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Christoph Spötl

Christoph Spötl

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Earth Science
Austria
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
75
Citations
21813
World Ranking
706
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Christoph Spötl is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, Paleontology, and Archeology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Among their recent publications are the following:

  • "Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Collapse of the Liangzhu and other Neolithic cultures in the lower Yangtze region in response to climate change" (2021), published in Science Advances
  • "Dual clumped isotope thermometry resolves kinetic biases in carbonate formation temperatures" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "A data-model comparison pinpoints Holocene spatiotemporal pattern of East Asian summer monsoon" (2021), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Increased autumn and winter precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum in the European Alps" (2021), published in Nature Communications

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Climate of the past
  • Scientific Reports

Christoph Spötl collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Hai Cheng
  • R. Lawrence Edwards
  • Yuri Dublyansky
  • Gabriella Koltai
  • Haiwei Zhang

Best Publications

  • The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

    Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Ashish Sinha;Christoph Spötl

  • Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Chuan Chou Shen;Victor J. Polyak

  • Modification and preservation of environmental signals in speleothems

    Ian J. Fairchild;Claire L. Smith;Andy Baker;Lisa Fuller

  • Continuous‐flow isotope ratio mass spectrometric analysis of carbonate minerals

    Christoph Spötl;Torsten W. Vennemann

  • Cave air control on dripwater geochemistry, Obir Caves (Austria): Implications for speleothem deposition in dynamically ventilated caves

    Christoph Spötl;Ian J. Fairchild;Anna F. Tooth

  • The climatic cyclicity in semiarid‐arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years

    H. Cheng;H. Cheng;P. Z. Zhang;C. Spötl;R. L. Edwards

  • High-precision and high-resolution carbonate 230Th dating by MC-ICP-MS with SEM protocols

    Chuan Chou Shen;Chung Che Wu;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards

  • Reconstruction of temperature in the Central Alps during the past 2000 yr from a δ18O stalagmite record

    A. Mangini;C. Spötl;P. Verdes

  • Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales.

    Gayatri Kathayat;Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Ashish Sinha;Christoph Spötl

  • In situ U-series dating by laser-ablation multi-collector ICPMS: new prospects for Quaternary geochronology

    Stephen M. Eggins;Rainer Grün;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Alistair W.G. Pike

  • North Atlantic storm track changes during the Last Glacial Maximum recorded by Alpine speleothems

    Marc Luetscher;Ronny Boch;Harald Sodemann;Christoph Spötl

  • Carbon mass-balance modelling and carbon isotope exchange processes in dynamic caves

    Silvia Frisia;Ian J. Fairchild;Jens Fohlmeister;Renza Miorandi

  • Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics.

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Haiwei Zhang;Christoph Spötl;Jonathan Baker

  • Stalagmite from the Austrian Alps reveals Dansgaard-Oeschger events during isotope stage 3:. Implications for the absolute chronology of Greenland ice cores

    Christoph Spötl;Augusto Mangini

  • Climate variations of Central Asia on orbital to millennial timescales

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Christoph Spötl;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach;Ashish Sinha

  • Uranyl Incorporation in Natural Calcite

    S. D. Kelly;M. G. Newville;L. Cheng;K. M. Kemner

  • Palaeoclimate records 60–8 ka in the Austrian and Swiss Alps and their forelands

    Oliver Heiri;Karin A. Koinig;Christoph Spötl;Sam Barrett

  • Palaeoenvironmental significance of carbon- and oxygen-isotope stratigraphy of marine Triassic–Jurassic boundary sections in SW Britain

    Christoph Korte;Stephen P. Hesselbo;Hugh C. Jenkyns;Rosalind E.M. Rickaby

  • Groundwater dolocretes from the Upper Triassic of the Paris Basin, France: a case study of an arid, continental diagenetic facies

    Christoph Spötl;V. P. Wright

  • Climate variability in the SE Alps of Italy over the past 17 000 years reconstructed from a stalagmite record

    Silvia Frisia;Andrea Borsato;Christoph Spötl;Igor Maria Villa

  • Corrigendum: The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations.

    Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Ashish Sinha;Christoph Spötl

Frequent Co-Authors

Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Denis Scholz
Denis Scholz Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Augusto Mangini
Augusto Mangini Heidelberg University
R. Lawrence Edwards
R. Lawrence Edwards University of Minnesota
Silvia Frisia
Silvia Frisia University of Newcastle Australia
Ian J. Fairchild
Ian J. Fairchild University of Birmingham
Andrea Borsato
Andrea Borsato University of Newcastle Australia
Haiwei Zhang
Haiwei Zhang Xi'an Jiaotong University
Klaus Peter Jochum
Klaus Peter Jochum Max Planck Society
Detlev K. Richter
Detlev K. Richter Ruhr University Bochum

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