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Julian A. Dowdeswell
Julian A. Dowdeswell, born 1957, is a British glaciologist, Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography at Cambridge, and former Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, known for work on ice-sheet retreat.
Julius Erasmus Hilgard
Julius Erasmus Hilgard was a German-born American geodesist who led the United States Coast Survey from 1881 to 1885 and was an original member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Jun Korenaga
Jun Korenaga is a geophysicist and professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Yale University, known for work on plate tectonics, mantle convection, and Earth's thermal history.
Jung‐Fu Lin
Jung-Fu Lin, known as Afu, is a Taiwanese-American geophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin who studies the mineral physics of the Earth's deep interior.
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield is a British-based hydrologist, Professor and Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton, known for global drought monitoring and analysis.
Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs is a German organic geochemist and biogeochemist, professor at the University of Bremen and MARUM since 2002, known for identifying methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments.
Karen C. Seto
Karen C. Seto is an American urban and land change scientist at Yale who uses satellite remote sensing to measure urban expansion and its effects on croplands and carbon emissions.
Karl Alfred von Zittel
Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839–1904) was a German paleontologist, professor at Munich from 1866 and director of its paleontological museum, best known for the Handbuch der Palaeontologie (1876–93).
Karl K. Turekian
Karl K. Turekian (1927–2013) was an American geochemist who spent his career at Yale University, best known for osmium-isotope measurements supporting the meteorite impact that ended the dinosaurs.
Karl W. Butzer
Karl W. Butzer (1934–2016) was a German-born American geographer and geoarchaeologist who pioneered geoarchaeology, studied ancient Egypt's environment, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.
Karsten Pruess
Karsten Pruess is a German-trained theoretical physicist and reservoir engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, best known as chief author of the TOUGH2 simulator family.
Katharine Venable Cashman
Katharine Venable Cashman is an American volcanologist, born 1954, known for her 2017 Science review proposing that magma is stored in vertically extensive systems spanning the whole crust.
Katherine Allstadt
Katherine (Kate) Allstadt is an American research geophysicist with the USGS Landslide Hazards Program in Golden, Colorado, known for using seismic recordings to study landslides, debris flows, and lahars.
Katherine H. Freeman
Katherine H. Freeman is an American isotope geochemist at Penn State who reconstructs ancient climates from organic molecules and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Kathrin Fenner
Kathrin Fenner, born 1972 in Zürich, is a Swiss environmental chemist at Eawag who studies how organic contaminants transform in the environment and leads the enviPath biotransformation database.
Kathryn Whaler
Kathryn (Kathy) Whaler is a British geophysicist, Professor of Geophysics at Edinburgh since 1994, the first woman elected to a UK geophysics chair and IUGG president.
Katrina J. Edwards
Katrina J. Edwards (1968–2014) was an American geomicrobiologist, professor at the University of Southern California, and founding director of C-DEBI, who showed that microbes thrive in rocks beneath the seafloor.
Kay Behrensmeyer
Anna K. ("Kay") Behrensmeyer is an American taphonomist and paleoecologist, a Smithsonian research curator since 1981, known for pioneering taphonomy and her long-running Amboseli bone study in Kenya.
Kei Hirose
Kei Hirose (廣瀬敬, born 1968) is a Japanese high-pressure geophysicist at the University of Tokyo, known for the 2004 discovery of post-perovskite and for laser-heated diamond-anvil cell experiments reaching Earth's center conditions.
Keiiti Aki
Keiiti Aki (1930–2005) was a Japanese-born seismologist, professor at MIT and USC, who created the seismic moment concept behind the moment magnitude scale, pioneered seismic tomography, and co-authored Quantitative Seismology.
Keith A. Kvenvolden
Keith A. Kvenvolden, born 1930 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is an American organic geochemist known for Murchison meteorite amino-acid research at NASA and gas hydrate studies at the USGS.
Keith Beven
Keith J. Beven is a British hydrologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University, known for TOPMODEL and the GLUE uncertainty methodology and elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2017.
Keith Edward Bullen
Keith Edward Bullen (1906–1976) was a New Zealand-born seismologist and mathematical geophysicist, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney, known for his 1936 Earth density model.
Keith Runcorn
Keith Runcorn, full name Stanley Keith Runcorn, was a British geophysicist (1922–1995) whose paleomagnetic studies gave early evidence for continental drift, and who inferred from Apollo samples that the Moon once had a magnetic field.
Kelin Wang
Kelin Wang (王克林) is a Chinese Canadian research geophysicist at the Geological Survey of Canada's Pacific Geoscience Centre in British Columbia, known for subduction-zone earthquake and tsunami hazard research.
Kelin X. Whipple
Kelin X. Whipple is an American geomorphologist at Arizona State University who studies how climate and tectonics shape mountains, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley (born 1964) is an American isotope geochemist, W.M. Keck Professor at Caltech, known for apatite helium thermochronology and as Mars 2020 Perseverance project scientist.
Kenneth Creer
Kenneth Creer (1925–2020) was a British geophysicist who pioneered palaeomagnetism, compiling the first apparent polar wander path in 1954, the first physical test of continental drift.
Kenneth Hsu
Kenneth Hsu, full name Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü (许靖华), born 1929, is a Chinese-Swiss geologist at ETH Zurich whose deep-sea drilling showed the Mediterranean dried up in the late Miocene.
Kenneth M. Kemner
Kenneth M. Kemner is an Argonne National Laboratory scientist known for using synchrotron X-ray techniques to study microorganisms, metals, and minerals in soils, sediments, and aquifers.