Dietrich Möller (geodesist)
Dietrich Möller (* December 18, 1927 in Greiz ; † September 6, 2015 ) was a German geodesist and longstanding professor of geodesy and its applications at the TU Braunschweig .
Life
At the Braunschweig Institute for Geodesy and Photogrammetry , Möller's research was primarily concerned with the displacements of the earth's crust in Iceland . Even before the age of GPS , he and Karl Gerke and Wolfgang Torge documented the process of volcanic crevices and the creation of new earth crust in northern Iceland. He also wrote research reports and glacial geodetic work on the mass budget and the dynamics of ice shelves in the Antarctic and on the Greenland ice sheet . Möller retired in 1993. Since 1981 he has been a full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .
Honors
- In 1986 an observed ice flow in the Antarctic was named after him as a Möllereisstrom in recognition of his services in various Greenland expeditions . It is the ice stream with the coordinates 82 ° 20 ' S , 63 ° 30' W .
- From 1976 to 1996 he was chairman of the German Society for Polar Research . In 1998 this awarded him the Weyprecht Medal .
- The Möller Trough deep-sea trench in the Antarctic Weddell Sea has been named after it since 1996 .
Fonts (selection)
- Contributions to barometric altitude measurement. Dissertation. Karlsruhe 1962.
- with Günter Weimann (Ed.): Contributions to the Carl Koppe Memorial Colloquium of the Institute for Surveying and the Chair for Photogrammetry and Cartography at the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig: on November 13, 1981. Bayer publishing house. Akad. D. Wiss., Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7696-9665-4 .
literature
- Contributions from geodesy, glaciology and meteorology to the completion of the 60th year of life by o. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietrich Möller on December 18, 1987. Inst. For surveying; Inst. For photogrametry and cartography, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-926146-02-8 .
Web links
- Institute for Geodesy and Photogrammetry at the TU Braunschweig
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituaries
- ↑ The German Society for Polar Research eV - Honors ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on dgp-ev.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Möller, Dietrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geodesist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greiz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 2015 |