Arne Foldvik

Arne Foldvik (born 6 April 1930) is a Norwegian oceanographer.

He was born in Tromsø as a son of as a son of meteorologist Nils M. Foldvik and Helene Andresen. In 1956 he married teacher Ninja Schibbye Danifer, a daughter of painter Sigurd Danifer.

He finished his secondary education in 1948 and took the cand.real. at the University of Oslo in 1957. After a period as research fellow from 1955 to 1960, at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters's Institute for Weather and Climate Research led by Einar Høiland, he was hired as a lecturer at the University of Bergen in 1960. He took the dr.philos. degree here in 1968, was promoted to docent in 1976 and professor in 1985. He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1992.