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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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Schnee war gestern: Klimawandel in den Alpen

"Umwelt im Gespräch" - Forschungsverbund Umwelt und Klima

Di, 08.10.2024, 18:00, NHM Wien

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Natural hydrogen exploration: Where do we stand?

Gabor Tari (OMV) within GEAR - Geoenergy and Applied Research Lecture Series

Thu, 10.10.2024, 17:00, UZA II

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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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20.08.2024

Figure 1: Response of surface temperature (top) and precipitation (bottom) to a quadrupling of atmospheric carbon dioxide © Aiko Voigt CC BY 4.0

Modelling the impact of geoengineering at the Vienna Scientific Cluster

Meteorology master students were able to model the impact of different geoengineering options like space mirrors and stratospheric aerosol at the...

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20.08.2024

Students presenting their posters at the poster fair at Kulturhaus Brotfabrik (Michael Kloiber, 2024)

What the Food? Exploring Alternative Urban Food Systems

As part of the 2024 summer semester’s Practical Exercises in Urban Geography and Planning course on Urban Food Systems, led by Yvonne Franz and James...

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29.07.2024

How the first vertebrate predators evolved their teeth

Study reveals drivers of evolution in feeding structures of the earliest vertebrates: A study recently published in Nature Communication with...

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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