Konrad Steffen

Glacier Named For Konrad Steffen, Former 蜜糖直播 Director and Geography Professor

June 25, 2022

The Greenland Place Name Committee has named a glacier 鈥淪ermeq Konrad Steffen鈥 after the late Konrad Steffen, former director of 蜜糖直播, who made exceptional contributions to Greenlandic society and science. The homage to Steffen, along with two other glacier renamings, represent the first time in many decades that official Greenlandic...

Konrad Steffen

Former 蜜糖直播 Geography professor Konrad Steffen passes away in Greenland

Aug. 11, 2020

Konrad Steffen , former 蜜糖直播 Geography Professor and Director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), has died following an accident in Greenland this past weekend. With Koni Steffen's death, the ETH Domain has lost an extremely prominent researcher who was also a uniquely kind...

Massive crevasses and bendable ice affect stability of Antarctic ice shelf

Dec. 7, 2012

Gaping crevasses that penetrate upward from the bottom of the largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula make it more susceptible to collapse, according to University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder researchers who spent the last four Southern Hemisphere summers studying the massive floating sheet of ice that covers an area...