Bernhard Stauffer
Bernhard Stauffer (born August 22, 1938 in Bern ) is a Swiss geophysicist . He was a professor at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern in the Climate and Environmental Physics department.
Stauffer studied physics at the ETH Zurich and then joined Hans Oeschger's group at the University of Bern, where he received his doctorate in 1966.
There he and colleagues developed methods to determine the carbon dioxide content of air bubbles in ice cores , which became an essential method for reconstructing the prehistoric climate from ice cores. In collaboration with colleagues from Grenoble , he also developed a method for determining the methane content from air bubbles in ice cores. He also led ice core projects in Greenland and the Antarctic , for example he was involved in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project and in the 2002/2003 season he was chief scientist of Epica (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica).
In 2001 he received the Weyprecht Medal of the German Society for Polar Research and in 2006 the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union . In the Antarctic, the Stauffer Bluff is named after him.
Fonts
- Stability of polar ice sheets. In: Physics in Our Time . Volume 13, 1982, issue 3, pp. 65-70, doi: 10.1002 / piuz.19820130301 (with a short biography).
- From alpine glaciers to exploring polar ice sheets. (PDF; 182 kB) In: Communications from the Natural Research Society in Bern. Volume 66, 2009, pp. 229-238.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 19th edition (2003). Vol. 3, p. 3264.
- ↑ Hans Oeschger Medal 2006
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| SURNAME | Stauffer, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |