The Quaternary, the last 2. 6 million years of geological time, saw major climatic changes which caused ice sheets to advance intotemperate latitudes. Repeated glacial episodes caused significant fluctuations in sea level, major geographical changes and major plant and animal population migrations. Sedimentary sequences record these changes in great detail and are central to unravelling past events. Its constituent research groups are based in the Departments of Geography.

Monitoring isotopes online in caves. In collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific we recently installed a laser-based spectrometer in Spannagel Cave to record isotopic changes in cave air carbon dioxide. Refining the age of a giant landslide. The largest prehistoric landslide in the Central Alps, at Köfels in the Ötz Valley, was recently re-dated to within 30 years uncertainty. A new climate record from the Pyrenees.

DETAILED PLAY and POEM COMMENTARIES. OUT of DARWIN, WITTGENSTEIN, and DUCHAMP. PRESS RELEASE 29 Feb 2012.

Two PhD students, two hemispheres, one blog. North-South glacier asynchrony during the Holocene. Well-constrained reconstruction of glacier activity during the Holocene epoch.