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List of the most influential people in Earth Sciences,

#1601

Daniel S. Wilks

#143033

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#1602

Patrick Druckenmiller

Patrick Druckenmiller

#67731

Overall Influence

Patrick S. Druckenmiller is a Mesozoic paleontologist, taxonomist, associate professor of geology, Earth Sciences curator, and museum director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, where he oversees the largest single collection of Alaskan invertebrate and vertebrate fossils. He has published work on plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mastodons, and dinosaurs in the United States, Svalbard, and Canada. He has co-authored papers on discussions of mass extinctions and biogeography. Much of his work has focused on Arctic species. He is a member of the Spitsbergen Jurassic Research group, which focuses on marine reptiles.

#1603

Anthony R. Philpotts

#143231

Overall Influence

#1604

Frederick Carr

#108587

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Frederick Carr is a meteorologist who was president for the 2016 term of the American Meteorological Society. He was formerly the McCasland Foundation Professor of Meteorology and is now a professor emeritus at the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology.

#1605

Wim Spakman

#143374

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#1606

Patricia Daley

#31932

Overall Influence

Patricia O. Daley is a British human geographer and academic, specialising in forced migration, political ecology, and Africa. She is Professor of Human Geography of Africa at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.

#1607

Derek Eamus

#143393

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

#1608

Harold. Heatwole

#143535

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#1609

John F. B. Mitchell

#71549

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

John Francis Brake Mitchell OBE FRS is a British climatologist and climate modeller. He studied Applied Mathematics at Queen's University Belfast, graduating in 1970 and staying on to gain a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1973.

#1610

Sergi Sabater

#143650

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#1611

Eric James William Whittaker

#143694

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#1612

Gilles Palsky

#62798

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Gilles Palsky , is a French geographer and Professor at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France from 2007 to 2015. He is a member of the editorial board of Cybergéo and Imago Mundi, and known for his work on the history of statistical graphics and thematic mapping in the 19th century.

#1613

Louise Heathwaite

#60766

Overall Influence

Louise Heathwaite is a British environmental scientist. She is Distinguished Professor in the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research and Enterprise. She is a hydrochemist working on diffuse environmental pollution, especially the pathways of nitrogen and phosphorus loss from agricultural land to water.

#1614

Harald Schuh

#143828

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

#1615

Denis A. Angers

#143878

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#1616

Stephen Grand

#143905

Overall Influence

Stephen P. Grand is an American geologist, currently the Carleton Professor of Geophysics at University of Texas at Austin. Education Ph.D. in Geophysics, Caltech, April, 1986BSc. in Physics, McGill University, 1978

#1617

Claire Dwyer

#121228

Overall Influence

1964 - 2019 (55 years)

Claire Lucy Dwyer was a British academic, geographer and Professor of human geography at University College London until her death in 2019. Early life and education Dwyer was born in Letchworth 1964 to Michael Dwyer and Brenda Jacques. Her father was a research engineer and her mother was a teacher. She became interested in social geography during her childhood in the garden city of Letchworth. Dwyer attended St Angela's Roman Catholic school in Stevenage. She was an undergraduate student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating with a first-class geography degree from the University of Oxford in 1987.

#1618

Joseph B. Klemp

#143932

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#1619

Roland A. Madden

#143935

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#1620

Werner F. Giggenbach

#143984

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#1621

Joseph Nevins

#54199

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Joseph Nevins is an American author, activist and associate professor of geography at Vassar College in New York. Background Joseph Nevins studies socio-territorial boundaries and mobility, imperialism, global apartheid and forms of political violence, political ecology, and matters of human rights, international law and social justice in the aftermath of mass atrocities. He has conducted research in East Timor, Mexico, and the United States-Mexico border region.

#1622

Øyvind Hammer

#144012

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#1623

Larry. M. Heaman

#144016

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#1624

Hong-ying Huh. Hu

#144017

Overall Influence

#1625

Paul George Silver

#144025

Overall Influence

#1626

Sisi Zlatanova

#104340

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Sisi Zlatanova is a Bulgarian/Dutch researcher in geospatial data, geographic information systems, and 3D modeling. She works as a professor in the faculty of the Built Environment, at the University of New South Wales , and is president of Technical Commission IV of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

#1627

Kamini Singha

#125879

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Kamini Singha is a Professor in the department of Geology and Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, where she works on questions related to hydrogeology. Early life and education Singha was born in New York. Her father was a student at Cornell University, and her mother was a travel agent. The family moved to West Virginia soon after Singha's birth, and she spent most of her early childhood there. When she was 12, the family relocated to Connecticut for her father's work. She became interested in geoscience in her senior year of high school, when a physics teacher and a family friend encouraged her to pursue a degree in geophysics.

#1628

Sampat Kumar Tandon

#70189

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Sampat Kumar Tandon is an Indian geologist and a professor emeritus of geology at the University of Delhi. He is a former pro-vice chancellor of Delhi University, Sir J. C. Bose Chair Professor of the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal and a D. N. Wadia Chair Professor of the department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

#1629

R. David Dallmeyer

#144177

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#1630

Ming-guo Zhai

#144209

Overall Influence

#1631

Jennifer C. McIntosh

Jennifer C. McIntosh

#59260

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Jennifer McIntosh is hydrogeologist and professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences, university distinguished scholar at the University of Arizona. In 2019 she was named a Geological Society of America Fellow.

#1632

Claudio Faccenna

#144263

Overall Influence

#1633

Ben Derudder

#144267

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

#1634

Harvey J. Miller

#144362

Overall Influence

#1635

Ilya D. Tsvankin

#144370

Overall Influence

#1636

Paul L. Stoffa

#144416

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#1637

Ng Cho-nam

#49950

Overall Influence

1960 - 2019 (59 years)

Ng Cho-nam , , was a Hong Kong environmental studies scholar and conservationist who taught as an associate professor within the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. He served as a top advisor on numerous Hong Kong government committees in areas of conservation, sustainable development, environmental protection, urban planning, and was an active member in various environmental NGOs. He was the director of the Conservancy Association from 2000 to 2019.

#1638

Christian Wiencke

#144472

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#1639

Yakov A. Pachepsky

#144496

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#1640

Franklin Walter Schwartz

#144565

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#1641

Seth P. Stein

#144647

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#1642

Richard Robertson

#92076

Overall Influence

Richard E. A. Robertson is a Professor of Geology and past Director of the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre. He studied Geology and Volcanology at Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and Leeds University, United Kingdom.

#1643

John Rodgers

#61322

Overall Influence

1914 - 2004 (90 years)

John Rodgers was an American geologist who was Silliman Professor of Geology at Yale University. Biography He was born in Albany, New York to Henry and Louise Rodgers and was educated at Albany Academy. He then studied at Cornell University, where he was awarded a B.A. in 1936 and an M.S. in geology in 1937. He gained a post-graduate Ph.D. at Yale University in 1944. In the latter year, during the Second World War, he joined the Military Geology Branch of the United States Geological Survey and was delegated to map beachheads from Kamchatka in Siberia down to China and Japan.

#1644

Janice Lough

#143029

Overall Influence

Janice Lough is a climate scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science at James Cook University, researching climate change, and impacts of temperature and elevated on coral reefs. She was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2022 for her research in climate change, coral reefs, and developing high resolution environmental and growth histories from corals, particularly the Great Barrier Reef.

#1645

Sulochana Gadgil

#41724

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Sulochana Gadgil is an Indian meteorologist who retired as Professor from the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in Bangalore, India. She has studied the how and why of monsoon, including farming strategies to cope with rainfall variability and modeling ecological and evolutionary phenomena. Her research led to the discovery of a basic feature of the sub-seasonal variation in the monsoon cloud bands. She demonstrated that the monsoon is not a gigantic land-sea breeze but instead is a manifestation of the seasonal migration of a planetary scale system which is seen over non-monsoonal regions as well.

#1646

Howard Simon Wheater

#144932

Overall Influence

#1647

Tim Schwanen

#144948

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

#1648

Dörthe Tetzlaff

#138967

Overall Influence

Dörthe Tetzlaff is a German hydrologist who is Professor of Ecohydrology at Humboldt University zu Berlin and Head of Department at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, since 2017. Tetzlaff was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2018, Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2019, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in 2022 and Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2023.

#1649

Hannah Cloke

#122044

Overall Influence

Hannah Louise Cloke is a British hydrologist who is Professor of Hydrology at the University of Reading. She was awarded the European Geosciences Union Plinius Medal in 2018 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours.

#1650

J. Samuel Arey

#145085

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