Steffen, Konrad

LC control no.	n 85287419
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Steffen, Konrad *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Switzerland United States
Birth date	1952-01-02
Death date	2020-08-08
Place of birth	Zurich (Switzerland)
Place of death	Greenland
Field of activity	Glaciology
Affiliation	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich University of Colorado at Boulder. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Profession or occupation	Glaciologists
Found in	His Surface temperature and sea ice of ... 1985: t.p. (Konrad Steffen) 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)
Associated language	eng