EGU 2026

Another great EGU week wrapped up in Vienna last Friday. A dozen members of the Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group took part in this major event (over 22,000 attendees) and delivered 19 presentations as first authors or co-authors.

First/Presenting author contributions:

Jonathan Baker, Alexandre Honiat, Peter Wynn, Gina Moseley, Regina Mertz, and Christoph Spötl: A multiproxy speleothem-based approach to reconstructing alpine glaciation beyond the limits of geomorphological evidence. EGU26-14454

Christoph Spötl, Masha Boekholt, Leonie Leitgeb, Yuri Dublyansky, Gabriella Koltai, Haiwei Zhang, and Hai Cheng: A Dual Speleothem Perspective on Glacial–Interglacial Hydroclimate in Northern Namibia. EGU26-14091

Alexandre Honiat, Jonathan Baker, Charlotte Honiat, Marc Luetscher, Gina Moseley, Jens Fohlmeister, and Christoph Spötl: 450,000 Years of Climate Variability: A Speleothem Composite from the Northern European Alps. EGU26-20606

Gina E. Moseley, Gabriella Koltai, Jonathan L. Baker, Jian Wang, Heather Stoll, Anika Donner, Lena Anders (née Friedrich), Christoph Spötl, M. Paul Smith, Denis Scholz, Hai Cheng, Adam Hartland, Clivia Hejny, and R. Lawrence Edwards: Reconstructing Late Miocene Arctic Climate from North Greenland Speleothems. EGU26-2851

Jeffrey Munroe and Andrew Cassel: The 2024 Collectors Tour: A Case Study in Field-Based Geoscience Communication. EGU26-7980

Lena K. Anders (neè Friedrich), Gina E. Moseley, Oline Petersen, Kristian Kaspersen, and Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu: Science communication in Greenland: Experiences from the Kalaallit Nunaat Caves and Climate Outreach Project (KINDLE). EGU26-11214

Michael Meyer, Trine Freiesleben, and Thomas Riedle: The Python time machine – an open source software application for luminescence-based rock surface dating. EGU26-22933

Marei Drexler, Diethard Sanders, and Michael C. Meyer: Luminescence dating and 3D modelling of a Mid Pleistocene inner-alpine alluvial-talus succession. EGU26-10579

Sarah Schaffer, Michael Meyer, Peter Tropper, Loic Martin, Michael Frachetti, and Darkhan Baitleu: OSL rock surface burial dating of megalith structures in the Dzhungar Mountains - Kazakhstan. EGU26-19713

Daniel Sperlich, Jeffrey Munroe, Arne Ramisch, and Michael C. Meyer: Cross-Calibration and Sensitivity Analysis of OSL Rock Surface Exposure Dating Using Cosmogenic Nuclide Ages on an Uinta Mountains Rock Glacier (Utah, USA). EGU26-14245

Benjamin Spitaler, Alfred Gruber, Jürgen M. Reitner, and Michael C. Meyer: Are ice-contact lacustrine sediments in the Eastern Alps capable of constraining pre-LGM ice-stream network dynamics? EGU26-20278

Co-author Contributions:

Alexander Budsky, Denis Scholz, Christoph Spötl, Michael Weber, and Hubert Vonhof: A climatic link between speleothem formation in south-eastern Spain and Eastern Mediterranean sapropel deposition?. EGU26-17746

Karthikeyan Arul, Marc Noelken, Norbert Frank, Sophie Warken, and Christoph Spötl: Impacts on precision of the half-lives of U234 and Th230 using the Neptune MC-ICPMS with high ohmic resistors. EGU26-20096

Francisca Lövenich, Aaron Mielke, Christoph Spötl, Martin Werner, Ángel Acosta-Colón, Isabel Rivera Collazo, Amos Winter, and Sophie Warken: Assessing millennial to orbital-scale controls of Caribbean hydroclimate variability via data-model-comparisons. EGU26-10789

Gayatri Kathayat, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Tan Liangcheng, Xiyu Dong, Christoph Spötl, Hanying Li, Ponnusamy Saravanan, Haiwei Zhang, and Hai Cheng: The anatomy of the Indian summer monsoon variability during the penultimate deglaciation (Termination II). EGU26-16599

Aaron Mielke, Francisca Lövenich, Noreen Garcia, Christopher Charles, Frank Keppler, Isabel Rivera Collazo, Ángel A. Acosta-Colón, Amos Winter, Christoph Spötl, and Sophie Warken: Tropical Climate Variability During Interglacials of the Last 300,000 Years: Evaluation of High-Resolution LA-ICP-MS Trace-Element Data. EGU26-11197

Russell Drysdale, Timothy Pollard, Gianni Zanchetta, Eleonora Regattieri, Ilaria Isola, John Hellstrom, Jon Woodhead, Xianglei Li, Isabelle Couchoud, Lawrence Edwards, Julien Leger, Adrien Vezinet, Mathieu Däeron, Nele Meckler, Hai Cheng, Christoph Spötl, and Anthony Fallick: A speleothem record of the Mid-Brunhes Transition from southern Europe. EGU26-19357

Jasper Wassenburg, Julian Schröder, Alfred Skeidsvoll, Sayak Basu, Jenny Maccali, A. Nele Meckler, Alvaro Fernandez, Alexander Budsky, Daniel M. Cleary, Alfredo Martinez-Garcia, Yun Seok Yang, Yuna Oh, Hai Cheng, Christoph Spötl, and Hubert B. Vonhof: Improved accuracy of oxygen and hydrogen isotope analysis in speleothem fluid inclusions: the importance of crusher temperature. EGU26-16783