Gernot Patzelt

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Gernot Patzelt (* 1939 ) is an Austrian geographer , high mountain researcher and polar researcher .

Life

Gernot Patzelt received his doctorate in 1968 with the work Die Gletscher der Venedigergruppe under Hans Kinzl at the University of Innsbruck and subsequently worked as an assistant at the local institute for meteorology and geophysics and at the geographic institute. He completed his habilitation in 1979 and was head of the Research Institute for High Mountain Research from 1980 to 1999 and at the same time head of the Alpine Research Center in Obergurgl in Tyrol . Between 1994 and 1996 he was head of the Institute for Geography and since 1999 head of the Institute for High Mountain Research and Alpine Agriculture and Forestry. From his appointment as professor in 1992 until his retirement in 2004, he represented the subject of high mountain research at the University of Innsbruck.

Research work

Patzelt conducts research on climate history and landscape development, especially in the Alpine region . From 1981 to 2009 he headed the glacier measurement service of the Austrian Alpine Club .

Gernot Patzelt was also involved in research on the “ Ötzi ” find. On September 25, 1991, shortly after the glacier mummy was discovered, he was there to find and recover the quiver with 12 arrows. In the following years he examined the climatic conditions that contributed to the exceptionally good preservation of the mummy.

Statements on climate change

In 2007 Patzelt admitted an anthropogenic influence on global warming , but warned against "jumping to conclusions": "What has happened so far is astonishingly undramatic - the catastrophe has so far only taken place on the computer." His investigations on ice cores and lake deposits in high valleys would suggest that warm phases such as the current 12,000 years were nothing unusual. His paper The post-glacial climate development in the Alps compared to the temperature development of the present appeared in 2014 in the series of publications of the European Institute for Climate and Energy , a climate change denial association. After 2010, Patzelt was a member of the EIKE advisory board for several years

Antarctic expeditions

Patzelt took part in five Antarctic expeditions to western Dronning Maud Land , three of which he led. Among other things, he researched the glaciological conditions in the vicinity of the EPICA drilling location and looked for traces of the permocarbon glaciation around 300 million years ago in Heimefrontfjella . In addition, he worked with the Alfred Wegener Institute from 1983 to 2002 and trained the winterers at the German Georg von Neumayer Station .

A nunatak in Heimefrontfjella was named Patzeltsporn in 2010 .

Membership in scientific organizations

Fonts

  • The late glacial stages and postglacial fluctuations of Eastern Alpine glaciers, 1972
  • The modern glacier fluctuations in the Venediger Group, 1973
  • The postglacial glacier and climate fluctuations in the Venediger Group, 1973 (together with Sigmar Bortenschlager )
  • Unterinntal-Zillertal Pinzgau, Kitzbühel. Late and post-glacial landscape development, 1975
  • The chronological sequence and extent of postglacial climatic fluctuations in the Alps, 1977
  • Methodical studies of the snow line in alpine glacier areas, 1977 (together with Günther Groß and Hanns Kerschner)
  • New results from late and post-glacial research in Tyrol, 1980
  • The Austrian glacier inventory: status and first results, 1980
  • Permafrost mapping in the area of ​​the Hochebenkar block glacier, Obergurgl Ötztal Alps, 1982 (together with Wilfried Haeberli) pdf
  • The period of glacier advances in the Alps, 1965 to 1980, 1985
  • Model study Ötztal - landscape history in the high mountain region, 1996 pdf
  • Investigations into the Holocene glacier development of Pasterze and Gepatschferner, 2001 (together with Kurt Nicolussi) pdf
  • The landslides from Pletzachkogel, Kramsach, Tyrol, 2012 pdf
  • The landslides from Tschirgant and Haiming, Oberinntal, Tyrol, 2012 pdf
  • Dating of fireplaces in prehistoric shepherds' huts in the forest border area of ​​eastern alpine mountain groups, 2013
  • Landslides in the 2nd millennium BC Chr. In the Eastern Alps, 2013
  • The apron of the Vernagtferner and its surroundings, 2013 pdf
  • The post-glacial climate development in the Alps compared to the temperature development of the present, 2014 ( European Institute for Climate and Energy )
  • The fragment of a mammoth tooth from Fritzens (Inntal, Tyrol) and its position in the chronology of the Eastern Alpine Late Pleistocene, 2014 pdf
  • Holocene glacier and forest border development in the area of ​​the Schlatenkees, Venediger Group, East Tyrol (Austria), 2015
  • The post-glacial development of the Kundl alluvial fan and the valley area in the Inn Valley (Tyrol), 2015 (together with Alexandra Weber) pdf
  • The colorful moor in Oberfernau (Stubai Alps, Tyrol) - A newly edited key point for knowledge of the post-glacial fluctuations in glaciers in the Eastern Alps, 2016 pdf
  • The length measurements of the Alpine Club on Eastern Alpine glaciers, 2018
  • Glaciers - Climate Witnesses from the Ice Age to the Present, 2019, ISBN 978-3775745352

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PES press release of April 10, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.alpenverein.at  
  2. ↑ Andreas Lippert : Discovery and recovery of the glacier man. In: Alfred Payrleitner (Ed.) The witness from the glacier. Ueberreuter, Vienna, 1992, p. 32
  3. ^ Brenda Fowler: Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier. Univ. Chicago Press, 2000, p. 130.
  4. ^ Die Weltwoche, Zurich, 44/02 ( Memento from August 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Manfred Pietschmann: The long way to Gondwana . In: Geo-Knowledge . 4, 1990, pp. 30-41.
  6. ^ Gernot Patzelt & Joachim Jacobs: Further investigations on permocarbon icing . In: Reports on polar research . 86, 1991, pp. 102-103.
  7. ↑ Script for the AWI mountain course, p. 4-5  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 2.1 MB) accessed on July 6, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vbg.de  
  8. ↑ 12. Supplement to the 2nd edition. Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN), May 2010, accessed August 13, 2018 .
  9. ^ Directory of former members. In: hochgebirgsforschung.de. Retrieved July 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Patzelt, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer, high mountain researcher and polar researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1939