Pål Wessel
{{Short description|Norwegian geologist (1959–2024)}}
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{{for|the East German politician|Paul Wessel}}
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Pål Wessel (August 31, 1959 – March 26, 2024) 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.{{cite web |url=http://rock.geosociety.org/membership/fellows.asp |title=Geological Society of America - Fellowship |publisher=Geological Society of America |location= Boulder, CO |access-date= December 21, 2010}}
Open source mapping tools and data
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.{{cite journal |author1= Wessel, P.|author2=Smith, W. H. F. |year=1995 |title=New version of the generic mapping tools released |journal= Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union |volume=76 |issue=33 |page=329 |location=Washington, DC |publisher= American Geophysical Union |issn=0002-8606 |oclc=1479928 |bibcode= 1995EOSTr..76..329W|doi=10.1029/95EO00198 }} 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.{{cite journal |last1=Wessel |first1=Pål |author-link1=Pål Wessel |first2=Walter H. F. |last2=Smith |date=April 2001 |title=A Global, Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-Resolution Shoreline Database |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |volume=101 |issue=B4 |pages=8741–8743 |location=Richmond, Va |publisher=William Byrd Press for Johns Hopkins Press |issn=0148-0227 |oclc=2396688 |doi=10.1029/96JB00104 |access-date=December 22, 2010 |url= http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1996/96JB00104.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001160413/http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1996/96JB00104.shtml |archive-date=October 1, 2012 |bibcode=1996JGR...101.8741W}} [http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/papers/1996/JGR_96/jgr_96.html Alt URL]
Geological and geophysical research
Areas in which Wessel conducted research included:
- Periodic co-pulsing of volcanic hot spots, including Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, Easter Island, La Réunion, Tristan, the Galápagos, Samoa, Ontong Java, Tasmantid, the Society Islands, the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, St. Helena, Afar-Kenya, and others{{cite journal |last1=Mjelde |first1=Rolf |last2= Wessel |first2=Paul |author-link2=Pål Wessel |last3=Müller |first3=R. Dietmar |date=October 2010 |title= Global pulsations of intraplate magmatism through the Cenozoic|journal=Lithosphere |volume=2 |issue=5 |pages=361–376 |location=Boulder, Colorado |publisher= Geological Society of America |issn=1941-8264 |oclc= 302419952 |doi=10.1130/L107.1 |bibcode=2010Lsphe...2..361M |doi-access=free}}{{cite web|url=http://news.discovery.com/earth/earth-pulse-hot-spots.html |title=Earth's pulse felt at hot spots |first=Larry |last=O'Hanlon |date=September 22, 2010 |publisher=Discovery Communications, Inc |location=New York |access-date=December 23, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113014642/http://news.discovery.com/earth/earth-pulse-hot-spots.html |archive-date=November 13, 2010}}
- Plate Tectonic Reconstructions and Hot Spot Fixity{{cite journal |last=Wessel |first=Paul |author-link=Pål Wessel |date=9 August 2008 |title=Hotspotting: Principles and properties of a plate tectonic Hough transform |journal=Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems |volume=9 |issue=Q08004 |pages=n/a |location=Washington, DC |publisher=American Geophysical Union and the Geochemical Society |issn=1525-2027 |oclc=41417292 |bibcode= 2008GGG.....908004W|doi=10.1029/2008GC002058 |access-date=December 24, 2010 |url=http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008GC002058.shtml |doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Wessel |first=Pål |author-link1=Pål Wessel |title=Observational Constraints on Models of the Hawaiian Hot Spot Swell |year=1993 |url=http://europa.agu.org/?view=article&uri=/journals/jb/93JB01230.xml&t=1993,Wessel |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |volume=98 |issue= B9 |pages=16,095–16,104 |location=Richmond, Va |publisher=William Byrd Press for Johns Hopkins Press |issn=0148-0227 |oclc=2396688 |doi=10.1029/93JB01230 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716141512/http://europa.agu.org/?view=article&uri=/journals/jb/93JB01230.xml&t=1993,Wessel |archive-date= July 16, 2011 |access-date=December 24, 2010 |bibcode=1993JGR....9816095W}} [http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/papers/1993/JGR_93b/jgr_93b.html Alt URL]
- Improvement of marine geophysical data sets via data analysis{{cite journal |last1=Wessel |first1=Pål |author-link1=Pål Wessel |first2=J. M. |last2=Becker |date=July 2008 |title=Interpolation using a generalized Green's function for a spherical surface spline in tension |journal=Geophysical Journal International |volume=174 |issue=1 |pages=21–28 |location=Oxford |publisher=Blackwell Science |issn=1365-246X |oclc=48413162 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03829.x|bibcode = 2008GeoJI.174...21W |doi-access=free }}
- Thermo-mechanical Evolution and Properties of Oceanic Lithosphere{{cite journal |last= Wessel |first=P. |author-link=Pål Wessel |date=1992 |title=Thermal Stresses and the Bimodal Distribution of Elastic Thickness Estimates of the Oceanic Lithosphere|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |volume=97 |issue=B10 |pages= 4,177–14,193 |location=Richmond, Va |publisher=William Byrd Press for Johns Hopkins Press |issn=0148-0227 |oclc=2396688 |bibcode= 1992JGR....9714177W|doi=10.1029/92JB01224 |access-date=December 24, 2010 |url=http://europa.agu.org/?view=article&uri=/journals/jb/92JB01224.xml&t=1992,Wessel}}
- Flexural Deformation of Lithosphere at Seamounts, Fracture Zones, and Trenches{{cite journal |last1=Kim |first1=Seung-Sep |last2= Wessel |first2=Paul |author-link2=Pål Wessel |date=August 2010 |title=Flexure modelling at seamounts with dense cores |journal=Geophysical Journal International |volume=182 |issue=2 |pages=583–598 |location=Oxford |publisher=Blackwell Science |issn=1365-246X |oclc=48413162|doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04653.x|bibcode = 2010GeoJI.182..583K |doi-access=free}}
See also
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Further reading
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- {{cite web |url= http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/ |title=Pål (Paul) Wessel |first=Pål |last=Wessel |author-link=Pål Wessel |date=November 28, 2010 |publisher=School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |location=Honolulu |access-date=December 22, 2010}}: Pål Wessel's GG/SOEST/UHM web page.
- {{cite web |url=http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ |title=The GMT Home Page |first=Paul |last=Wessel |author-link=Pål Wessel |date=November 1, 2010 |publisher=School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa |location=Honolulu |access-date=December 22, 2010}}
- {{cite web |url= http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html |title=GSHHS A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database |date=November 1, 2010 |publisher=National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) |location= Boulder, Colorado |access-date=December 22, 2010 }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.geoware-online.com/ |title=Geoware Online Store |first=Paul |last=Wessel |date=July 21, 2010 |access-date=August 30, 2011 |quote=Geoware specializes in using GMT to make regional and global topographic maps of exceptional quality, and developing custom applications written in C or Unix shells. We also distribute the GMT Companion CD-R and DVD-Rs which provide the service of combining many public-domain data sets and software on easy-to-install CD- or DVD-Rs for both Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms (New versions as of July 15, 2010). Finally, we also distribute TTT, the tsunami travel time estimator for bathymetric grids.}}
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