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Katharine Hayhoe: Talking Climate - How to Catalyze Change in a Warming World

Lecture & Youtube Livestream

Thu, 19.10.2023, 16:15, UZA II, Lecture Hall 2 & online

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Symmetry and Unification: can physics be reduced to a single formula?

Lecture Hermann Nicolai

Tue, 26.11.2024, 17:00, Faculty of Physics

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System Change - Sex, Fire, and the Tipping Point of Life in Earth History

Big Picture Talk Mathias Harzhauser, NHM Vienna

Tue, 03.12.2024, 15:00, save the date!

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News & Views

22.10.2024

The Anthopocene is here to stay, over geological timescales

A new study by scientists of the Anthropocene Working Group - among them Michael Wagreich from the University of Vienna - shows that Earth history...

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09.10.2024

“Exploring our cosmic origins rooted in Earth’s history”

Currently visiting: David Fernández Remolar is Ida Pfeiffer Professor at our Faculty in the winter term 2024/25. In his research, the geobiologist is...

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09.10.2024

"Passionate about using big telescopes to explore new physics"

Currently visiting: In September 2024, astrophysicist Graham Smith joined the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy as Ida Pfeiffer...

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25.09.2024

Fig. 1: Bivalve shells. Fig. 1: A time series of predator-prey relationships in the northern Adriatic was established using the boreholes drilled by predatory snails in bivalve shells. C: Bettina Bachmann

Northern Adriatic: collapse of predator-prey relationships from the 1950s onwards

Predatory snails drill holes in the shells of their prey. Using these boreholes, a research team led by palaeontologist Martin Zuschin from the...

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16.09.2024

Currently visiting: Clemens Greiner

The social and cultural anthropologist Clemens Greiner is visiting professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Research until end of...

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29.08.2024

Marine sediments hosting abundant fossils dated in the Late Miocene, from about 8 to 7 million years ago. (C) Konstantina Agiadi

How a salt giant radically reshaped Mediterranean marine biodiversity

A new study paves the way to understanding biotic recovery after an ecological crisis in the Mediterranean Sea about 5.5 million years ago. An...

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Alumni-Newsletter

For alumni/ae & other interesed persons

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We are happy to send you news from the faculty and event tips 2-3 times a year!

To the Alumni Association of the University of Vienna

Dezember 2021

Klimawissen, Karriere-Pipelines und heißes Lava

[More information - Alumni of "Faculty of Exploration"]

Image brochure "Meet the Faculty for Exploration"

The Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy published for the first time in 2016 a brochure presenting the Faculty's research activities and study programmes (in English). We kindly invite you to meet the "Faculty for Exploration"! Direct access to our research articles:

The Universe at all Scales

The Whole Range of Environmental Processes

Stories in the Rocks

Planet Earth

The Genesis of Rocks

From the Sky Above Mountains into their Depths

The Power of Order

Life Through the Ages