Sepp Kipfstuhl

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Joseph "Sepp" Kipfstuhl (born June 10, 1952 in Frettenshofen ) is a German meteorologist and glaciologist . He was a member of the first West German wintering team in the Antarctic at the Georg von Neumayer station . His scientific work has contributed significantly to today's understanding of processes in snow , firn and ice .

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life and work

Kipfstuhl was born in Bavaria as the oldest of four children and attended school in Sondersfeld and Eichstätt . He later studied meteorology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

In 1981, shortly after completing his studies, he moved to the then newly founded Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven and took part in his first Antarctic expedition. As a member of the first scientific wintering team at the Georg von Neumayer Station , which was built on the Ekström Ice Shelf in 1980 , he spent fifteen months in a row in the Antarctic. He then worked on his doctorate on the subject of "On the formation of underwater ice and the growth and energy balance of sea ice in Atka Bay, Antarctica", which he completed in 1990 at the University of Bremen .

He has spent his previous scientific career at the Alfred Wegener Institute, where he mainly deals with studies on polar ice cores . His special focus is on microscale processes in ice and their connection to processes on the large scale. In total, he took part in more than 32 national and international expeditions to the polar regions. He was involved in the drilling and analysis of many ice cores, both in Greenland and in Antarctica, such as B. GRIP , NGRIP , the EPICA ice cores, NEEM and EastGRIP . He was involved in the making of several documentaries and shared his scientific assessments in many interviews for articles in daily newspapers and magazines.

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  1. ↑ http://epic.awi.de/26262/
  2. ↑ https://www.awi.de/ueber-uns/organisation/mitarbeiter/sepp-kipfstuhl.html
  3. ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/microstructure-mapping-a-new-method-for-imaging-deformationinduced-microstructural-features-of-ice-on-the -grain-scale / 5B7CD1BA70B176C4565CD998C9F6B656
  4. ↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2008JB005583/epdf
  5. ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/videos/international/2012/12/04/greenland-secrets-in-ice-a.cnn
  6. ↑ Albert Gerdes: Researchers drilled into Greenland's ice and discovered the traces of past climatic disasters: Grim climatic capers . In: The time . No. 29/1993 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Gerald Traufetter: * 4. Planet Earth - Endangered Wealth * 4.1. Climate on the brink: EXPEDITION INTO THE ICE AGE . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 2000, ( Online - July 10, 2000 ).
  8. ↑ https://www.cn-online.de/cn-galerie/der-eismann-kom-nach-cuxhaven.html
personal data
SURNAME Kipfstuhl, Sepp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kipfstuhl, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German meteorologist and glaciologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Frettenshofen