Draft:Kalle Remm

Kalle Remm (born April 9, 1954 in Tartu) is an Estonian zoologist, geographer, cartographer, and orienteer.

Education
In 1972, he graduated from Tartu 5th Secondary School. In 1977, he graduated from University of Tartu with a degree in biology. In 1990, he obtained a candidate degree in biology from the Zoology Institute in Leningrad. In 1999, he received a master's degree in geoinformatics and cartography from the University of Tartu.

Career
From 1977 to 1993, he worked at the Academy of Sciences Institute of Zoology and Botany as an engineer and junior researcher. From 1993 to 1998, he worked as an engineer at the Estonian Map Centre, and from 1998 to 1999, he worked as the chief specialist of the cartography office at the Land Board. Since 1998, he has been a researcher at the Faculty of Biology and Geography of the University of Tartu, and since 2002, a researcher in geoinformatics and cartography at the Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences at the University of Tartu, becoming a senior researcher in 2005.

Sports
He has won 4 gold medals (1979 in individual, 1975, 1981, and 1983 in relay), 1 silver medal, and 1 bronze medal at the Estonian Orienteering Championships. In Estonian Athletics Championships, he won bronze in the 30 km road race in 1983 and bronze in the marathon in 1985.

He has been part of the University of Tartu team that has won the Jüriööjooks competition five times.

Research
He has published over 50 scientific publications. Since 2011, he has been a member of the International Society for Computational Ecology.

Cartography
He has compiled over 70 orienteering maps, as well as various tourist maps, city plans, and other maps.

Awards

 * 2014 University of Tartu Medal

Family
His father was Hans Remm and his mother is Eevi Remm. Maido Remm is his brother.

He is the father of Tiit Remm and Jaanus Remm.