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Scientists remember ‘Koni’ Steffen, glaciologist who died after fall into crevasse in Greenland – Yale Climate Connections
Steffen’s passing is ‘a great loss to the global glaciological community,’ said Ohio State University’s Lonnie Thompson.
(Inset photo credit: World Meteorological Organization / Flickr – cropped)
If, as they say, passing on – aka dying – is best when it comes “doing the thing they most enjoyed and loved doing,” then Konrad Steffen did it the right way, his way.
One of the world’s leading Greenland ice scientists, the 68-year-old Koni (pronounced as in “Connie”) Steffen died in early August after falling into an ice crevasse near Illuissat in Greenland. For more than three decades, he had conducted ambitious rese…
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