A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine SciencePast Recipient, Prof. Victor Smetacek (1995) |
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Professor Victor Smetacek, the eighteenth
recipient of the A.G. Huntsman Award, is
one of the world's leading biological
oceanographers. His research interests
range over the ecology and natural
history of the microflora and microfauna
in shallow-water ecosystems, the pelagic
ecology of the southern ocean, and
biogeochemical processes, especially the
vertical flux of particles. He has worked
in a spectrum of oceanographic regimes
from the coastal waters of northern
Europe to the deep-sea ecosystem of the
Antarctic. When the occasion demands, he
is not afraid to be an iconoclast, but he
is also known for his ability to
synthesize information from diverse
fields to draw new conclusions about the
structure and function of the great
biogeochemical cycles of the ocean. 