Karl A. Banse, born 1929 in Koeningsberg, Germany, is an American oceanographer, marine biologist, and

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at the

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. He obtained his Ph.D. in oceanography at the University of Kiel in 1955. In 1960 he became an assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and a full professor in 1966. He was a visiting professor at Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, Univ. of California, 1972-1973, and at Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography, University System of Georgia, 1980-1981. In 1985, he got the Summer Faculty Fellowship of NASA-ASEE at the NASA-

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, and in 1989 was a Fellow at India's Marine Biological Association.

Scientific focus

He is an expert in plankton production and

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, with a focus on the

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. He has studied how plankton interact with light, temperature and nutrients, and contributed to the understanding of how plankton is controlled by bottom-up and top down mechanisms. Banse wrote an introductory article for the Indian '' Annual Review of Marine Science''.

Awards

Banse received the Lifetime Achievement Award "for his prolific, diverse, and seminal papers on key oceanographic issues, rigorous application of the scientific method, high intellectual standards, and excellence in teaching," from the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography in 1998.

References

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