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

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany

phone: +49 471 4831 1220

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


 * 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 to the Antarctic. From the resulting sampling material he made his Ph.D. thesis about paleoclimate reconstructions (http://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.11657). 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. Within the AWI geosciences infrastructure he is responsible for the sample and core repository and related laboratory facilities.

In 1986, 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 science. The system PANGAEA is available to the international scientific community since the invention of the Internet. It was the first system allowing full referencing of data sets including a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). Content, data ingest and project support is in the responsiblity of Grobe as the librarian of the system. 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.