Alfred Merz (24 January 1880 – 16 August 1925) was an Austrian geographer, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin. He died of pneumonia in Buenos Aires while on an expedition to survey the South Atlantic and is buried in Perchtoldsdorf.^[1][2] Merz Peninsula is named after him.

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Alfred Merz
Born	(1880-01-24)24 January 1880 Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria, Austria
Died	16 August 1925(1925-08-16) (aged 45) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Scientific career
Fields	Geography, oceanography
Institutions	Institute of Marine Science, Berlin
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• Hydrographische Untersuchungen im Golf von Triest, 1911
• Die Oberflächentemperatur der Gewässer, 1920
• Die atlantische Vertikalzirkulation, 1922-1933 (with Georg Wüst)