• MATH, PHYSICS: University of Hamburg, 1959 - 1960
• PH.D.: Meteorology, University of Innsbruck, 1960 - 1964.
Professional Interests:
Lead scientist for the Alaska Climate Research Center. The ACRC studies climate and climate change in Alaska and the Arctic Region.
In the fields of Polar Research: climatology, meteorology, radiation, micro-meteorology, hydrology, satellite meteorology, glacio-meteorology. Over a hundred fifty papers were authored or co-authored in these areas. They were published in English, German, and French.