cave system (Switzerland): implications for alpine paleovegetation. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 262, 106974.

Bernal-Wormull, J.L., Moreno, A., Pérez-Mejías, C., Bartolomé, M., Aranburu, A., Arriolabengoa, M., Iriarte, E., Cacho, I., Spötl, C., Edwards, L.R., Cheng, H. (2021): Immediate temperature response in northern Iberia to last deglacial changes in the North Atlantic. – Geology, 49, 999-1003.

Wendt, K.A., Li, X., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Spötl, C. (2021): Precise timing of MIS 7 substages from the Austrian Alps. - Climate of the Past, 17, 1443-1454.

Steidle, S.D., Warken, S.F., Schorndorf, N., Förstel, J., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Moseley, G.E., Spötl, C., Avilés, J., Stinnesbeck, W., Frank, N.: Reconstruction of Middle to Late Quaternary sea level using submerged speleothems from the northeastern Yucatán Peninsula. - Journal of Quaternary Science, 36, 1190-1200.

Spötl, C. (2021): Verborgene Welten. Höhlen in Südtirol. - Bergeerleben, 04/21, 8-11.

Pacher, M., Spötl, C., Reimer, P. (2021): Die Höhlenbären des Frauenofens (1511/18) im Tennengebirge, Salzburg. – Die Höhle, 72, 66-75.

Spötl, C., Zhang, H. (2021): Zur Speläogenese der Hundsalm Eis- und Tropfsteinhöhle. – Die Höhle, 72, 108-116.

Spötl, C., Gruber, A., Racine, T., Scholz, D., Honiat, C. (2021): Karst und Höhlen am Guffert (Nordtirol). – Die Höhle, 72, 92-107.

Johnston, V.E., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Spötl, C., Hellstrom, J.C., Cheng, H., Edwards, L. (2021): Last interglacial hydroclimate in the Italian Prealps reconstructed from speleothem multi-proxy records (Bigonda Cave, NE Italy). – Quaternary Science Reviews, 272, 107243.

Welte, C., Fohlmeister, J., Wertnik, M., Wacker, L., Hattendorf, B., Eglinton, T.I., Spötl, C. (2021): Climatic variations during the Holocene inferred from radiocarbon and stable carbon isotopes in speleothems from a high-alpine cave. – Climate of the Past, 17, 2165-2177.

Cheng, H., Xu, Y., Dong, X., Zhao, J., Li, H., Baker, J., Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Zhang, H., Du, W., Zong, B., Jia, X., Kathayat, G., Liu, D., Cai, Y., Wang, X., Strikis, N.M., Cruz, F.W., Auler, A.S., Gupta, A.K., Singh, R.K., Jaglan, S., Dutt, S., Liu, Z., Edwards, R.L. (2021): Onset and termination of Heinrich Stadial 4 and the underlying climate dynamics. – Communications Earth & Environment, 2:230, .

Zhang, H., Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Cai, Y., Liu, B., Kathayat, G., Li, H., Tian, Y., Li, Y., Zhao, J., Sha, L., Lu, J., Meng, B., Niu, X., Dong, X., Liang, Z., Zong, B., Ning, Y., Lan, J., Edwards, R.L. (2021): Collapse of the Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in the lower Yangtze region in response to climate change. – Science Advances, 7, eabi9275.

Ilyashuk, E.A., Ilyashuk, B.P., Heiri, O., Spötl, C. (2022): Summer temperatures and environmental dynamics during the Middle Würmian (MIS 3) in the Eastern Alps: Multi-proxy records from the Unterangerberg palaeolake, Austria. – Quaternary Science Advances, 6, 10050,

Warken, S.F., Kuchalski, L., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Vieten, R., Schmidt, M., Hoepker, S., Hartland, A., Spötl, C., Scholz, D., Frank, N. (2022): The impact of seasonal and event-based infiltration on transition metals (Cu, Ni, Co) in tropical cave drip water. - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2022;36:e9278.

Columbu, A., Nannoni, A., Grasso, N., Paolo, D., Fiorucci, A., Vigna, B., Bertagni, M.B., Camporeale, C., Forti, P., De Waele, J. & Spötl, C. (2022): Genesis of wavy flowstones (Bossea Cave, North Italy) and hydroclimate significance. – Catena, 214, 106294.

Racine, T., Spötl, C., Reimer, P., Čarga, J. (2022): Radiocarbon constraints on periods of positive cave ice mass balance during the last millennium, Julian Alps (NW Slovenia). – Radiocarbon, 64, 333-356.

Honiat, C., Festi, D., Wilcox, P., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Spötl, C. (2022): Early Last Interglacial environmental changes recorded by speleothems from Katerloch (south-east Austria). – Journal of Quaternary Science, 37, 665-676.

Riechelmann, S., Spötl, C., Immenhauser, A. (2022): Time series of d26Mg variability in precipitation of north-west Germany. – Depositional Record, 8, 457-471.

Pfeiffer, J., Zieher, T., Schmieder, J., Bogaard, T., Rutzinger, M. & Spötl, C. (2022): Spatial assessment of probable recharge areas – Investigating the hydrogeological controls of an active deep-seated gravitational slope deformation. – Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22, 2219-2237.

Racine, T., Reimer, P.J. & Spötl, C. (2022): Multi‐centennial mass balance of perennial ice deposits in Alpine caves mirrors the evolution of glaciers during the Late Holocene. – Scientific Reports, 12:11374.

Wind, M., Obleitner, F., Racine, T. & Spötl, C. (2022): Multi-annual temperature evolution and implications for cave ice development in a sag-type ice cave in the Austrian Alps. – The Cryosphere, 16, 3163-3179.

Columbu, A., Spötl, C., Fohlmeister, J., Hu, H.-M., Chiarini, V, Hellstrom, J., Cheng, H., Shen, C.-C., De Waele, J. (2022): Central Mediterranean rainfall varied with high northern latitude temperatures during the last deglaciation. – Communications Earth & Environment, 3:181.

Hu, H.-M., Shen, C.-C., Chiang, J.C.H., Trouet, V., Michel, V., Tsai, H.-C., Valensi, P., Spötl, C., Starnini, E., Zunino, M., Chien, W.-Y., Sung, W.-H., Chien, Y.-T., Chang, P., Korty, R. (2022): Split westerlies over Europe in the early Little Ice Age. – Nature Communications, 13:4898.

Töchterle, P., Steidle, S.D., Edwards, R.L., Dublyansky, Y., Spötl, C., Li, X., Gunn, J., Moseley, G.E. (2022): 230Th/U isochron dating of cryogenic cave carbonates. – Geochronology, 4, 617-627.

Kathayat, G., Sinha, A., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Tan, L., Spötl, C., Li, H., Dong, X., Zhang, H., Ning, Y., Allan, R.J., Damodaran, V., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2022): Protracted Indian monsoon droughts of the past millennium and their societal impacts. – PNAS, 119, e2207487119.

Németh, P., Töchterle, P., Dublyansky, Y., Stalder, R., Molnár, Z., Klébert, S., Spötl, C. (2022): Tracing structural relicts of the ikaite-to-calcite transformation in cryogenic cave glendonite. – American Mineralogist, 107, 1960-1967.

Dong, X., Kathayat, G., Rasmussen, S.O.,  Svensson, A., Severinghaus, J., Li, H., Sinha, A., Yao, X.,. Zhang, H., Shi, Z., Cai, Y., Pérez-Mejías, C., Baker, J., Zhao, J., Spötl, C., Columbu, A., Ning, Y., Stríkis, N., Chen, S., Wang, X., Gupta, A.K., Dutt, S., Zhang, F., Cruz, F., An, Z., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2022): Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics during Heinrich Stadial 2. – Nature Communications, 13: 5867.

Hu, H.-M., Trouet, V., Spötl, C., Tsai, H.-C., Chien, W.-Y., Sung, W.-H., Michel, V., Yu, J.-Y., Valensi, P., Jiang, X., Duan, F., Wang, Y., Mii, H.-S., Chou, Y.-M., Lone, M.A., Wu, C.-C., Starnini, E., Zunino, M., Watanabe, T.K., Watanabe, T., Hsu, H.-H., Moor, G.W.K., Zanchetta, G., Pérez-Mejías, C., Lee, S.-Y., Shen, C.-C. (2022): Tracking westerly wind directions over Europe since the middle Holocene. – Nature Communications, 13:7866.

Deininger, M., Ufrecht, W., Nowaczyk, N., Spötl, C., Scholz, D. (2022): Ein Sinter-Klimaarchiv für das Pleistozän Südwestdeutschlands: Die Karls- und Bärenhöhle bei Erpfingen/Schwäbische Alb. – Laichinger Höhlenfreund, 57, 61-82.

Soleimani, M., Nadimi, A., Koltai, G., Dublyansky, Y., Carolin, S., Spötl, C. (2023): Stalagmite evidence of Last Glacial Maximum to early Holocene climate variability in southwestern Iran. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 38, 308-318.

Lauterbach, S., Strasser, M., Kowarik, K., Reschreiter, H., Mandl, G.W., Spötl, C., Plessen, B., Brauer, A. (2023): Large-scale mass movements recorded in the sediments of Lake Hallstatt (Austria) – evidence for recurrent natural hazards at a UNESCO World Heritage site. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 38, 258-275.

Bartolomé, M., Cazenave, G., Luetscher, M., Spötl, C., Gázquez, F., Belmonte, Á., Turchyn, A.V., López-Moreno, J.I.,  Moreno, A. (2023): Mountain permafrost in the Central Pyrenees: insights from the Devaux ice cave. – The Cryosphere, 17, 477-497.

Duan, R., Li, T.-Y., Li, J.-Y., Spötl, C., Li, H.-C., Wang, H.-B., Cheng, H., Ning, Y.-F., Shen, C.-C., Zhou, J.-L., Chen, C.-J., Yu, T.-L., Edwards, R.L., Liu, Z.-Q. (2023): Karst-ecological changes during the middle and late Holocene in Southwest China revealed by δ18O and δ13C records in a stalagmite. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 615, 111437.

Bernal-Wormull, J.L., Moreno, A., Bartolomé, M., Arriolabengoa, M., Pérez-Mejías, C., Iriarte, E., Osácar, E., Aranburu, A., Spötl, C., Stoll, H., Cacho, I., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2023): New insights into the climate of northern Iberia during the Younger Dryas and Holocene: The Mendukilo multi-speleothem record. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 305, 108006, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108006.

Pfeiffer, J., Rutzinger, M., Spötl, C. (2023): Terrestrial laser scanning for 3D mapping of an alpine ice cave. – Photogrammetric Record, 38, 6-21.

Kowalik, N., Anczkiewicz, R., Müller, W., Spötl, C., Bondioli, L., Nava, A., Wojtal, P., Wilczyński, J., Koziarska, M., Matyszczak, M. (2023): Revealing seasonal woolly mammoth migration with spatially-resolved trace element, Sr and O isotopic records of molar enamel. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 306, 108036, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108036.

Vieira de Sousa, D., Spinola, D., Santos, J.C., Tatumi, S., Yee, M., Pessoa, R.A., Eltink, E., do Vale Lopes, D., Spötl, C., Cherkinsky, A., Reis, H.F., de Oliviera Silva, J., Auler, A., Cruz, F. (2023): Relict soil features in cave sediments record periods of wet climate and dense vegetation over the last 100 kyr in a present-day semiarid region of Northeast Brazil. – Catena, 226, 107092, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107092.

Jackson, T.R., Steidle, S.D., Wendt, K.A., Dublyansky, Y., Spötl, C. (2023): A 350,000-year history of groundwater recharge in the southern Great Basin, USA. – Communications Earth & Environment, 4:98, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00762-0.

Jaillet, S., Honiat, C., Pons-Branchu, E., Couchoud, I., Hobléa, F., Racine, T., Spötl, C. (2023): Cave sediments in the Western Bauges karst: A record of Middle and Upper Pleistocene glacial advances in the French Alps. – Geomorphology, 433. 108707.

Spötl, C., Jarosch, A., Saxer, A., Koltai, G., Zhang, H. (2023): Thermoelasticity of ice explains widespread damage in dripstone caves during glacial periods. – Scientific Reports (Nature), 13:7407, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34499-9.

Honiat, C., Koltai, G., Dublyansky, Y., Edwards, R.L., Zhang, H., Cheng, H., Spötl, C. (2023): A paleoprecipitation and paleotemperature reconstruction of the Last Interglacial in the southeastern Alps. – Climate of the Past, 19, 1177-1199.

Anczkiewicz, R., Nava, A., Bondioli, L., Müller, W., Spötl, C., Koziarska, M., Boczkowska, M., Wojtal, P., Wilczyński, J. (2023): High spatial resolution Sr isotope and trace element record of dental enamel mineralization in a woolly mammoth tooth: Implications for paleoecological reconstructions. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 313, 108191.

Uwakwe, O.C., Riechelmann, S., Hoffmann, R., Spötl, C., Jantschke, A., Hansen, M., Immenhauser, A. (2023): Experimental precipitation of cryogenic carbonate. – Chemical Geology, 635, 121615.

Fohlmeister, J., Luetscher, M., Spötl, C., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Schröder, B., Frank, N., Eichstädter, R., Trüssel, M. Skiba, V., Boers, N. (2023): The role of Northern Hemisphere summer insolation for millennial-scale climate variability during the penultimate glacial. – Communications Earth & Environment, 4:245, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00908-0.

Sürmelihindi, G., Passchier, C.W., Rigal, D., Wilson, A., Spötl, C. (2023): Roman aqueduct maintenance in the water supply system of Divona, France. – Scientific Reports, 13:12035, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38655-z.

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.

Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Dublyansky, Y. (2023): Mode of formation of cryogenic cave carbonates: Experimental evidence from an Alpine ice cave. – Chemical Geology, 638, 121712.

Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Koltai, G., Racine, T., Plan, L. (2023): The Obir caves adjacent to the Periadriatic Fault in southern Austria: Uplifted hypogene caves formed by carbonic acid speleogenesis. – Geomorphology, 441, 108901, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108901.

Wilcox, P.S., Spötl, C., Honkonen, J., Edwards, R.L. (2023): A Walker switch mechanism driving millennial-scale climate variability. – The Innovation Geoscience, 1(2): 100026.

Wilcox, P., Mudelsee, M., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L. (2023): Solar forcing of ENSO on century timescales. – Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105201.

Skiba, V., Spötl, C., Trüssel, M., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Schröder, B., Frank, N., Eichstädter, R., Tjangiligi, R., Marwan, N., Zhang, X., Fohlmeister, J. (2023): Millennial-scale climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere influenced glacier dynamics in the Alps around 250,000 years ago. – Communications Earth & Environment, 4:426, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01083-y.

Skiba, V., Jouvet, G., Marwan, N., Spötl, C., Fohlmeister, J. (2023): Speleothem growth and stable carbon isotopes as proxies of the presence and thermodynamical state of glaciers compared to modelled glacier evolution in the Alps. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 322, 108403.

Neuhuber, S., Gier, S., Draganits, E., Steier, P., Bolka, M., Ottner, F., Spötl, C., Hippler, D., Meister, P. (2024): Radiocarbon ages of microcrystalline authigenic carbonate in Lake Neusiedl (Austria) suggest millennial-scale growth of Mg-calcite and protodolomite. – Sedimentology, 71, 912-940.

Koltai, G., Kluge, T., Krüger, Y., Spötl, C., Rinyu, L., Audra, P., Honiat, C., Leél-Őssy, S., Dublyansky, Y. (2024):  Geothermometry of calcite spar at 10-50°C. – Scientific Reports, 14:1553, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-51937-4.

Lange-Enyedi, N.T., Németh, P., Borsodi, A.K., Spötl, C., Makk, J. (2024): Calcium carbonate precipitating extremophilic bacteria in an Alpine ice cave. – Scientific Reports, 4:2710, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53131-y.

Bartolomé, M., Moreno, A., Sancho, C., Cacho, I., Stoll, H., Haghipour, N., Belmonte, Á., Spötl, C., Hellstrom, J., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2024): Reconstructing hydroclimate changes over of past 2500 years using speleothems from Pyrenean caves (NE Spain). – Climate of the Past, 20, 467-497.

Vieten, R., Warken, S.F., Zanchettin, D., Winter, A., Scholz, D., Black, D., Koltai, G., Spötl, C. (2024): Northeastern Caribbean rainfall variability linked to solar and volcanic forcing. – Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39, e2023PA004720.

Spötl, C., Baker, J.L., Skiba, V., Honiat, A., Fohlmeister, J., Luetscher, M., Trüssel, M. (2024): Speleothems in subglacial caves: An emerging archive of glacial climate history and mountain glacier dynamics. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 333, 108684, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108684.

Dublyansky, Y.V., Moseley, G.E., Koltai, G., Töchterle, P., Spötl, C. (2024): Cryogenic cave carbonates. – Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Third Edition, vol. 5, 411-421, UK (Elsevier),

Spötl, C., Fohlmeister, J., Reimer, P., Zhang, H. (2024): First insights into the age of the giant ice deposits in the Eisriesenwelt cave (Austria). – Scientific Reports, 14:11001, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61668-1.

Dublyansky, Y., Töchterle, P., Steck, M.M., Sperlich, D.W., Cheng, H., Zhang, H., Smirnov, S., Spötl, C. (2024): Size–shape–stable isotope (C, O) relationships of cryogenic cave carbonates formed in permafrost settings. – Chemical Geology, 661, 122183.

Zhang, R., Zhang, H., Spötl, C., Cheng, H., Cai, Y., Pérez-Mejías, C., Dong, X., Sha, L., Li, Y., Tan, L., Yang, X., Wang, M., Lu, J., Ning, Y. (2024): Dual pathways of aragonite-to-calcite transformation in stalagmites: implications for paleoclimate reconstructions. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 378, 45-57.

Li, J.-Y., Li, T.-Y., Li, H.-C., Spötl, C., Chen, C.-J., Zhang, J.,Wu, Y., Li, H.-Y., Jin, Y., Zhao, M., Li, H.-K., Dong, Y.-M. (2024): The influence of hydrogeology and carbon sources on speleothem δ13C based on long-term monitoring in Furong Cave, southwest China. – Chemical Geology, 662, 122210.

Soleimani, M., Baker, J.L., Nadimi, A., Dublyansky, Y., Koltai, G., Spötl, C. (2024): Decoupled hydroclimate of Central and Southwestern Iran controlled by the strength of southerly-westerly jets during Marine Isotope Stage 3. – Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109797.

Passchier, C.W., Sürmelihindi, G., Viollet, P.-L., Leveau, P., Spötl, C. (2024): Operation and decline of the Barbegal mill complex, the largest industrial complex of antiquity. – Geoarchaeology, 39, 594-608.

Hu, H.-M., Marino, G., Pérez-Mejías, C., Spötl, C., Yokoyama, Y., Yu, J., Rohling, E., Kano, A., Ludwig, P., Pinto, J.G., Michel, V., Valensi, P., Zhang, X., Jiang, X., Mii, H.-S., Chien, W.-Y., Tsai, H.-C., Sung, W.-H., Hsu, C.-H., Starnini, E., Zunino, M. & Shen, C.-C. (2024): Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial. – Nature Communications, 15, 5933.

Steidle, S.D., Wendt, K.A., Dublyansky, Y., Edwards, R.L., Li, X., McClure, G., Moseley, G.E., Spötl, C. (2024): Moisture availability and groundwater recharge paced by orbital forcing over the past 750,000 years in the southwestern USA. – Communications Earth & Environment, 5:376, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01550-0.

Wilcox, P.S., Spötl, C. & Edwards, R.L. (2024): A temperature snapshot from MIS 5c in southeastern Alaska. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 39, 1031-1037.

Spötl, C., Racine, T. & Reimer, P. (2024): Eishöhlen im westlichen Karwendelgebirge Tirols und die Frage des Alters ihres Eises. – Die Höhle, 75, 46-55.

Spötl, C. & Zhang, H. (2024): Speläotheme als Zeitmarker in hochgelegenen Höhlen des Karwendelgebirges (Tirol). – Die Höhle, 75, 68-81.

Spötl, C., Knipping, M., Zhang, H. & Koltai, G. (2024): Große (pliozäne?) Tropfsteine in tagfernen Teilen der Eisriesenwelt. – Die Höhle, 75, 112-120.

Jarosch, A.H., Hofer, P. & Spötl, C. (2024): Stalagmite damage by cave ice flow quantitatively assessed by fluid-structure-interaction simulations. – The Cryosphere, 18, 4811-4816.

Koltai, G., Spötl, C., Rinyu, L., Honiat, C., Racine, T., Zhang, H., Krüger, Y. & Dublyansky, Y. (2024): Late-stage evolution of hypogene caves at Tyuya-Muyun (Kyrgyzstan): Quantitative insights from mineral deposits. – Chemical Geology, 670, 122454.

Obleitner, F., Trüssel, M. & Spötl, C. (2024): Climate warming detected in caves of the European Alps. – Scientific Reports, 14:27435, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78658-y.

Warken, S.F., Riechelmann, D.C.F., Fohlmeister, J., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Frank, N., Scholz, D., Jochum, K.P., Mirea, I.-C., Constantin, S. & Spötl, C. (2024): Dynamic processes determine precipitation variability in Eastern Central Europe since the Last Glacial Maximum. – Communications Earth & Environment, 5:694, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01876-9.

Wilcox, P.S. & Spötl, C. (2025): Holocene temperatures follow CO2 in Alaska. – The Holocene, 35, 113-117.