The Conrad Observatory is an underground geophysical research facility of the Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in Austria.
It is named after the seismologist and climatologist Prof. Dr. Victor Conrad( 1876–1962) who was employed for many years at Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG).
Besides the financial support by the federal government and the province of Lower Austria, the construction has been made possible by the legacy of Conrad's widow, Ida F.
[2] By 2002 this legacy, donated to the ZAMG in order to set up a scientific research building, had increased to 1.2 million Euro, so that more than half of the first construction stage could be built thereby.
[4] Variations of the earth's gravitational field caused by tidal forces and geodynamic processes can be detected by high-precision measuring devices.
Besides these fields of investigation, the observatory is directly connected with the CTBTO (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization), a specialised agency of the United Nations.