Michael Sarnthein

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Michael Sarnthein (born July 15, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian climatologist , marine geologist and university lecturer . He had worked at Kiel University since 1966 and retired in 2004.

Life

Michael Sarnthein comes from the Tyrolean aristocratic family Sarnthein , who were raised to the status of hereditary-Austrian count in 1681 . Because of the abolition of titles of nobility and the ban on using aristocratic names in the Austrian constitution after the First World War, the family has since used its name without a nobility predicate. Michael Sarnthein was born on July 15, 1939 in Vienna. His parents were Johannes Graf von Sarnthein (1900–1976), state commissioner, and Annemarie Lotichius (1908–1999). During his early scientific career, he studied the development of upwelling off West Africa . He later tried to reconstruct the circulation patterns in the atmosphere based on the distribution of dust carried by wind. Sarnthein also carried out research in the field of paleo- oceanography of the Atlantic Ocean , carried out climate reconstructions for the North Atlantic and researched in the field of climate and environmental changes in monsoon regions .

Awards

In 1989 Sarnthein received the Leibniz Prize . In 2005 he was made a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and in 2006 received the Shepard Medal of the Society for Sedimentary Geology and the Milutin Milankovic Medal of the European Geosciences Union . In 2009 he was awarded the Gustav Steinmann Medal of the Geological Association for his services to research into the development of the Atlantic . In 1990 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 1994 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1995 he has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2005 he became a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Works (selection)

  • Climate change before human influence. Barth, Heidelberg 2001.
  • Preliminary report on Sonne 95 cruise "monitor monsoon" to the South China Sea. Geological-Paleontological Institute and Museum, Kiel 1994.
  • Short and long term global change. GEOMAR, Kiel 1992.
  • Report on METEOR trip 11-1, Hamburg - Ponta Delgada, Azores. Geological-Paleontological Inst. And Museum, Kiel 1989.
  • Report on the "Polarstern" trip ANT IV, 1c in the Equatorial Atlantic, GEOTROPEX '85. Geological-Paleontological Kiel, Inst. U. Museum, 1985.
  • Research vessel "Meteor", voyage N [umme] r 65, equatorial east Atlantic - GEOTROPEX '83. Geological-Paleontological Inst. U. Museum, Kiel 1983.
  • Meteor research results. Series C. Geology and Geophysics. No. 5. Surface sediments in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. 2. Quantitative component analysis of the coarse fraction. 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Volume 3, page 377, 2016
  2. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Volume 3, Page 378, 2016
  3. ↑ Goth. Genalog. Manual, Volume 3, page 378
  4. ^ Directory of members: Michael Sarnthein-Lotichius. Academia Europaea, accessed on July 16, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
personal data
SURNAME Sarnthein, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian climatologist, marine geologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna