Anneleen Kool is a botanist who works as the head of the botanical garden at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo.
[1] Kool is known for her studies on the ethnobotany of the Nordic countries to identify human-plant interactions and local ecological knowledge that contributes to plant diversity in cultural and natural environments.
[2][3][4] She led the establishment of the thematic Viking Gardens,[5] where the yearly Viking Garden Day event[6] is hosted in the botanical gardens of the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo.
[7][8] Kool was the recipient of Uppsala University’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007.
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