This project uses speleothems to establish high-resolution proxy records for southeast Alaska

Our group has studied speleothems from this famous site in the desert over more than a decade

This project explored the long-term changes of permafrost along the Ural Mountains using both cryogenic cave carbonates and stalagmites as key archives

This project further developed and applied a set of classical and novel optical dating techniques to rock fall sites and deep-seated gravitational slope deformations in alpine contexts.

Layered ice in Alpine caves offers a largely untapped archive which we explored in an interdisciplinary project.

The Alps in a warmer world: speleothems offer unique insights in our climate future

The project used existing and recently developed OSL methods in novel ways in order to date the use of lithic quarries, the construction of stone arrangements and the accumulation of surface artefact scatters

This project investigated the climate, landscape and archaeological history of the upper Tibetan Plateau between 50 and 11 ka, the period when Homo sapiens first ventured into oxygen-depleted centre of High Asia.

This research project aimed to shed new light on the interpretation of palaeo-monsoon proxy data using fluid inclusions in speleothem calcite

Located at 2800 m altitude, this cave contains thick fossil flowstones which hold the key for a better understanding of glacial-interglacial climate change in the Dolomites

This project studied the Holocene evolution of stable isotopes in precipitation along a transect from the Atlantic seaboard into the largest continental mass on Earth

Widely regarded as the best analogue for the current interglacial, this period some 425,000 years ago was the target of a research project in our group

We studied an exceptionally thick succession of laminated lake sediments which provided unprecedented insights into inneralpine climate variability prior to the last ice age

This project led by Stefan Lauterbach established a 5000 yr-long calendar of flood events in the Eastern Alps based on new cores taken in Hallstätter See in summer 2016

Thick sediments in this major valley of the Karwendel Mountains record a history of repeated lake phases between the Last Glacial Maximum and the mid-Holocene

Located at 2800 m altitude, this cave is not only known for its cave bear remains but also contains fossil dripstones which tell a story about past climates in the Dolomites

The Alps are a hot spot of recent climate change and our goal was to establish a detailed framework of speleothems records for the Eastern Alps to better understand regional differences and forcing mechanisms

Speleothems are ideal candidates for investigate millennial-scale climate variability during glacial periods. We have shown that alpine stalagmites faithfully recorded these abrupt shifts

This project aimed at deciphering the history of sedimentation and erosion in one of the largest longitudinal valleys of the Alps, the lower Inn Valley, prior to the Last Glacial Maximum

The objective of this project was to test a set of methods that allow the identification and quantification of palaeowater-rock interaction during hypogene speleogenesis

We applied state-of-the-art OSL techniques to improve the chronological framework of loess-paleosol-sequences (LPS) in the foreland of the Salzach palaeo-glacier, Austria

This project aimed at exploring the palaeoenvironmental potential of ice deposits in some alpine caves and included th