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In 1948, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup left his position as director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, to become the first director of the Norwegian Polar Institute. The NPI was a renamed continuation of what until then had been an Arctic-focused institute with a strong emp...

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Published in:Polar Research
Main Authors: Goldman, Helle V., Orheim, Olav
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2001
Subjects:
Arctic
Scripps
Norwegian Polar Institute
Polar Research
Online Access:https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2163
https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v20i2.6507
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Summary:In 1948, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup left his position as director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, to become the first director of the Norwegian Polar Institute. The NPI was a renamed continuation of what until then had been an Arctic-focused institute with a strong emphasis on topographical and geological mapping. Together with a new director, the institute got a broadened scientific scope, especially in geophysics, and its purview became bi-polar.

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