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Norwegian geologist (1959–2024) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pål Wessel (August 31, 1959 – March 26, 2024)[3] pronounced as, and also known as Paul Wessel, was a professor of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He taught as a visiting professor at Sydney University in Australia and University of Oslo in Norway. Wessel was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.[4]
Pål Wessel | |
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Born | |
Died | March 26, 2024 64) Nittedal, Norway | (aged
Other names | Paul Wessel |
Alma mater | |
Known for | Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)[2] |
Spouse | Jill Wessel[2] |
Children | 2 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geoscience |
In the 1980s, Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith created Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), an open-source collection of computer software tools for processing and displaying geographic and Cartesian datasets.[5] They later supplemented this with the Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database (GSHHS) that they constructed from two public domain data sets, the World Data Bank II (WDB), also known as CIA Data Bank, and the World Vector Shoreline (WVS) data set.[6]
Areas in which Wessel conducted research included:
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