Georg Kaser (glaciologist)

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Georg Kaser (born April 1953 in Merano ) is a South Tyrolean glaciologist and is considered one of the most influential climate researchers in the world. He worked twice as lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 together with Al Gore .

Life

Georg Kaser was born in April 1953 in Meran in South Tyrol. He completed his studies of meteorology and geography at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck , which he began in 1973, with a dissertation on the subject of "Evaporation of Snow and Ice". The habilitation on "Glaciers in the Tropics" followed in 1996.

Parallel to his studies, Kaser worked from 1973 to 1982 in the research project “Combined studies of the ice, water and heat balance of glaciated catchment areas”. In 1984 he received a grant from the Swiss Natural Research Society , which enabled him to work at the ETH Zurich . He also worked in Alaska as a member of the Juneau Ice Rink Research Project . From 1984 to 1985 he was a contract assistant at the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Innsbruck, in 1985 he moved to the Institute for Geography, where he initially worked as a university assistant. From 1997 to 2010 he was Associate Professor at the Institute for Geography, since then he has been Professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research at the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics and Chairman of the Center for Climate and Cryosphere at the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck.

His research interests lie in the mass and energy balance of glaciers , in climate fluctuations and glaciers, in the glaciology, climatology and hydrology of tropical mountain regions and in global mass changes of glaciers and their drivers.

In 2017 Kaser was elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • G. Kaser, A. Fountain, P. Jansson: A manual for monitoring the mass balance of mountain glaciers - with particular attention to low latitude characteristics. International Commission on Snow and Ice (ICSI), 2002 ( online ; PDF; 3.1 MB)
  • G. Kaser, M. Großhauser, B. Marzeion: Contribution potential of glaciers to water availibility in differ-ent climate regimes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 107, 2010, pp. 20223-20227.
  • G. Kaser et al .: Is the decline of ice on Kilimanjaro unprece-dented in the Holocene? The Holocene, 20, 2010, pp. 1079-1091.
  • L. Ajai et al .: Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene. A Report by the Working Group Commissioned by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The Vatican, May 2, 2011, pp. 15th
  • T. Mölg and G. Kaser: A new approach to resolving climate-cryosphere relations: Downscaling climate dynamics to glacier-scale mass and energy balance without statistical scale linking. In: Journal of Geophysical Research , 116, 2011, pp. D16101.

Awards

  • "Lead Author" in the 4th IPCC Report , Working Group 1 "The physical science basis" (2004–2007)
  • "Lead Author" in the 5th IPCC Report , Working Group 1 "The physical science basis" (2010-2013)
  • As co-author of the 4th IPCC Assessment Report: Nobel Peace Prize 2007 (to IPCC and Al Gore)
  • Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Gasser: Glacier researcher Georg Kaser. On smooth ice. In: Zeit Online. November 21, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Head of the Week: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg Kaser. University of Innsbruck, February 12, 2007, accessed on November 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Curriculum Vitae Georg Kaser. January 2015, accessed October 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Georg Kaser. European Forum Alpbach, accessed on November 25, 2013 .
  5. ↑ High distinction for climate researchers. ORF, Landesstudio Tirol, accessed on October 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaser, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian glaciologist (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH April 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Meran