Steffen, Konrad
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Name (Latin)
Steffen, Konrad
Date of birth
1952-01-02
Date of death
2020-08-08
Associated country
Switzerland
United States
Field of activity
Glaciology
Occupation
Glaciologists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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MARC
Sources of Information
- Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 13, 2020(in obituary dated Aug. 12, 2020: Konrad Steffen, who was one of the world's foremost climate scientists and whose 30-year study of Greenland's ice sheet confirmed the rising temperatures and sea levels that are a hallmark of global climate change, died Aug. 8 in Greenland. He was 68. His death was confirmed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where Dr. Steffen was a professor. Dr. Steffen was a glaciologist who did research at the world's two largest ice sheets, Antarctica and Greenland. Much of his work over the past 30 years was based on meticulous observations of changing conditions in Greenland, where in 1990 he established a research station known as Swiss Camp. During much of that time, he was a professor of geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he led the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). Konrad Steffen was born Jan. 2, 1952, in Zurich. Dr. Steffen studied engineering before volunteering to help a glaciologist with his fieldwork in the Arctic in the mid-1970s. He then focused on geography and climate science, receiving the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in 1977 and a doctorate in 1984, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (known as ETH Zurich). He joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 1991, eventually becoming a dual U.S.-Swiss citizen. In 2005, he became director of CIRES. In 2012, Dr. Steffen returned to ETH Zurich to teach and to lead the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, known by the initials WSL. He was also a professor of architecture and environmental engineering at a sister campus, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne)
- His Surface temperature and sea ice of ... 1985:t.p. (Konrad Steffen)