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Kerry Sieh
Kerry Sieh is an American geophysicist known for proposing the buried Australasian impact crater in southern Laos and for founding the Earth Observatory of Singapore.
Kevin Burke (geophysicist)
Kevin Burke (1929–2018) was a British-born geologist and geophysicist, professor at the University of Houston, who coined the term Wilson cycle and studied mantle plumes.
Kevin Burton
Kevin W. Burton is an isotope geochemist and Professor of Geochemistry at Durham University since 2007, known for applying rhenium-osmium isotope measurements to mantle rocks and ocean sediments.
Kevin C. Jones
Kevin C. Jones is a British environmental chemist, Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, known for research on persistent organic pollutants and for establishing passive air sampling networks across Europe.
Kevin M. Rosso
Kevin M. Rosso is a Battelle Fellow geochemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, who studies mineral–water interfaces and leads its DOE geochemistry program.
Kingsley Charles Dunham
Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham (1910–2001) was a British geologist, Professor of Geology at Durham University and Director of the Institute of Geological Sciences from 1967 to 1975.
Klaus Mezger
Klaus Mezger, born 1958, is an isotope geochemist and geochronologist, professor of geochemistry at the University of Bern since 2009, now emeritus, known for dating planetary core formation.
Konrad Bates Krauskopf
Konrad Bates Krauskopf (1910–2003) was an American geochemist who spent his career at Stanford University, did seminal work on trace metals in seawater, and wrote the textbook Introduction to Geochemistry.
Kristopher McNeill
Kristopher McNeill, born 1970 in Tucson, Arizona, is an environmental chemist who has been Professor of Environmental Chemistry at ETH Zurich since 2009, after a decade at the University of Minnesota.
Kurt Lambeck
Kurt Lambeck, born 1941 in Utrecht, is a Dutch-born Australian geophysicist and Emeritus Professor at ANU known for reconstructing ice-volume and sea-level history, winning the 2012 Balzan Prize.
Kurt O. Konhauser
Kurt O. Konhauser is a geomicrobiologist and professor at the University of Alberta known for research on banded iron formations, the textbook Introduction to Geomicrobiology, and founding the journal Geobiology.
L. Kent Thomas
L. Kent Thomas, born Leonard Kent Thomas, was an American petroleum engineer who spent 40 years developing reservoir simulators at Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Lars Stixrude
Lars Stixrude is a mineral physicist and professor at UCLA, known for first-principles quantum-mechanical studies of deep-Earth minerals, including a 1993 Nature paper on lower-mantle perovskite stability.
Lauge Koch
Lauge Koch (1892–1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer who mapped North Greenland by dog sledge and led East Greenland expeditions from 1926 to 1958.
Laura Robinson (geochemist)
Laura Robinson is a geochemist and Professor at the University of Bristol who reconstructs past ocean circulation and carbon cycling using isotope dating of deep-sea corals.
Laurence L. Sloss
Laurence L. Sloss (1913–1996) was an American stratigrapher at Northwestern University who subdivided the North American craton's sedimentary record into six unconformity-bounded sequences, pioneering sequence stratigraphy.
Lazarus Fletcher
Sir Lazarus Fletcher (1854–1921) was a British mineralogist and museum director who led the British Museum (Natural History) and wrote an influential 1891 memoir on the optical indicatrix.
Lee R. Kump
Lee R. Kump is an American geoscientist and biogeochemist at Penn State known for work on the carbon cycle, mass extinctions, and atmospheric oxygen, and dean from 2017 to 2026.
Lennart von Post
Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post (1884–1951) was a Swedish geologist who introduced the quantitative pollen diagram, reconstructing postglacial vegetation and climate history from fossil pollen in peat bogs.
Leo Lesquereux
Leo Lesquereux (1806–1889) was a Swiss-born American bryologist and paleobotanist who described the fossil floras of North America's coal measures and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1864.
Leon Knopoff
Leon Knopoff (1925–2011) was an American geophysicist at UCLA for 60 years, known as the father of statistical seismology and for the spring-block model of earthquake faulting.
Leon Silver
Leon T. "Lee" Silver (1925–2022) was an American geologist and geochemist at Caltech who developed uranium-lead dating of zircon and trained the Apollo astronauts in field geology.
Leonard F. Konikow
Leonard F. Konikow is an American groundwater hydrologist who spent 42 years at the US Geological Survey, developing widely used solute-transport models and quantifying US groundwater depletion.
Leonard Hawkes
Leonard Hawkes (1891–1981) was a British geologist and leading authority on the geology of Iceland, who headed the geology department at Bedford College, London, from 1921 to 1956.
Leonard Johnston Wills
Leonard Johnston Wills (1884–1979) was a British geologist who mapped the buried Palaeozoic floor of England and Wales in late Geological Society memoirs, after survey work and a study of concealed coalfields.
Leonid Dubrovinsky
Leonid Dubrovinsky (born 1961) is a high-pressure mineral physicist and professor at the University of Bayreuth known for generating static pressures beyond 1 terapascal in the laboratory and synthesizing new materials there.
Lisa Tauxe
Lisa Tauxe is a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for reconstructing the past intensity of Earth's magnetic field; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Liu Dongsheng
Liu Dongsheng (刘东生; 1917–2008) was a Chinese geologist known as the father of loess, who turned China's Loess Plateau deposits into a continuous 2.5-million-year climate record, winning the Tyler Prize in 2002.
Lloyd Berkner
Lloyd Berkner (1905–1967) was an American geophysicist and electrical engineer who built the first automatic ionospheric observatories and proposed the International Geophysical Year of 1957–1958.
Lloyd D Keigwin
Lloyd D Keigwin is a paleoceanographer and Senior Scientist in Geology and Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, known for reconstructing past Atlantic ocean circulation from deep-sea sediments.