Artur Svansson

Associate Professor
Oceanography

University of Gothenburg
Department of Earth Sciences
PO Box 460
SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden

Tel: +46-31-786 28 77
Mobile: 073 076 3097
Home: +46-31-12 51 65
Fax: +46-31-786 19 86
E-mail: arsv[at]gvc.gu.se

Research

History of Swedish Oceanography, particularly on Otto Pettersson (monograph in Swedish 2006, see below), Ecological and Sea level models, General Oceanography.

Keywords: History of Oceanography, Ecological models, Sea level models, General Oceanography.
 

Publications

Svansson, A. 2012: Två familjer i union. Göteborg: Tre Böcker Förlag. 218 pages. GUP Nr. 172244Front page Book cover

Svansson, A. 2010:. Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954): Theoretical Oceanographer. Earth Sciences History. Vol. 29, No. 1, 2010
pp. 100–120.

Svansson, A. 2009: . Review of Rentetzi, Maria. 2008. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices. Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna. New York: Columbia University Press. 279 pages.pdf full articleIllustrations only on www.gutenberg-e.org/rentetzi/. - In: The History of Oceanography Newsletter annual volume 21: 45-50. To appear on www.ijnhonline.org. GUP Nr. 106961, vet. recension.

Svansson, A., 2007: Från oceanograf till dess historieskrivare. – HavsUtsikt 1/2007, sid 3. GUP Nr. 106964, övrig vetenskap.

Svansson, A., 2006: Otto Pettersson, Oceanografen, Kemisten, Uppfinnaren [OP, the Oceanographer, the Chemist, the Inventor]. Tre Böcker Förlag AB, Göteborg, 376 sidor, 16 foton, Abstract in English. GUP Nr. 57412.

Svansson, A., 2004: The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-03: Physical Oceanography. – Antarctic Challenges, Historical and Current Perspectives on Otto Nordenskjöld’s Expedition 1901-1903. Göteborg: Royal Soc. Of Arts and Sciences, 144-155. GUP Nr. 57415.

Svansson, A. 2004: Otto Pettersson the oceanographer (1848-1941). Extracts from a biography in preparation. – In Ocean Sciences Bridging the Millennia, A spectrum of historical accounts, Proceedings of ICHO VI, Qingdao, China,1998, eds S. Morcos et al., UNESCO (Paris) and China Ocean Press, Beijing, 17-28. http://ioc.unesco.org/icho/article/Svansson.pdf . GUP Nr. 57418.

Svansson, A., Morcos S., and Smed, J, 2004: The eel and Mediterranean oceanography. A Danish contribution to ocean science. - In Ocean Sciences Bridging the Millennia, A spectrum of historical accounts, Proceedings of ICHO VI, Qingdao, China,1998, eds S. Morcos et al., UNESCO (Paris) and China Ocean Press, Beijing, 197-207. GUP Nr. 57423.

Crawford, E. and A. Svansson, 2003: Neptun och Mammon, Otto Petterssons brev till Gustaf Ekman 1884-1929. Tre Böcker Förlag AB, 223 pp.

A. Svansson, 2003: Otto Pettersson and the birth of ICES. ICES Cooperative Research Report, No. 260, 41-44.
 

Selected Publications

A. Svansson, 1999: Herring and Hydrography. Otto Pettersson and his ideas of the behaviour of the period herring. Rapport från Ekonomisk-Historiska Inst. vid Gbg Universitet nr 13, 22-36.

A. Svansson, 1996: A diffusion model for the primary production of phytoplankton. Deep-Sea Research II , 43(1), 37-46.

A. Svansson, 1996: Ekman, Vagn Walfrid. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences, 256-257.

Larsson, A-M and A. Svansson, 1992: Fluxes of gases in an ice related ecosystem in the NW Weddell Sea. Polar Biology 12, 183-188.

A. Svansson, 1991: A simple primary production model for the NW Weddell Sea. Marine Chemistry 35, 347-354.

A. Svansson, 1975: Physical and chemical oceanography of the Skagerrak and the Kattegat. Fishery Board of Sweden, Inst. Mar. Res., Rep. No. 1, 88 pp.

A. Svansson, 1972: Canal models of sea level and salinity variations in the Baltic and adjacent waters. Fishery Board of Sweden, series Hydrography, Rep. No. 26, 1-72.