The “Swiss Camp” established by Koni Steffen on the Greenland Ice Sheet was one of his favorite places. The busy researcher was drawn here every year to advance his own work, but also that of other researchers. This earned him the nickname...
Konrad Steffen (68) was one of the best-known researchers in Switzerland. The former director of the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape WSL shaped Swiss climate, glacier and polar research for years. He died in an accident in Greenland in...
Sermeq Konrad Steffen, as the newly named glacier is called, is a terminal glacier flowing into the Arctic Ocean and is also emblematic of Konrad Steffen, who was closely associated with Greenland’s ice sheet and who also died in an accident there. Image:...
Konrad “Koni” Steffen (far right), who died in 2020, promoted the establishment of the “Swiss Camp” in Greenland and accompanied young scientists there to support them in their work on climate effects on the cryosphere. This was extraordinarily...
The Swiss Camp was located about 80 kilometres from the town of Ilulissat on the Greenland ice sheet. For 30 years, among other things, the influence of climate change on the cryosphere was studied here, until this influence now also cost the camp. Image:...