wire - kurze nachrichten

What happens when captured CO2 is pumped into the ground? Highly sophisticated computer simulations now make it possible to predict its long-term behaviour.

Where is the space to generate the legally required amount of photovoltaic electricity in Austria by 2030? A research Eleven terawatt hours (TWh) is the amount of electricity to be generated from photovoltaic systems in Austria in 2030.

Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Researcher Caroline Muller Promoted to Professor Caroline Muller , one of the first climate researchers to join the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in 2021, was promoted to full professor.

What could be more beautiful than collecting the alpine plants that are needed for the extraction in the research project directly from nature? Of course, you first need to know where these plant species grow in sufficient quantities.

April 29, 2024 C/O Vienna Magazine interview with ISTA Professor Francesca Pellicciotti Glaciers are not only tremendously beautiful but also tremendously alive.

An international team of scientists including Elisabeth Schlosser from the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences extensively documented an exceptional warming event in Antarctica.

Air monitoring measurements at the University of Innsbruck's atmospheric observatory show that carbon dioxide emissions in western Austria have fallen by around 20 percent since 2018.

By Falko Schoklitsch The effects of solar storms on the Earth's atmosphere can cause satellites to crash.

By Falko Schoklitsch Europe lacks groundwater - a lot of groundwater. The continent has already been suffering from a severe drought since 2018.

Who doesn't want a study programme with the best career prospects and individual orientation? One as diverse as planet Earth? Maybe it exists.

It has long been known that very old rocks exist in the Bohemian Massif, which stretches into northern Austria with the Daube carving out its lower boundary.

Christoph von Hagke took on his professorship post in geology at the PLUS on 1st October 2020. His research focuses on the interactions between mountain formation processes and climate change of both past and present, including in the foothill of the Alps.

By Birgit Baustädter TU Graz is digging deep, with several institutes making contributions to almost every important project in Austria.

The PLUS Green Campus Summer School goes the next round. From 17 to 21 July, 2017, students of the University of Salzburg will have the opportunity, together with Salzburg AG, to work on scientifically substantiated, practical concepts for answering important future questions.

Michael MÖLK (WLT Innsbruck): Dealing with the WLV gravitational natural hazards (rockfall and landslides): practical examples In der Wildbachund Lawinenverbauung gibt es drei Stabstellen.

Im Jahr 2015 traten 52 MitarbeiterInnen der Universität Wien den Ruhestand an. Am Mittwoch, 20. Jänner, bedankte sich Rektor Heinz W. Engl im Rahmen eines Empfangs für ihre langjährige Tätigkeit an der Universität Wien.

The effects of human activity on geologic, biologic and atmospheric processes are now larger than at any point in Earth's history.

Vortrag von Raquib Ahmed, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Mo 11. Uhr, HS 414.

Each year massive economic losses are suffered by farmers and the seed trade alike due to poor seed quality.

A new study shows that land-cover changes, in particular deforestation, in the vicinity of glaciers do not have an impact on glacier loss. However, the study, in which Innsbruck climate researcher were directly involved, also shows that deforestation decreases precipitation in mid elevation zones, which affects the quality of life of the population living in the surrounding areas.

A team of geologists of the University of Innsbruck the University of Leeds (UK) discovered the oldest radiometrically dated dripstones currently known from the European Alps.

In one of his songs Bob Dylan asks "How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?", and thus poses an intriguing geological question for which an accurate answer is not easily provided.

The Vening Meinesz Medal was awarded to Harald Schuh for his work in the field of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and his important contribution to space geodetic research.

bekam Dr.h.c. Harald Schuh, Vorstand des Instituts für Geodäsie und Geophysik der Technischen Universität Wien, die Vening Meinesz Medaille 2011 der European Geosciences Union (EGU) überreicht.

The quake in Japan released one million times more energy than the strongest earthquakes known from the Inn valley. Medieval earthquakes have caused remarkable damage in the Inn valley though. A research group at the Institute for Geology and Palaeontology under supervision of Prof. Rainer Brandner investigates geological reasons, in cooperation with the Seismological Survey of Austria.