Ole Andreas Krogness

[3] In 1912 Krogness was hired as manager of the aurora borealis observatory at Haldde in Kåfjord, Alta.

Their work culminated in the establishment of "Værvarslinga for Nord-Norge", the weather forecast of Northern Norway, in 1922.

[1][4] Krogness also founded the magnetical observatory at Dombås in 1916, and in Tromsø Museum he was a board member from 1919 to 1923 and chairman from 1923 to 1928.

He co-founded the nationwide Norsk Geofysisk Forening and chaired it from 1927 to 1928, and also founded the local branch of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society in Tromsø.

In 1937 a stone monument to him was unveiled at Nesttun Church, and a road in Tromsø has been named after him.