Description: This photographic archive holds 3000 slides taken by professor Gernot Patzelt during his academic work at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. After his graduation there in 1966, he worked mainly as glaciologist and high mountain researcher in the Eastern Alps. Some of his research trips, however, also took him into the Pamir Mountains, on Mount Kenya and into Nepal. Between 1985/86 and 1997/98, he led three AWI expeditions into Dronning Maud Land and participated in another two. From 1980 to 2004, Gernot Patzelt worked at the Institute for High Mountain Research of the University of Innsbruck, from 1992 as professor of High Mountain Research. Gernot Patzelt headed the glacier monitoring service of the Austrian Alpenverein from 1981 to 2009. Glaciological work is a feature of the entire oeuvre of Gernot Patzelt, starting in the 1960s with capturing Holocene glacier changes in soil profiles, in cooperation with vegetation ecologist Sigmar Bortenschlager. The comparison of changes in the glaciers with historical evidence, especially paintings, dendrochronological results, pollen analyses and C14 dating of macro-remains, is a special effort that has led to a better understanding of Holocene shifts in glacier extent and tree line, especially on Gepatschferner and Pasterze, but also on other Austrian glaciers. The current collection also includes a series of pictures documenting dendrochronological findings and soil profiles, as well as repeat photography of glacier states. Further main research themes for Patzelt, in connection with his research on the occasion of the discovery of Ötzi (Fred) the ice man, are historic and prehistoric land use in high mountains as well as landscape development, with a focus on rock fall. Early on this research was integrated into the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program in connection with the Obergurgl Alpine Research Station. Today it fits seamlessly into the context of the co-evolution of man and the environment in a changing planet.
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Tags: Vegetation ? Baum ? Gletscher ? Bodenprofil ? Flächennutzung ? Hochgebirge ? Alpen ? Fotografie ? Pollen ? Landschaft ?
Bounding boxes: -68.330815° .. 87.283225° x -77.816667° .. 69.219824°
License: Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 (Data access requires registration)
Language: Englisch/English
Modified: 2026-10-15
Last harvest: 23.10.2026 03:15
Time ranges: 1882-08-01 - 2016-12-31
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