{{Short description|German-born American oceanographer (1920–2025)}} {{use mdy dates|date=February 2021}}
'''Karl A. Banse,''' (February 20, 1929 – February 8, 2025) was an American oceanographer, marine biologist, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington. 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-Goddard Space Flight Center, and in 1989 was a Fellow at India's Marine Biological Association.<ref>{{cite web |title=Karl Banse |url=http://www.ocean.washington.edu/home/Karl+Banse |publisher=University of Washington |accessdate=26 May 2015}}</ref>
==Scientific focus== Banse was an expert in plankton production and hydrography, with a focus on the Arabian Sea.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ocean.washington.edu/home/Karl+Banse |title=Karl Banse |publisher=University of Washington |language=en |access-date=2021-02-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211120659/https://www.ocean.washington.edu/home/Karl+Banse |archive-date=2018-12-11}}</ref> 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. <ref>Banse, K. (2007) Do we live in a largely top-down regulated world? Journal of Biosciences 32: 791-796.</ref>
Banse wrote an introductory article for the Indian ''Annual Review of Marine Science''.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reflections About Chance in My Career, and on the Top-Down Regulated World |year=2013 |publisher=Annual Reviews |doi=10.1146/annurev-marine-121211-172359 |last1=Banse |first1=Karl |journal=Annual Review of Marine Science |volume=5 |pages=1–19 |pmid=22881352 |doi-access=free}}</ref> ==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.<ref>{{cite web|title=A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award|url=https://www.aslo.org/aslo-awards/a-c-redfield-lifetime-achievement-award/|publisher=Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography|accessdate=4 Feb 2020}}</ref>
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