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James M. Harrison
James M. Harrison (1915–1990) was a Canadian geologist who directed the Geological Survey of Canada and was the first President of the International Union of Geological Sciences.
James M.D. Day
James M.D. Day (James Martin Dines Day) is an isotope geochemist and planetary scientist, a professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who directs its Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory.
James P. Kennett
James P. Kennett, born 1940 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a marine geologist and paleoceanographer at UC Santa Barbara known as a founding figure of paleoceanography.
James Perrin Smith
James Perrin Smith (1864–1931) was an American geologist and paleontologist, professor at Stanford from 1892 to 1930, best known for studying western Mesozoic formations and ammonites.
James R. O’Neil
James R. O'Neil is an American stable isotope geochemist and University of Michigan professor emeritus known for calibrating oxygen isotope geothermometers and for work on paleoclimate and the Adirondack anorthosite.
James R. Rice
James R. Rice, born 1940 in Maryland, is an American engineer and geophysicist, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for the J-integral and studies of how earthquake ruptures begin and spread.
James W. Head
James W. Head is an American planetary geologist at Brown University who worked on Apollo landing-site selection and missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
James W. Kirchner
James W. Kirchner is a hydrologist and earth scientist who taught at Berkeley and ETH Zurich and led Nature studies of groundwater decline, streamflow loss to aquifers, and catchment hydrology.
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert is a Swedish-trained hydrologist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for the HBV-light runoff model and bias correction of climate model output.
Jan Smit (Dutch geologist)
Jan Smit (born 1948, The Hague) is a Dutch geologist and stratigrapher, professor emeritus at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for his work on the Chicxulub impact and dinosaur extinction.
Ján Veizer
Ján Veizer, also published as Jan Veizer, is an isotope geochemist and paleontologist at the University of Ottawa who built the Phanerozoic seawater isotope record from fossil shells.
Jean Albert Gaudry
Jean Albert Gaudry (1827–1908) was a French geologist and paleontologist known for the fossil mammals of Pikermi, Greece, and for introducing Darwinian ideas in France.
Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874) was a French geologist, professor at the École des Mines de Paris, known for the first complete geological map of France.
Jean Goguel
Jean Goguel (1908–1987) was a French geologist and geophysicist, professor at the École des Mines de Paris, who applied mechanics and gravity data to tectonics and wrote the Traité de tectonique.
Jean-Michel M. Rendu
Jean-Michel M. Rendu is a French-educated mining engineer and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a foremost authority on mineral resource and reserve estimation.
Jean-Philippe Avouac
Jean-Philippe Avouac is a French geophysicist at Caltech who studies crustal deformation, earthquakes, and the seismic cycle, and was named director of IPGP in 2026.
Jean‐Bernard Caron
Jean-Bernard Caron is a French-Canadian invertebrate paleontologist who leads Burgess Shale expeditions, studies Cambrian explosion fossils, and became the Royal Ontario Museum's Ivey Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology in 2018.
Jean‐Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron is a French senior research scientist at INRAE in Bordeaux, where he heads the remote sensing team and developed the L-MEB model behind ESA's SMOS soil-moisture mission.
Jeffrey Dean Niemann
Jeffrey Dean Niemann is an American hydrologist and Faoro Professor of Water Resources at Colorado State University, known for river-network scaling research and for modeling soil moisture, snowpack, and streamflow.
Jeffrey McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell is a Canadian hydrologist at the University of Saskatchewan known for field studies of streamflow generation and a landmark 2015 Nature paper on plant water use.
Jeffrey Pigati
Jeffrey S. Pigati is an American research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver who helped date human footprints at White Sands to about 23,000 years ago.
Jenny Suckale
Jenny Suckale, also known as Jennifer Suckale, is an American geophysicist and Associate Professor at Stanford University who builds mathematical models of volcanic eruptions, ice-sheet instability, and coastal flooding.
Jery R. Stedinger
Jery R. Stedinger is an American hydrologist and Cornell professor since 1977, known for flood frequency analysis and the 1981 textbook Water Resource Systems Planning and Analysis.
Jess F. Adkins
Jess F. Adkins is an American chemical oceanographer and paleoceanographer at Caltech since 2000, known for developing deep-sea corals as an archive of past deep-ocean circulation.
Jessica Elzea Kogel
Jessica Elzea Kogel was an American mining geologist who led NIOSH's mining research program from 2016 to 2022 and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Jesus Carrera
Jesús Carrera is a Spanish hydrogeologist and Research Professor at Spain's CSIC since 2006, known for inverse modeling of groundwater flow, reactive transport simulation, and managed aquifer recharge.
Jethro Teall
Jethro Teall (1849–1924) was a British geologist who wrote the landmark British Petrography (1888) and directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1901 to 1914.
Jia Lanpo
Jia Lanpo (贾兰坡, 1908–2001) was a Chinese paleoanthropologist and Quaternary geologist who directed the Peking Man excavations at Zhoukoudian, helping unearth 45 Homo erectus fossils there.
Jianli Chen
Jianli Chen is a space geodesist and hydrologist who applies satellite gravimetry to measure Earth's water and ice changes. He is a 2005 PECASE recipient.
Jillian Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield is a geomicrobiologist and professor at UC Berkeley who pioneered reconstructing whole genomes from natural microbial communities, reshaping the Tree of Life.