Kåre Olav Venn (29 December 1935 – 6 April 2024) was a Norwegian forest pathologist.
He was born in Orkdal Municipality,[1] and started studying at the State Forestry School in Steinkjer (later a part of Nord-Trøndelag University College).[2] After graduating as a forester from the Norwegian College of Agriculture, he took the dr.agric. degree at the same institution in 1984.[1]
He spent his entire career at the Norwegian College of Agriculture, but was also a guest scholar at the University of Wisconsin, the Canadian Pacific Forestry Centre[1] and the Sokoine University of Agriculture.[3]
He was also a council member of the Rådet for skogbruksforskning and NLVF.[4] His research interests included both pathological damage to forests, chemical damage as well as physical phenomena such as lightning strikes and vehicle-related damage. Registering damage was an important part of his work, with Venn chairing the Monitoring Programme for Forest Damage.[2]
He was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 2003[1] and was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1991.[5]
He resided in Ås Municipality.[3] He died in 2024, aged 88.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Aamlid, Dan; Børja, Isabella; Solheim, Halvor (24 April 2024). "Kåre Olav Venn til minne". Nationen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ a b J., Tone (7 June 1988). "Skogovervåkeren". Nationen (in Norwegian). p. 32.
- ^ a b "80 år". Dagsavisen (in Norwegian). 29 December 2015. p. 35.
- ^ "Kåre Venn". Forvaltningsdatabasen (in Norwegian). Sikt. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "Utenlandske medlemmer". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2024.