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John Smol
John P. Smol is a Canadian paleolimnologist and Distinguished University Professor at Queen's University who founded the PEARL laboratory, documented acid rain damage to lakes, and tracked Arctic climate warming.
John Southon
John R. Southon is an Earth scientist who directs the W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle AMS Facility at UC Irvine, where his laboratory measures about 500 radiocarbon samples per month.
John Strong Newberry
John Strong Newberry (1822–1892) was an American geologist and paleontologist, the first trained geologist to visit the Grand Canyon and leader of the second Ohio Geological Survey.
John Suppe
John Suppe, born 1942 in Los Angeles, is an American structural geologist known for fault-bend folding, critical-taper wedge mechanics, and a tectonic chronology of Venus; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.
John T. Andrews
John T. Andrews, born in 1937 in England, is a glacial geologist and paleoclimatologist at the University of Colorado Boulder who received the 2016 Penrose Medal.
John Tilton Hack
John Tilton Hack (1913–1991) was an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who proposed dynamic equilibrium in landscape evolution, the idea that slopes and streams are mutually adjusted.
John Tuzo Wilson
John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist at the University of Toronto who won worldwide acclaim for contributions to the theory of plate tectonics.
John Verhoogen
John Verhoogen (1912–1993) was a Belgian-born American geophysicist at UC Berkeley whose 1961 heat balance of the Earth's core identified inner-core solidification as a possible energy source for the geodynamo.
John Vidale
John Vidale is an American seismologist, the Dean's Professor of Earth Sciences at USC and director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
John W. Valley
John W. Valley is an American isotope geochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose zircon oxygen isotope work showed oceans existed over 4 billion years ago.
John Wahr
John Wahr was an American geophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder who used GRACE satellite gravity data to make the first estimates of polar ice-sheet loss.
John Wesley Judd
John Wesley Judd (1840–1916) was a British geologist and petrographer who established the volcanic origin of the Hebridean lava plateaus and taught at the Royal School of Mines.
John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was an American geologist and explorer who led the 1869 Colorado River expedition through the Grand Canyon and directed the U.S. Geological Survey.
John West Wells
John West Wells (1907–1994) was an American paleontologist and authority on fossil and modern corals, a Cornell professor known for using coral growth lines to show Earth's rotation is slowing.
John Woodhouse (seismologist)
John H. Woodhouse is a seismologist and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford, known for mapping the Earth's interior in three dimensions, discovering inner-core anisotropy, and the Centroid Moment Tensor technique.
Jonathan A. Foley
Jonathan A. Foley is an American earth-systems scientist whose research linked climate, land use, and the global food system, and who leads the climate-solutions organization Project Drawdown.
Jonathan Abbatt
Jonathan P. D. Abbatt is a Canadian atmospheric chemist and professor at the University of Toronto who led the NETCARE Arctic research network and received the Chemical Institute of Canada Medal in 2020.
Jonathan Bamber
Jonathan L. Bamber is an Earth observation scientist and professor at the University of Bristol who uses satellite data to study the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and sea-level rise.
Jonathan F. Stebbins
Jonathan F. Stebbins, also published as J. F. Stebbins, is an American geochemist and emeritus professor at Stanford University known for NMR studies of silicate minerals and glasses.
Jonathan L. Payne
Jonathan L. Payne is an American paleobiologist and Dorrell William Kirby Professor at Stanford University, known for quantitative studies of mass extinctions and extinction selectivity in the fossil record.
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory is a climate scientist at the University of Reading who studies climate sensitivity and sea-level change and served as an IPCC lead author.
Jonathan T. Overpeck
Jonathan T. Overpeck is an American climate scientist and paleoclimatologist who has led the University of Michigan's environment school since 2017 and helped define the term "megadrought."
Jonathan Williams (atmospheric chemist)
Jonathan Williams is a British atmospheric chemist who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, known for measuring volatile organic compounds.
Joost Businger
Joost Alois Businger (1924–2023) was a Dutch-born American atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, known for the 1971 flux-profile relationships and developing the sonic anemometer.
Jorge L. Sarmiento
Jorge L. Sarmiento, a Peruvian-born American ocean biogeochemist at Princeton University, helped found ocean biogeochemistry and establish the Southern Ocean's control over atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Jos Lelieveld
Jos Lelieveld, born 1955, is a Dutch atmospheric scientist who led the Atmospheric Chemistry Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz from 2000 to 2025.
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry is an American plant physiologist and earth scientist, Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus at the Carnegie Institution, known for work on photosynthesis and gas exchange.
Joseph Barrell
Joseph Barrell (1869–1919) was an American geologist and engineer who joined Yale in 1903, known for work on isostasy, sedimentation, geologic time, and the origin of the Earth.
Joseph G. Richardson
Joseph G. Richardson (1923–2007) was an American petroleum reservoir engineer whose waterflooding research at Humble Oil and Exxon earned election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Joseph Hoover Mackin
Joseph Hoover Mackin (1905–1968) was an American geomorphologist known for the graded river concept in his 1948 paper, a mainstay of fluvial geomorphology; he was a National Academy of Sciences member.