Background
Osterberg, Charles Lamar was born on June 15, 1920 in Miami, Arizona, United States. Son of Arthur Edward and Grace Viola (Johnson) Osterberg.
oceanographer Marine radioecologist
Osterberg, Charles Lamar was born on June 15, 1920 in Miami, Arizona, United States. Son of Arthur Edward and Grace Viola (Johnson) Osterberg.
Bachelor of Science, Northern Arizona University, 1948. Master of Science, Northern Arizona University, 1949. Postgraduate, Purdue University, 1958.
Postgraduate, University Washington, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Oregon State University, 1962.
Research associate, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1949-1953; assistant scientist, Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Northern Arizona U., Flagstaff, 1953-1956; teacher high school, Flagstaff, 1956-1959; successively instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor oceanography, Oregon State University, 1962-1967; assistant director visiting biomedical and environmental programs, Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, 1967-1974; program manager environmental programs, Energy Research and Development Administration, Washington, 1974-1976; director, International Laboratory Marine Radioactivity, Museum Océanographique, Monaco, 1976-1979; marine scientist, unites states department Energy, Washington, 1979-1986; chairman oceanography subcommittee, nuclear safety, Galileo and solar polar space project, unites states department Energy, Washington retired, unites states department Energy, Washington, 1986; co-founder, EnRad, Inc./Radon Testing and Engineering, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland., since 1986. Consultant International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria. Participant National Science Foundation Academy Year Institute, 1959-1960.
With Air corpus, United States army, 1940-1945. PTO. Member American Society Limnology, Oceanography, Health Physics Society, American Association Radon Scientists and Technologists (board directors 1988), Sigma Xi.
Married Betty Peltier, November 10, 1945. Children: Cheryl Ann Osterberg Cheek, David Arthur, John Charles.