Tanguy Racine
Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group
PhD project
Ice in caves, a high resolution archive of past winter precipitation threatened by Global Warming
Research interests
• Exploring the potential of ice in caves as Middle to Late Holocene palaeoclimate archives
• Sampling cave hosted ice deposits to reconstruct winter precipitation records in alpine regions
• Monitoring and modelling ice cave microclimate and ice mass balance dynamics in the context of global warming
Long CV
You can find a link to my academic CV here: curriculum vitae
Short CV
2018-2022 PhD candidate at the University of Innsbruck
2017-2018 Administrative Assistant, ESE Dpt. Imperial College London
2013-2017 M.Sc. Geology (first class honours) at Imperial College London
Grants and scholarships
2018 Doktoratsstipendium aus der Nachwuchsförderung, University of Innsbruck
2016 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Scholarship, Imperial College London
Professional and community involvement
2017 Featured on Imperial Heroes exhibition at Imperial College London
2016-2017 Tours Organiser at the Imperial College Caving Club
2014-2015 President of the Imperial College Caving Club
Pictures
Publications
Marquer, L., Seebacher, L., Racine, T.M.F., Otto, T., Kofler, W., Körbächer, M., Oeggl, K. & Spötl, C. (2026): Ice cave palynology: A tool for reconstructing local vegetation history in the Austrian Alps. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 378, 109884, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109884
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., 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.
Racine, T. (2019): The Migovec System, a deep alpine cave system of the Julian Alps, NW Slovenia. - Die Höhle, 70, 57-75.
Spötl, C., Koltai, G., Racine, T. (2020): Einblicke in Vereisungsgeschichte der Eisriesenwelt (Tennengebirge). – Die Höhle, 71, 45-61.
Spötl, C., Gruber, A., Racine, T., Scholz, D., Honiat, C. (2021): Karst und Höhlen am Guffert (Nordtirol). – Die Höhle, 72, 92-107.
Plan, L., Kaminsky, E., Racine, T., Koltai, G. (2021): Genetische Interpretation der Eisriesenwelt (Tennengebirge). – Die Höhle, 72, 117-138.
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.
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.
Plan, L., Buchegger, G., Kaminsky, E., Koltai, G., Racine, T., Szczygieł, J. (2022): Flow regime evolution of a major cave system in the Eastern Alps (Hirlatzhöhle, Dachstein). - International Journal of Speleology, 51, 181-191.
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., 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.
Spötl, C., Racine, T. & Reimer, P. (2024): Eishöhlen im westlichen Karwendelgebirge Tirols und die Frage des Alters ihres Eises. – Die Höhle, 75, 46-55.
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.