Osmund Holm-Hansen

Osmund Holm-Hansen (also known as Oz Holm-Hansen^[1]) is a Norwegian-born American scientist, for whom Mount Holm-Hansen, in Antarctica is named. A plant physiologist by training, from 1962 Holm-Hansen was the head of polar research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.^[2][3]

Beginning in 1976, Holm-Hansen conducted extensive field research on microbial populations in McMurdo Sound, the Ross Sea, and other ocean areas south of the Antarctic Convergence.

Footnotes

1. ^ "Biosketch: Oz Holm-Hansen, Ph.D.". Scripps Institute of Oceanography: Sverdrup Polar Studies Program. http://polarsci.ucsd.edu/Researchers/Oz_Holm_Hansen/cv_oz.php. Retrieved 22 March 2011. 
2. ^ Robert Engelman, "Anarctic Radiation Increase Tied to Ozone 'Hole,'" Nashua Telegraph, April 13, 1989.
3. ^ "Osmund Holm-Hansen, Ph.D. - Curricula Vita". Scripps Institute of Oceanography: Sverdrup Polar Studies Program. http://polarsci.ucsd.edu/Researchers/Oz_Holm_Hansen/cv_oz.php. Retrieved 22 March 2011. 

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