Knut Lehre Seip (born 13 April 1942 in Oslo, Norway) is professor in environmental management at

Oslo Metropolitan University Oslo Metropolitan University (Oslomet; no, Oslomet – storbyuniversitetet)"Skrivemåten av universitetsnamnet Oslomet – storbyuniversitetet," Language Council of Norway, 17/677-4/DGI, 18 January 2018 is a state university in Oslo and Akersh ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. Seip obtained his masters in physics at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top univers ...

, UiO, in 1969. He obtained his ph.D (doctor philos.) at UiO in 1992 with the thesis “Mathematical models of lake ecosystems.” Seip has served at several positions at

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, SI /

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. Professor Seip held the first chair in Environmental management in Norway, at

Telemark University College Telemark University College (TUC, no, Høgskolen i Telemark, HiT) was, until its merger, the fourth largest university college in Norway. The University College had about 7000 students, split between four different locations in Bø, Notodden, Por ...

1994-2000, then he became professor and head of Research and Management at

Oslo University College Oslo University College ( no, Høgskolen i Oslo; HiO) was the largest state university college in Norway from 1994 to 2011, with more than 18,000 students and approximately 1800 employees.

. From 2011 he has been professor and vice dean for research and development at the Faculty of technology, arts and design at Oslo and Akershus University College of applied Sciences. He is th son of the Norwegian historian Jens Arup Seip.

Scientific focus

Seip has worked in

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathemat ...

with problems related to doubly curved surfaces, within the ecological field with models of rocky shore and lake

ecosystem An ecosystem (or ecological system) consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the syst ...

s (e.g.,;), with oil pollution, and with population cycles in terrestrial environments. Within

macroeconomic Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix ''makro-'' meaning "large" + ''economics'') is a branch of economics dealing with performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy An economy is an area of the production, distributio ...

field he has worked on leading and lagging indexes and breakpoint identification. He has developed two methods for studying interactions between actors, the “leading –lagging, LL- strength method” and the “angle frequency method”. The first extends the analysis of associations with analyses of “leading” and “lagging” relationships for cyclic phenomena. The other extends the analysis of slopes in

regression analysis In statistical modeling, regression analysis is a set of statistical processes for estimating the relationships between a dependent variable (often called the 'outcome' or 'response' variable, or a 'label' in machine learning parlance) and one ...

with the analysis of “compass directions”. Both methods are used to characterize the behavior of actors, for example as competitors, facilitators and gainers or engineers. The methods are used within ecology and economy. In economy the method is furthermore used to identify leading indexes that forecasts future developments in the economy to secure that information used by an economic actor is available before it is used and to identify which economic actor listen to whom, when they do it, and why. In global warming studies the LL- method is used to examine when carbon dioxide changes comes before global temperature changes and to study teleconnections between ocean oscillations. Seip, K. L. and Ø. Grøn, On the statistical nature of distinct cycles in global warming variables. Climate dynamics 2019, 52: p. 7329-7337

Books

Seip has written two books with coauthor Fred Wenstøp. * Seip, K.L. and F. Wenstøp: A primer on environmental decision-making. An integrative quantitative approach (2006) Springer Verlag. * Wenstøp, F. and K.L. Seip: Verdier og valg - verdibasert beslutningsanalyse i praksis (2009) Universitetsforlaget.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seip, Knut Academic staff of Oslo and Akershus University College 1942 births Living people