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Karl Krainer is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research outputs are concentrated primarily in Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics with notable focus on:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species

Karl Krainer has published in several academic venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geomorphology
  • Grundwasser
  • Water Resources Research
  • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen

Frequent collaborators include Gerfried Winkler, Thomas Wagner, Simon Seelig, Spencer G. Lucas, and Roberto Seppi, reflecting ongoing cooperative research efforts in related fields.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Karl Krainer include:

  • Assessment of liquid and solid water storage in rock glaciers versus glacier ice in the Austrian Alps, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Two distinct episodes of marine anoxia during the Permian-Triassic crisis evidenced by uranium isotopes in marine dolostones, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Analyses of UAV and GNSS based flow velocity variations of the rock glacier Lazaun (Ötztal Alps, South Tyrol, Italy), 2020, Geomorphology
  • The first consistent inventory of rock glaciers and their hydrological catchments of the Austrian Alps, 2020, Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft/Austrian journal of earth sciences
  • The Artinskian Warming Event: an Euramerican change in climate and the terrestrial biota during the early Permian, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • A 10,300-year-old permafrost core from the active rock glacier Lazaun, southern Ötztal Alps (South Tyrol, northern Italy)

    Karl Krainer;David Bressan;Benjamin Dietre;Jean Nicolas Haas

  • Hydrology of Active Rock Glaciers: Examples from the Austrian Alps

    Karl Krainer;Wolfram Mostler

  • Recent Interannual Variations of Rock Glacier Creep in the European Alps.

    R Delaloye;E Perruchoud;M Avian;Kaufmann

  • Internal structure and ice content of Reichenkar rock glacier (Stubai Alps, Austria) assessed by geophysical investigations

    H. Hausmann;K. Krainer;E. Brückl;W. Mostler

  • Palaeoecology of an Early Permian playa lake trace fossil assemblage from Castle Peak, Texas, USA

    Nicholas J. Minter;Karl Krainer;Spencer G. Lucas;Simon J. Braddy

  • Dynamics of an active rock glacier (Ötztal Alps, Austria)

    Jana Berger;Karl Krainer;Wolfram Mostler

  • Impact of mountain permafrost on flow path and runoff response in a high alpine catchment

    M. Rogger;G. B. Chirico;H. Hausmann;K. Krainer

  • Evidence of rock glacier melt impacts on water chemistry and diatoms in high mountain streams

    Hansjörg Thies;Ulrike Nickus;Monica Tolotti;Richard Tessadri

  • Flow velocities of active rock glaciers in the Austrian Alps

    Karl Krainer;Xiubin He

  • Assessment of liquid and solid water storage in rock glaciers versus glacier ice in the Austrian Alps.

    Thomas Wagner;Simon Kainz;Kay Helfricht;Andrea Fischer

  • The Artinskian Warming Event: an Euramerican change in climate and the terrestrial biota during the early Permian

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  • Reichenkar rock glacier: a glacier derived debris-ice system in the western Stubai Alps, Austria

    Karl Krainer;Wolfram Mostler

  • Two distinct episodes of marine anoxia during the Permian-Triassic crisis evidenced by uranium isotopes in marine dolostones

    Feifei Zhang;Shu zhong Shen;Ying Cui;Timothy M. Lenton

  • The first consistent inventory of rock glaciers and their hydrological catchments of the Austrian Alps

    Thomas Wagner;Roswitha Pleschberger;Simon Kainz;Markus Ribis

  • Precise age and biostratigraphic significance of the Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstätte, Pennsylvanian of New Mexico, USA

    Spencer G. Lucas;Bruce D. Allen;Karl Krainer;James Barrick

  • SMALLER FORAMINIFERS, CHARACTERISTIC ALGAE AND PSEUDO-ALGAE OF THE LATEST CARBONIFEROUS-EARLY PERMIAN RATTENDORF GROUP,CARNIC ALPS (AUSTRIA/ITALY)

    Daniel Vachard;Karl Krainer

  • Late- and Post-Variscan Sediments of the Eastern and Southern Alps

    K. Krainer

  • Facies and biostratigraphy of the Late Carboniferous/Early Permian sedimentary sequence in the Carnic Alps (Austria/Italy)

    Karl Krainer;Vladimir Davydov

  • Hydrology of Active Rock Glaciers: Examples from the Austrian Alps

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  • Analyses of UAV and GNSS based flow velocity variations of the rock glacier Lazaun (Ötztal Alps, South Tyrol, Italy)

    Christine Fey;Karl Krainer

  • Abiogenic silica layers within a fluvio-lacustrine succession, Bolzano Volcanic Complex, northern Italy: a Permian analogue for Magadi-type cherts?

    Karl Krainer;Christoph Spötl

  • The Lower Triassic Werfen Formation of the Karawanken Mountains (Southern Austria) and its disaster survivor microfossils, with emphasis on Postcladella n. gen. (Foraminifera, Miliolata, Cornuspirida)

    Karl Krainer;Daniel Vachard

  • SMALLER FORAMINIFERS OF THE UPPER CARBONIFEROUS AUERNIG GROUP, CARNIC ALPS (AUSTRIA/ITALY)

    Daniel Vachard;Karl Krainer

Frequent Co-Authors

Spencer G. Lucas
Spencer G. Lucas New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Daniel Vachard
Daniel Vachard University of Lille
William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution
Stephan Gruber
Stephan Gruber Carleton University
Shu-zhong Shen
Shu-zhong Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Edoardo Cremonese
Edoardo Cremonese CIMA Research Foundation
Hua Zhang
Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Claudia Notarnicola
Claudia Notarnicola European Academy of Bozen
Paolo Gabrielli
Paolo Gabrielli The Ohio State University

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