Institute Geophysics, University of Leoben, Austria (LEOB)
Role in the Network
  • Main relevant speciality research areas: consolidation and conservation of unconsolidated samples, underground sampling, prospection, environmental magnetism, mineral magnetism, instrumentation development.
  • Other factors: A major instrumentation facility in a building isolated from physical and electromagnetic disturbances, including accommodation for researchers. Access to microprobe facilities. A key location for early iron smelting and access to nearby Associated Countries.
Research Linkage

Team co-operation with Plymouth. Formal links with University of Munich for magnetic mineralogy

Senior Scientist

Prof. H. J. Mauritsch (e-mail: hermann.mauritsch@notes.unileoben.ac.at, Tel.: 0043 3842 402864, Fax: 0043 3842 402663)

Young researcher    
Dr. Elina Aidona (finished, now at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Project
  • Development of new sampling techniques, particularly for furnaces and roasting hearths
  • Consolidation techniques for weakly consolidated samples in situ using polymers.
  • Setting up a archaeo-spinner for larger samples
  • Investigating bronze age smelting activity.
  • Investigating Roman walls from the LIMES near Vienna.
Recent Publications
Chech, B. and G. Walach, Medieval gold and silver mining in the Hohe Tauern (Austria); Results of archaeological/archaeometric investigations. Proceedings of the 5th International History Congress, Milos Island, Greece, 2000.

Scholger, R., Heavy metal pollution monitoring by magnetic susceptibility measurements, applied to sediments of the River Mur, European Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 3, 25-37, 1998.
Web-Link
http://www.unileoben.ac.at/~geophwww/neu/equip_html/equip_gams.html