Hans Martin Seip

Hans Martin Seip, 2008.

Hans Martin Seip (born 14 June 1937) is a Norwegian chemist. He is professor emeritus at the University of Oslo and Senior Research Scientist (part-time position) at CICERO.

Career

He was born in Oslo, and became civil engineer at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH- now NTNU) in 1961 and received the dr.philos. degree at the University of Oslo with the thesis Studies on the failure of the first Born approximation in electron diffraction. He was a research fellow at NTH from 1965 to 1969, worked as a university lecturer from 1969 to 195, researcher at Central Institute for Industrial Research (later SINTEF) from 1976 to 1988. He was appointed professor of chemistry in 1979.[citation needed] Hans Martin Seip is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[1] and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

Seip started his work in chemistry with studies on structural chemistry, later he turned his interests to environmental chemistry. He did several studies, and participated in the scientific debate on acid rain and its impact on forests and waters, during the 1970s and 1980s.[2] There, he emphasized the impact of acid rain on acidification of waters and on fish mortality. However, he was also open to the effects of changing soil quality and the influence of changes in watershed vegetation. The work within this field started in Norway,[3] but was then extended to Poland and China [4] He has subsequently made major contributions to the effects of pollutants on the human population.[5][6] He is a spokesperson for the importance of co-benefits, that is, abatement measures for climate will also reduce other types of pollutants, like SO2, NOx and particulates.[7] Most of this work has been in China.

Public services

Hans Martin Seip has also participated in the public debate about many issues, mostly on themes related to his research.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Gruppe 8: Teknologiske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
  2. ^ Seip, Hans Martin, Nils Damm Christophersen, J. Mulder and G. Taugbøl, 1995. Integrating field work and modelling: The Birkenes case. I: Trudgill, S.T. (ed.), Solute Modelling in Catchment Systems. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. pp. 387-415
  3. ^ Christophersen, N., Seip, H.M., and Wright, R.F., 1982. A model for streamwater chemistry at Birkenes, Norway. Water Resour. Res., 18: 977 996
  4. ^ Vogt, R.D., Hans Martin Seip, L. Pawlowski, M. Kotowski, S. Ødegård, A. Horváth and S. Andersen, 1994. Potential acidification of soil and soil water: a monitoring study in the Janow Forest, southeastern Poland. Ecological Engineering, (3): pp. 255-266
  5. ^ Zhao, Dianwu and Hans Martin Seip, 1991. Assessing effects of acid deposition in southwestern China using the MAGIC model. Water Air Soil Pollution, 60: pp. 83-97
  6. ^ Seip, Hans Martin, Kristin Aunan, Haakon Vennemo and Jinghua Fang, 2001. Mitigating GHGs in developing countries. Science, 293: pp. 2391-2392
  7. ^ Aunan, Kristin; Fang, Jinghua; Hu, Tao; Seip, Hans Martin; Vennemo, Haakon. Climate change and air quality - Measures with co-benefits in China. Environmental Science & Technology 2006;40(16):4822-4829
  8. ^ Seip, Hans Martin, 1992. Environmental problems must be teken seriously (in Norwegian). Teknisk Ukeblad, 1992 (17): pp. 34-36., Seip, Hans Martin and Jan S. Fuglestvedt, 1998. We wish for better climate in the climate debate (In Norwegian). Apollon, (4)