Right before Christmas we received notice that our proposal about the Asian Monsoon was among the successful grants of the second call of the Austrian Academy of Sciences´s Innovation Fund.

We welcome Paul Wilcox in our group. Paul studied the climate history of SE Alaska during his PhD and will now work on the Last Interglacial here in the Alps for the next two years, in the framework of an FWF project.

The first comprehensive book on ice caves was recently published with three contributions by member of our group.

It took longer than expected but now it is finished: a short movie about our ongoing research in Nevada.

We recently finished setting up a new web-based database of worldwide monitoring activities in caves, providing an easy-to-use tool to coordinate and support such programs.

After a year at Innsbruck our guest and friend Haiwei Zhang returned to China. We hope to see him soon again.

After three years we returned to this unique cave in the Dolomites and successfully cored what might be the thickest deposit of a flowstone in an alpine cave.

Funding has been awarded by the HypoTirol bank and the British Cave Research Association for research into past permafrost environments in the UK.

A film crew joined us on a trip to an alpine cave, Obstanser Eishöhle, where we do research in collaboration with scientists from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Today Gabriella Koltai had her big day and she successfully presented and defended her PhD thesis.

Together with colleagues from the GFZ Potsdam Stefan Lauterbach carried out field work in Kyrgyzstan, aiming at reconstructing climate variability during the Holocene

Samuel Barrett successfully defended his PhD thesis and will soon receive his doctoral degree.

A 911 page volume was published on caves formed by upwelling groundwater, including four contributions from our group.

In a recent field work campaign, Luke Gliganic excavated Stone Arrangement sites in W Australia with the aim

Sanja Vranjes and Hans Kitzmüller successfully finished their Master program.

July marked the start of a new project and we searched a number of caves in the Sennes-Fosses area of the Dolomites for traces of palaeoclimate and landscape evolution.

Along with the colleagues from the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Dublyansky completed field work in the Northern Ural Mountains.

Marc Luetscher co-authored a recent review article on speleothems as high-resolution paleoflood archives.

The world´s highest-elevation population of cave bears found in Conturines Cave (Dolomites) is older than previously

After a successful and enjoyable visit by four members of our research group to KR8 in Austin, Texas, we are delighted to announce that we will be hosting KR9 in Innsbruck in 2020.

A warm welcome to Charlotte Honiat who will do an internship in our research group until the end of June.

Strong turn-out for our research group at EGU 2017.

A 30 minute behind-the scenes film has been released of our recent IMAX filming work at Devils Hole, Nevada

This was the motto of a special one-day workshop on cave photography by professional photographer Robbie Shone.

A warm welcome to Maialen ("Maia") Lopez Elorza from Madrid University, who is our guest until July.

Our choice for this year´s social group meeting was a visit to Schloß Tratzberg, followed by a great dinner.

In a recent field work campaign Michael Meyer sampled stratified Paleolithic archaeological sediments for OSL dating in the course of ongoing excavations at the site of Al Jamrab.

After 16 years of operation we recently replaced our workhorse in the Stable Isotope Laboratory by a new mass spectrometer.

GEO Magazine reported about Cenote cave in the Dolomites, explored by a team including people from our group.

The Last Interglacial in the Alps is the target of a research proposal which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund.

The Autonomous Province of South Tyrol has funded a new research project to continue our interdisciplinary work on the high-alpine Conturines Cave in the Dolomites.

Our team returned to Devils Hole, Nevada, for two weeks.

Zhijun Wang successfully defended his doctoral thesis on travertine deposits from the Tibetan Plateau. Congratulations!

A study led by Michael Meyer shows that human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau started earlier than previously thought.