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List of the most influential people in Earth Sciences,

#2401

Priyadarshi R. Shukla

#176334

Overall Influence

Priyadarshi R Shukla is an Indian academician and along with James Skea is the co-chair for Working Group III of IPCC. He is a distinguished professor at Ahmedabad University and the chair of the Global Center for Environment and Energy.

#2402

Laurie Menviel

#49083

Overall Influence

Laurie Menviel or L. Menviel; Laurie Menviel is a palaeoclimatologist, and a Scientia fellow, at the University of New South Wales, who was awarded a Dorothy Hill Medal in 2019. Career and education Menviel was awarded a Masters of Geochemistry at the University of Aix-Marseilee, France, in 2002, and then a PhD in Chemical Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi, in 2008.

#2403

Mátyás Vremir

#143679

Overall Influence

1970 - 2020 (50 years)

Mátyás Vremir was a Romanian geologist and palaeontologist. Education and career Vremir was born on 13 November 1970 in Cluj, the son of artists Mircea Vremir and Ildikó Kováts. He studied geology at Babeş-Bolyai University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1999 and a master's degree in 2001. After graduating he had a varied career as a teacher, geological consultant for the petroleum industry in Central Africa and with his own firm in Cluj, and owner of a Tatar-themed bar. He also worked for several museums in Hungary and was affiliated with the Transylvanian Museum Society.

#2404

Ghislaine Crozaz

#140193

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Ghislaine Crozaz is a cosmochemist known for her research on the early history of the solar system through tracking trace elements in meteorites. Education and career Crozaz received a B.Sc. in 1961 and a Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Brussels. In 1967, and from 1971 to 1972, she was a visiting associate in Geochemistry at California Institute of Technology. She moved to Washington University in St. Louis as a postdoctoral investigator in the lab of Robert M. Walker . As of 2021, she is professor emerita in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and lives i...

#2405

György Enyedi

#93372

Overall Influence

1930 - 2012 (82 years)

György Enyedi was an economist and geographer who has played a major role in the long-term development of regional science. In the second part of the 20th century due to the rapid development of integrative spatial sciences, regional science became an independent discipline - György Enyedi is a decisive figure in this process.

#2406

Roy Spencer

#173651

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Roy Warren Spencer is an American meteorologist. He is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite. He has served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. He is known for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work, for which he was awarded the American Meteorological Society's Special Award. Spencer disagrees with the scientific consensus that most global warming in the past 50 years is the result of human activity...

#2407

Joseph Whitney

#169255

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Joseph Bevan Robertson Whitney was a political and environmental geographer. He was a professor of geography at the University of Toronto, and studied Chinese culture and politics. Early life and education Whitney graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in geography in 1950. He then taught geography at St. Mark's School in Hong Kong for twelve years. He subsequently studied and conducted research at the University of Chicago, earning a Ph.D. in 1969. Whitney then joined the geography department at the University of Toronto.

#2408

Rachel Wood

#88986

Overall Influence

Rachel Wood is a palaeobiologist, geologist and Professor of Carbonate Geoscience at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences. Her research covers the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition, the origin of biomineralisation, the evolution of reef systems, and carbonate production through time.

#2409

Sanjeev Gupta

#177024

Overall Influence

Sanjeev Gupta is professor of Earth Science at Imperial College London. Gupta is part of three rover missions. He contributes extensively to NASA's Mars Science Laboratory's rover mission, Curiosity, which is currently exploring Gale Crater. More recently, Gupta is working alongside NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, Perseverance, exploring a delta in Jezero crater. Gupta is also part of the PanCam instrument science team from the European Space Agency's planned Mars rover, Rosalind Franklin, which is set to land on Mars by the end of the 2020s.

#2410

Bruce H. Tiffney

#126884

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Bruce Haynes Tiffney is an American paleobotanist, professor, and the former dean of the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He graduated from Boston University with a degree in geology in 1971, and after earning his PhD at Harvard University in 1977, he became a professor of biology at Yale University, where he taught for nine years, and where he also worked as a curator of the D. C. Eaton Herbarium and paleontological collections at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. His research focuses on the evolution of flowering plants in the fossil record. ...

#2411

Zhao Qiguo

#116512

Overall Influence

1930 - 2023 (93 years)

Zhao Qiguo was a Chinese soil scientist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was president of the Soil Science Society of China from 1987 to 1995. Biography Zhao was born in Hankou , on 25 February 1930. In 1949, he was admitted to the Department of Agronomy, Wuhan University. Due to the 1952 reorganisation of Chinese higher education, he became a student of Huazhong Agricultural University.

#2412

Daniel Parsons

#90794

Overall Influence

Daniel Roy Parsons is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Loughborough University and holds the Personal Title of Professor in Geosciences. He was the founding Director of the Energy and Environment Institute and a professor of process sedimentology at the University of Hull from 2011 to 2022. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Illinois and Can Tho University . He obtained his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2004. Parsons is known for his work on flow processes and sediment transport in rivers, coasts and estuaries, and the deep sea. This includes work...

#2413

Zenobia Jacobs

#176064

Overall Influence

Zenobia Jacobs is a South African-born archaeologist and earth scientist specialising in geochronology. She is a professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Education and career Jacobs graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, in 1998, studying archaeology and geography, and received her PhD from Aberystwyth University, Wales, in 2004. She joined the University of Wollongong as a research fellow in 2006 and is currently a professor in the Centre for Archaeological Science and the School of Earth of Environmental Sciences. She is also an Australian Research Counci...

#2414

Matthew F. Bekker

#134791

Overall Influence

Matthew F. Bekker is an environmental geographer and dendrochronologist. He is a professor of geography at Brigham Young University . Bekker has a bachelor's degree from BYU, a master's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Iowa. Much of his study has been on the effects of forest fires in California . In 2014 and 2015 he was co-publisher on papers related to the flow of rivers in northern Utah over the last several hundred years. He is most known through his frequently cited publication on the positive feedback between tree establishment and forest advancement .

#2415

Michael J. Bradshaw

#155541

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Michael Joseph Bradshaw is a British geographer. He is a former vice president of the Royal Geographical Society and professor of global energy at Warwick Business School. Biography BSc from the University of Birmingham, his MA from the University of Calgary and his PhD at the University of British Columbia. His background is in human geography. Until January 2014, Bradshaw served as professor of human geography at the University of Leicester. Bradshaw serves as professor of global energy at Warwick Business School. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.

#2416

Donald Johnson

#177133

Overall Influence

#2417

Werner Kuhn

#175298

Overall Influence

Werner Kuhn is a professor of Geographic Information Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. He served as the Director of the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies, and is one of the founding members of the Vespucci Initiative for Advancing Geographic Information Science, organizing annual summer schools and specialist meetings.

#2418

Tiffany Shaw

#84185

Overall Influence

Tiffany Shaw is a geophysical scientist from Canada. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Chicago. She is known for her extensive contributions to the geophysical and atmospheric sciences.

#2419

Dominique Bachelet

#88392

Overall Influence

Dominique Bachelet is a senior climate change scientist and associate professor in Oregon State University, with over 38 years of education and work in the fields of climate change, fire, and ecology. She has worked to make science more accessible, by creating web based resources with various scientific organizations . She returned to Oregon State University in 2017 but has continued her outreach work, getting valuable information to students, scientists, and scholars.

#2420

Robert Dolan

#167910

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

Robert "Bob" Dolan was a Professor of Coastal Geology at the University of Virginia. Born in Los Angeles, California, he received his a BS from Southern Oregon College in 1955 He received a Distinguished Professor award from the University of Virginia in 1991 and received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Southern Oregon College and the Significant Contributions to the Science Program by the Department of the Interior in 1987. He served as the associate editor, Journal of Coastal Research, and was a member of Sigma Xi, American Shore and Beach Association and the American Geophysical Uni...

#2421

Holly Stein

#174242

Overall Influence

Holly Jayne Stein is an American geologist who is a senior research scientist and a professor at Colorado State University. She established the AIRIE Program and has led the center since 1995. Her research focuses on the development of the rhenium-osmium geochronometers. In 2015, she was elected Geochemistry Fellow of the European Association of Geochemistry.

#2422

Stephanie Pincetl

#141212

Overall Influence

Stephanie Pincetl is an American academic specializing in the intersection of urban policy and the environment, particularly in California. She is the Director of the UCLA Center for Sustainable Urban Systems in Los Angeles.

#2423

Gesa Weyhenmeyer

#169377

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer is a Swedish limnologist who is working as a professor and distinguished teacher at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and known for her pioneering research on the role and response of lake ecosystems in the Earth's climate system. Her research requires a holistic and global perspective, for which she collaborates with members of the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network . In addition to GLEON, Weyhenmeyer is actively engaged in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , both as official reviewer and contributi...

#2424

David Coleman

#60078

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

David Anwyll Coleman is a demographer and anthropologist who served as the Professor of Demography at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford from October 2002 until 2013, and a lecturer since 1980.

#2425

Simona Bordoni

#174056

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Simona Bordoni is an Italian climatologist and professor of environmental science and engineering who runs the Simona Bordoni Research Group at California Institute of Technology. She studies atmospheric dynamics, with a special emphasis on understanding the coupling between larger-scale circulations and the hydrological cycle.

#2426

Dana Royer

#151642

Overall Influence

Dana Leviticus Royer is a geoscientist specializing in paleobotany at Wesleyan University. Education Royer attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his PhD from Yale University, studying under Leo Hickey and Robert Berner. He also studied with David Beerling at the University of Sheffield.

#2427

Carmala Garzione

#139156

Overall Influence

Carmala Nina Garzione is an American geologist who is Professor of Geosciences and Dean of the College of Science at the University of Arizona. Previously, she was Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and prior to that she was a professor at the University of Rochester. She was awarded the 2009 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

#2428

Breck Bowden

#169486

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

William Breckenridge "Breck" Bowden is an American environmental scientist, currently the Robert and Genevieve Patrick Professor of Watershed Science & Planning and Director of the Vermont Water Resources and Lake Science Center, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, and also a published author.

#2429

Anne Jefferson

#175695

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Anne Jarvis Jefferson is an American hydrologist who specializes in watershed hydrology, urban hydrology, and hydroecology. As of 2023, she is the Patrick Chair in Watershed Science and Planning at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. Previously she was an associate professor at Kent State University in the Department of Geology, which became the Department of Earth Sciences.

#2430

Kate Hutton

#52600

Overall Influence

Kate Hutton, nicknamed the Earthquake Lady, Dr. Kate, or Earthquake Kate, is a former staff seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, where she monitored Southern California's earthquake activity for 37 years.

#2431

Rachel Wynberg

#91358

Overall Influence

Rachel P. Wynberg is a South African biodiversity researcher and natural scientist who is a professor at the department of Environmental and Geography Sciences at the University of Cape Town. Life and work

#2432

Imre E. Quastler

#141430

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Imre E. Quastler is an American historical transportation geographer and an authority on aspects of regional transportation systems in the United States. He is Emeritus Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at San Diego State University. He writes professionally under the name I. E. Quastler.

#2433

Miguel Ángel Troitiño

Miguel Ángel Troitiño

#170482

Overall Influence

1947 - 2020 (73 years)

Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa was a Spanish geographer, professor of human geography at the Complutense University of Madrid . He was an expert in cultural tourism and heritage preservation. Biography Born in El Arenal, province of Ávila, Spain, in 1947, Troitiño earned a licentiate degree in Geography and History from the UCM. He obtained a PhD in Geography in 1979 from the UCM, reading a dissertation on the city of Cuenca, titled Cuenca, la crisis de una vieja ciudad castellana and supervised by . A lecturer at the UCM since 1973, he obtained a Chair of Human Geography in 1991.

#2434

Jake Hancock

#99213

Overall Influence

1928 - 2004 (76 years)

John Michael Hancock , known professionally as Jake, was a geologist with particular interests in chalk and the Cretaceous Period. Biography Hancock was born on 10 August 1928 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, educated at Dauntsey's School near Devizes and was a national serviceman in the Royal Air Force between 1947 and 1949, before going to the University of Cambridge to read geology and petrology as an undergraduate.

#2435

Philip N. Cohen

Philip N. Cohen

#38328

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Philip N. Cohen is an American sociologist. He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and director of SocArXiv, an open archive of the social sciences. Early life Cohen grew up in Ithaca, New York and attended the Lehman Alternative Community School.

#2436

Sharon Robinson

#176493

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Sharon Anita Robinson is an Antarctic researcher known for her work on climate change and bryophytes. She is Deputy-Director Science Implementation and UOW Node Lead of the Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future program, a Special Research Initiative on Excellence in Antarctic Science from the Australian Research Council, awarded $36 million over a seven year period . She is also the Dean of Researcher Development and Integrity at the University of Wollongong.

#2437

John D. Morris

#30475

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

John David Morris was an American young earth creationist. He was the son of "the father of creation science", Henry M. Morris, and served as president of the Institute for Creation Research from the time of his father's retirement in 1996 until 2020. Morris was a creationist author and spoke at a variety of churches. Many of his presentations discussed the fossil record and its relation to evolution.

#2438

Rachel Abercrombie

#176904

Overall Influence

Rachel Abercrombie is a seismologist at Boston University known for her research on the process of earthquake ruptures. Education and career Abercrombie has a B.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from the University of Reading . Following her Ph.D. she worked in California at the Southern California Earthquake Center and at the University of Southern California. After three years in New Zealand at the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, she went to Harvard University from 1998 to 2001. She joined Boston University in 2001, and became a Research Associate Professor in 2006.

#2439

Seyed Kazem Alavipanah

Seyed Kazem Alavipanah

#119012

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Seyed Kazem Alavipanah is a professor of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System at University of Tehran, and current Head of Department of Remote Sensing and GIS of University of Tehran. Education and career Prof. Seyed Kazem Alavipanah was born in 1958 in Abarkuh, Yazd, Iran. In 1976, he was admitted to the College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, in the field of pedology, and received his BSc in 1983. He commenced his master's degree program in pedology at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, in 1988 and graduated in 1991. He received a PhD, from a Belgian University in 1997 in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems , minoring in pedology.

#2440

Monica Cole

#90446

Overall Influence

1922 - 1994 (72 years)

Monica Mary Cole was an English geographer and lecturer. She was appointed geography lecturer at the University of Cape Town in 1947 before joining the staff of the University of the Witwatersrand's Department of Geography the following year. Cole became a senior lecturer at Keele University in 1951 and was appointed Chair of Geography at her alma mater Bedford College, London in 1964. She resigned her position in 1975 and was made Director of Research in Geobotany, Terrain Analysis, and Related Resource Use, which she held until her retirement in 1987. Cole was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Murchison Award in 1987.

#2441

Eric Guilyardi

#177977

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Eric Guilyardi is a climate scientist, professor in the department of meteorology at the University of Reading and directeur de recherche CNRS at LOCEAN at Institute Pierre Simon Laplace in Paris, France. He is an expert of the El Niño phenomenon. He has been a Lead Author for the IPCC AR5 report.

#2442

Thomas John Bisika

#61758

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Thomas John Bisika is a social demographer and public health specialist, diplomat, and former health systems specialist at World Health Organization in Nigeria.He is the current Malawi High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

#2443

Geoffrey Thompson

#178056

Overall Influence

#2444

Kim Kastens

#168457

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Kim Anne Kastens is an American geophysicist who is a professor at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory. She was awarded the American Geophysical Union Excellence in Earth and Space Science Education Award in 2009 and elected Fellow in 2021.

#2445

Arthur Weglein

#140766

Overall Influence

Arthur Weglein is an American seismologist. He is the Hugh Roy & Lillie Cranz Cullen distinguished professor of physics at the University of Houston, and director of its Mission-oriented Seismic Research Program. He received the Townsend Harris Medal of the City College of New York in 2008 for his contributions to seismology. He received the Reginald Fessenden Award of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists in 2010. He received the Maurice Ewing Medal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists in 2016.

#2446

Antje Weisheimer

#170987

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Antje Weisheimer is a German climate scientist researching at the University of Oxford, UK, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK. Life Weisheimer received her PhD in 2000 from the Department of Atmospheric Physics of the University of Potsdam. In 2002 to 2003 she was a Marie Curie fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Weisheimer was an assistant professor at the Institute of Meteorology within the Freie Universität Berlin from 2003 to 2005 before changing to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK. Since ...

#2447

Nina Laurie

#176621

Overall Influence

Nina Laurie is a British geographer and academic. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Geography and Development at the University of St Andrews. Career Laurie graduated from Newcastle University with a BA and from McGill University in Canada with an MA before she carried out doctoral studies at University College London; her PhD was awarded in 1995 for her thesis "Negotiating gender: women and emergency employment in Peru". She joined the faculty at Newcastle University in 1992 as a lecturer and in 2002 was promoted to a senior lectureship. She was appointed Professor of Development and the Environment in 2005.

#2448

Matthew Bennett

#134422

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Matthew Bennett is professor of environmental and geographical sciences at Bournemouth University. He is a specialist in ancient footprints and has developed the Fossil Footprint Archive jointly with Robin Crompton of the University of Liverpool.

#2449

Daniel Garcia-Castellanos

#178143

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Daniel Garcia-Castellanos is a Spanish scientist at the Spanish National Research Council who investigates in the field of geophysics and is known for his theory about the catastrophic flooding of the Mediterranean Sea in the recent geological past, an event known as the Zanclean flood. Other scientific contributions deal with the evolution of the Earth's relief as a result of the deep geodynamic phenomena of the Earth’s interior interacting with the erosion and climate at the surface.

#2450

Deborah Kelley

#154503

Overall Influence

Deborah Sue Kelley is a marine geologist who studies hydrothermal vents, active submarine volcanoes, and life in these regions of the deep ocean. Early life and education Kelley was born in 1958 and grew up in Bellevue, Washington. Her father died right when she finished high school, which required her to work full-time to put herself through college. Her sister, brother, and Kelley were all first-generation college students.

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