Biography of Tom Victor Segalstad

• Born in Norway in 1949.
• University degrees (natural sciences with geology) from the University of Oslo.
• Has conducted university research, publishing, and teaching in geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology, volcanology, structural geology, ore geology, and geophysics at the University of Oslo, Norway, and the Pennsylvania State University, USA.
• At present keeping a professional position as Associate Professor of Resource- and Environmental Geology at the University of Oslo.
• Past Head of the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo (for a total of 12 years).
• Past Head of the Natural History Museums and Botanical Garden of the University of Oslo.
• Member of different international and national professional working groups and committees, including Expert Reviewer to the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC).

Current research interests:

• General geochemistry (the chemistry of the Earth).
• Metallogenesis (how mineral deposits and ore deposits form).
• Igneous petrogenesis (how magmatic rocks form).
• CO₂ and the "Greenhouse Effect" (how CO₂ simply cannot cause "global warming").

Return to Homepage