Wolfgang Eder (geologist)
Franz Wolfgang Eder (* 1942 ) is a German geologist .
Life
From 1961 Eder studied geology in Tübingen, Göttingen and Munich. In 1966 he received his diploma in Göttingen, then worked there as a research assistant and received his doctorate in 1970 in Göttingen (reef-near lime-turbidites of the Middle Donon, Garbecker lime, Germany). Afterwards he was scientific secretary of the special research area "SFB 48" (development, existence and properties of the earth's crust) in Göttingen and 1981 to 1991 secretary of the geocommission of the German Research Foundation in Bonn. In this function he was also the national representative of the IGCP (International Geoscience Program) and ILP (International Lithosphere Program) and was involved in the organization of the KTB (German Continental Deep Drilling Project) and the establishment of GEOMAR in Kiel. From 1992 to 2005 he was Director of the Geosciences Department at UNESCO in Paris. In this role he was significantly involved in the development of an international Geopark initiative and Secretary of IGCP.
Since 2008 he has been an honorary member of the Geological Association , a member of the Academy of Geosciences in Hanover and a corresponding member of the Federal Geological Institute in Vienna.
He was co-editor of Intercontinental fold belts (from 1983).
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| SURNAME | Eder, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eder, Franz Wolfgang (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |