Koni Steffen Death – Dead | Passed Away – Obituary
Koni Steffen Death – Dead: A great loss was made known to InsideEko. As friends and families of the deceased are mourning the passing of their loved and cherished Koni Steffen.
Having heard about this great loss, the family of this individual is passing through pains, mourning the unexpected passing of their beloved.
This departure was confirmed through social media posts made by Twitter users who pour out tributes, and condolences to the family of the deceased.
Our esteemed colleague and director of WSL, Konrad Steffen, tragically died during field work in Greenland. We are deeply saddened and our thoughts are with his family. With Koni we are losing an outstanding, generous and highly committed person.
Our esteemed colleague and director of WSL, Konrad Steffen, tragically died during field work in Greenland. We are deeply saddened and our thoughts are with his family. With Koni we are losing an outstanding, generous and highly committed person.
Link: https://t.co/9X4odcpkCw pic.twitter.com/BiM1cUeoFM— Michael Hengartner (@m_hengartner) August 10, 2020
This is beyond sad. We have lost a wonderful colleague. Koni Steffen was a great supporter of education and diversity, in addition to being an admired scientist. I met him when he funded CIRES participation in the SOARS program and he made sure to include SOARS proteges in the annual CIRES Science Rendezvous. I fell into an espresso habit because of him. Condolences to his family and colleagues
With deep sadness, I hear that Koni Steffen has passed away, killed by an accident in Greenland. It’s a bad week for losses of big, big friends and powerful defenders of the Earth. I love the scientific duet in this video between Koni and Loni.
And with great pain that I learn of Professor Konrad ′′ Koni ′′ Steffen’s death in an incident near Swiss Camp, the research station he had created in 1990 to study the interaction between climate and cryosphere. When in the middle of the lockdown we decided with con i2a to propose the Cineforum Raggio Verde in online version to talk about Clima that changes, one of the themes we wanted to address was the melting of ice caused by global warming, even more pronounced in the arctic. And to illustrate it, we chose two beautiful short films by Jason Van Bruggen. One more ethnographic: Keeper of the flame. The other more scientific: Melting Greenland. The protagonist of Melting Greenland was Professor Steffen filmed at Swiss Camp. I thought it was a great idea to have Professor Steffen as guest of the cineforum, invite him for an intervention and to talk with the audience, knowing him in person after meeting him in Melting Greenland. I never thought that Professor Steffen would accept. Instead, an hour after writing him an email, we were on the phone talking about the evening with enthusiasm, availability and generosity out of the ordinary. And the following Tuesday, Professor Steffen gave us an extraordinary lesson on Zoom telling us the story of Swiss Camp and the network of measuring stations he had built in Greenland, reconstructing the causes of accelerating ice melting – Greenland is the second largest solid-state water tank in the world after Antarctica – and the consequences of melting Arctic ice on sea level, wildlife and local communities. For almost two hours, Professor Steffen magnetized us in front of our screens with his passion, deep knowledge and extreme clarity in dealing with such complex issues. With Professor Steffen, the climate community has lost a great scientist and a great man.
Shocked and saddened by the loss of Koni Steffen here in Greenland this weekend. A brutal reminder that the ice sheets and glaciers we work on can be so unforgiving. My thoughts are with his family, friends and our community at this tragic time.
Shocked and saddened by the loss of Koni Steffen here in Greenland this weekend. A brutal reminder that the ice sheets and glaciers we work on can be so unforgiving. My thoughts are with his family, friends and our community at this tragic time. https://t.co/O1MmNkYank
— Alexandra Messerli (@icymesserli) August 10, 2020
Such sad news. Koni Steffen was director of CIRES when I started there as a postdoc. We overlapped doing field work in Summit Greenland, the home of his famous “Swiss Tower.” He will be sorely missed by the glaciology & polar climate communities.
Such sad news. Koni Steffen was director of CIRES when I started there as a postdoc. We overlapped doing field work in Summit Greenland, the home of his famous “Swiss Tower.” He will be sorely missed by the glaciology & polar climate communities. @CIRESnews https://t.co/62Ya37mNY0
— David Schneider, Ph.D. (@climatemoon) August 10, 2020
Our glaciological community has lost a wonderful human being, a true leader and sharp scientist, in a tragic fieldwork accident on his beloved Greenland ice sheet. My thoughts are with Koni Steffen’s family and friends.
Our glaciological community has lost a wonderful human being, a true leader and sharp scientist, in a tragic fieldwork accident on his beloved Greenland ice sheet. My thoughts are with Koni Steffen’s family and friends. https://t.co/13R06giiZt
— Hester Jiskoot (@glasheologist) August 10, 2020
We are still working on getting more details about the death, as family statement on the death is yet to be released.