Konrad Steffen
Konrad Steffen (born January 2, 1952 in Zurich ; † August 8, 2020 on the Greenland Ice Sheet ) was a Swiss glaciologist . He was director of the Federal Research Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape , Professor at the Institute for Atmosphere & Climate at ETH Zurich and Professor in the Department of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL Lausanne . In his professional career he has developed a number of measurement methods that have contributed to understanding the dynamics of the cryosphere .
Live and act
After his diploma (Dipl. Natw.), Which he received in 1977, he received his doctorate in 1984 on the subject of "Surface temperature of an arctic polynya : North Water in winter". Among other positions, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Glaciology - Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice from 1991 to 1992 , Chairman of the Polar Data Archive Distribution Advisory Group at NASA / EOSDIS from 1991 to 1999 and Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Glaciology - Cryosphere from 1999 to 2000 Models and Validation . From 1997 to 2005 he was Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder . From 2005 to 2012 he was director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences . In the fifth assessment report of the IPCC , he was the main author of the chapter on the cryosphere .
Steffen has written over 100 scientific publications in his career .
Steffen was a Swiss -US citizen . On August 8, 2020, at the age of 68, he had a fatal accident on an expedition in Greenland when he fell into a crevasse near the Swiss Camp base 70 km northeast of Ilulissat in the inland ice . He leaves behind his wife and two grown children.
Web links
- Konrad Steffen on the WSL website ( CV, PDF )
- List of publications at Google Scholar
- Martin Läubli: Greenland was his passion. In: Tages-Anzeiger , August 12, 2020.
- Thomas Stocker : Snow and ice were his passion. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 12, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Konrad Steffen at IEEE Xplore, accessed on August 10, 2020.
- ↑ researcherid.com. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Top researcher Konrad Steffen dies during an expedition. In: 20 minutes . August 10, 2020, accessed August 10, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steffen, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss glaciologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 2020 |
| Place of death | Greenland Ice Sheet |