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List of the most influential people in Earth Sciences,

#1451

Jay. J. Ague

#137130

Overall Influence

#1452

Zvi Ben‐avraham

#137198

Overall Influence

#1453

Richard Seager

#137240

Overall Influence

#1454

Raimon Tolosana-Delgado

#126741

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Raimon Tolosana-Delgado is currently working at , Germany. Tolosana-Delgado received the Felix Chayes Prize in 2013, and the Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award in 2007, from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. He is an elected Executive Vice President of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences

#1455

David R. Marchant

#86485

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David R. Marchant is an American glacial geologist and former professor at Boston University. Prior to working at Boston University, Marchant worked at the University of Maine. His approach to glaciology has been described as "stabilism," someone who believes that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has remained cold and generally stable for the past 15 million years. In 1994, an Antarctic glacier was named after him.

#1456

Qian-ke Fu

#137330

Overall Influence

#1457

Robert B. Herrmann

#137361

Overall Influence

#1458

Ian C. T. Nisbet

#137418

Overall Influence

#1459

Katharine Kanak

#118628

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Katharine M. Kanak is an American atmospheric scientist with noted publications on the dynamics and morphologies of atmospheric vortices, including tornadoes, tropical cyclones, misocyclones and landspouts, and dust devils both terrestrial and Martian.

#1460

Elizabeth Pattey

#47345

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Elizabeth Pattey is a principal research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the leader of the micrometeorology laboratory at the Ottawa Research and Development Centre. Her research supports nationwide improvement in the environmental performance of agriculture, in support of the United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change and Canada’s Clean Air Act. She is the co-author for over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and her areas of expertise include trace gas flux measurement techniques, process-based models, and remote-sensing applications.

#1461

Chuanyi Wang

#88704

Overall Influence

Chuanyi Wang is a Chinese American, environmental chemistry scientist, academic, and an author. He is a Distinguished Professor and Academic Dean at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Shaanxi University of Science & Technology. He is recognized for his research in environmental photocatalysis, environmental materials, surface/interface chemistry, nanomaterials, and pollution controlling.

#1462

George Vosselman

#137516

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#1463

Andrew Warren

#106291

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

For other people named Andrew Warren, see Andrew Warren .Andrew Warren is a British physical geographer. He is Emeritus Professor of Geography at University College London, UK. Career Warren was born in India to Scottish parents, grew up in India and Scotland, and attended the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge . His doctoral research was on the Qoz region of Kordofan, Sudan, funded by the consultancy Huntings, with whom he had worked as a soil surveyor in Sind, West Pakistan after his undergraduate degree. He became a lecturer in geography at University College London in 1964, and became Professor in 1995, retiring in 2003.

#1464

Steven M. Gorelick

#137581

Overall Influence

#1465

Onisimo Mutanga

#137662

Overall Influence

#1466

Zhao Pengda

#101119

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Zhao Pengda is a Chinese mathematical geologist. He was a professor at the China University of Geosciences . He was the first Asian to receive the William Christian Krumbein Medal in 1990 from International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. He is considered as the Father of Mathematical Geology in China. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

#1467

Bent Tolstrup Christensen

#137677

Overall Influence

#1468

Nigel T. Roulet

#137706

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

#1469

Adolf Mehlich

#137711

Overall Influence

#1470

Eric Robert Engdahl

#137739

Overall Influence

#1471

Paul Mason

#130710

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Paul James Mason CB FRS is a British meteorologist, Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading. He is a physicist who has carried out research in several areas of geophysical fluid dynamics and dynamical meteorology. Most recently he has carried out theoretical and numerical studies of the influence of topography on turbulent boundary layer flow.

#1472

Prashant Goswami

#52880

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Prashant Goswami is an Indian computational geoscientist, climatologist and the director of the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi. He is a former scientist at the Fourth Paradigm Institute and is known for his studies on the tropical atmospheric variability across the time scales. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosph...

#1473

Peter Robert Cobbold

#137934

Overall Influence

#1474

Aradhna Tripati

#97686

Overall Influence

Aradhna Tripati is an American geoscientist, climate scientist, and advocate for diversity. She is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is part of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and the California Nanosystems Institute. She is also the director of the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science. Her research includes advancing new chemical tracers for the study of environmental processes and studying the history of climate change and Earth systems.

#1475

Heather Viles

#122617

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Heather Viles is a professor of biogeomorphology and heritage conservation in the school of geography and the environment at Oxford University, senior fellow at Worcester College, and honorary professor at the Institute of Sustainable Heritage, University College London. She is a Fellow of the British Society for Geomorphology.

#1476

Josef Breu

#91348

Overall Influence

1914 - 1998 (84 years)

Josef Breu was an Austrian geographer and cartographer and for several years Chair of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names . Life Josef Breu grew up in Budapest , Türnitz , Niesky and Klosterneuburg , where he passed the high-school leaving exam in 1932. In the same year he started studying geography and history at the University of Vienna. His dissertation on the history of Croatian settlements in the south eastern border regions of the German-speaking lands was approved in 1937. Breu, who was a polyglot, worked at the Geography Department of the University of Vienna from 1936 to 1938.

#1477

Noreen Goldman

#138076

Overall Influence

#1478

John A. Wolfe

#138111

Overall Influence

#1479

Thomas L. Delworth

#106106

Overall Influence

Thomas L. Delworth is an atmospheric and oceanic climate scientist and Senior Scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory , part of NOAA. He also serves on the faculty of Oceanic Science at Princeton University.

#1480

Roger G. Walker

#107835

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Roger G. Walker, FRSC, MMR is a geologist and an award-winning emeritus professor at McMaster University. Walker obtained his D.Phil. from Oxford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. For 32 years, he taught at McMaster University. In 1998, Walker left McMaster to be a consultant in Calgary.

#1481

Donald E. Hattin

#114734

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Donald E. Hattin was an American geologist and paleontologist, and a geology professor at Indiana University Bloomington for nearly 40 years. Born in Cohasset, Massachusetts to Edward and Una W. Hattin, Hattin was raised in Scituate, Massachusetts and entered the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1946, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1950. In 1954, Hattin received a Master of Science and a PhD from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, where he studied stratigraphy and paleontology under the mentorship of Raymond Cecil Moore. Hattin was an Assistant Professor of Geology ...

#1482

Thomas W. Swetnam

#113008

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Thomas W. Swetnam is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona, studying disturbances of forest ecosystems across temporal and spatial scales. He served as the Director of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research from 2000 to 2015.

#1483

Peter U. Clark

#138308

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

#1484

Martin J. Pasqualetti

#106391

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Martin J. "Mike" Pasqualetti is a professor of geography in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. He is also a member of the graduate faculty on Global Technology and Development at ASU Polytechnic, and a Senior Sustainability Scholar the Global Institute of Sustainability. He pioneered the study of "Energy Landscapes," which interprets the role of human energy demand in reshaping natural landscapes.

#1485

Robert W. Clayton

#138371

Overall Influence

#1486

Bruno Merz

#138444

Overall Influence

#1487

Christer Hogstrand

#138479

Overall Influence

#1488

Agust Gudmundsson

#138487

Overall Influence

#1489

John W. Shervais

#138513

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

#1490

John Bertram Adams

#138619

Overall Influence

#1491

Peter Styles

#68759

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Peter Styles is a British geologist. He is Professor of Applied and Environmental Geophysics at Keele University. After growing up in Northumberland Styles read physics at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating in 1972. He then studied for a doctorate at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on plate tectonics in the rift valley of East Africa. As well as plate tectonics Styles has specialised in the detection of abandoned mine workings using microseismology and microgravity. He is a past president of the Geological Society of London.

#1492

Michael Hochella

#26028

Overall Influence

Michael F. Hochella, Jr. is an American geoscientist and currently a university distinguished professor at Virginia Tech and a laboratory fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society of Chemistry, Geochemical Society, European Association of Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, International Association of GeoChemistry, Geological Society of America and American Geophysical Union. His interests are nanogeoscience, minerals, biogeochemistry and geochemistry. Currently among greater than 22,...

#1493

J. W. Netherlands De Leeuw

#138657

Overall Influence

#1494

David Leigh Clark

#98333

Overall Influence

David L. Clark is a paleontologist. He was the W.H. Twenhofel Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. In 1972, he described the conodont genus Neostreptognathodus.

#1495

U. Aswathanarayana

U. Aswathanarayana

#39521

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Uppugunduri Aswathanarayana was the Honorary Director of the Mahadevan International Centre for Water Resources Management, India. He is counted among the doyens of geology in independent India and revered as a leading scientist from Andhra Pradesh. He studied and taught geology at Andhra University, India; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; Oxford University, United Kingdom, University of Western Ontario, Canada; University of Sagar, India; University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique. He has served as the Dean and Director of Cen...

#1496

Paolo Nannipieri

#138696

Overall Influence

#1497

Tapan Mukerji

#138780

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

#1498

John W. Harbaugh

John W. Harbaugh

#100176

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

John Warvelle Harbaugh was an American geologist who spent most of his professional career at Stanford University devoted to research on mathematical modeling of dynamic systems, sedimentary basin simulation and oil exploration risk analysis. Since 1999, he was Professor Emeritus both at the Geological and Environmental Sciences Department and at the Energy Resources Engineering Department.

#1499

M. C. Key

#138803

Overall Influence

#1500

Kenneth G. Foote

#138833

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