Banse is an American oceanographer and marine biologist, and Professor emeritus at the University of Washington.
He is an expert in plankton production and hydrography, with a focus on Arabian Sea.
In 1998 he received the A.C.
Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award.
Banse wrote an introductory article for the Indian Annual Review of Marine Science.In 1985, he got the Summer Faculty Fellowship of NASA-ASEE at the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, and in 1989 was a Fellow at India’s Marine Biological Association.