Jakob Abermann, of the University of Graz, surveys ice using somewhat more modern methods than Alfred Wegener did in his day (Photo: Uni Graz / Andreas Trügler) Century-old weather records and snow and ice data collected by Alfred Wegener during his Greenland...
Excerpt from “Alfred Wegener’s Letzte Grönlandfahrt” Image: From “Alfred Wegener’s letzte Grönlandfahrt”, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1940 The project application by APRI member Jakob Abermann, University of Graz, which has recently been...
Alfred Lothar Wegener was born on November 1, 1880 in Berlin. Wegener was a German meteorologist as well as a polar and geoscientist. His theory of continental shift, which has become an essential basis for today’s model of plate tectonics, is considered to be...