User:Hgrobe

[mailto:hgrobe@pangaea.de Dr. Hannes Grobe]

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany

phone: +49 471 4831 1220


 * Data librarian of PANGAEA
 * Definition of new projects and parameters
 * Contact for data submissions
 * Editor of data citations and WDC-MARE Reports

Hannes Grobe is a marine geologist and the data librarian of PANGAEA. After his diploma in geology/paleontology at Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel in 1982, he joined the maiden voyage of the research vessel Polarstern. From the resulting sampling material he made his Ph.D. thesis about paleoclimate of the Antarctic. The work was finished in 1986 followed by a three year period as a research assistant at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). From 1989 to 1991 he was head of the public relation office of AWI. Since than he participated as a senior scientist in 15 expeditions to both polar hemispheres. At AWI he is also responsible for the repository for geological samples and sediment cores.

End of the 80th, Grobe realized the lack of a common database for geoscientific investigations. It was the start for the development and finaly the implementation of a comprehensive library for any kind of data from earth system research: Pangaea. The system is available to the international scientific community since the opening of the Internet. It was the first system allowing full referencing of data sets including a DOI (digital object identifier). The content of the system, data import and project support is in the responsiblity of Grobe as the librarian. In 1995 Grobe founded the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) as part of the ICSU system and established the CD/journal WDC-MARE Reports.

Links

 * personal homepage http://www.awi.de/People/show?hgrobe