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Joseph J. Pignatello
Joseph J. Pignatello is an American environmental chemist who led a 38-year research program at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, studying contaminant sorption and water oxidation.
Joseph LeConte
Joseph LeConte (1823–1901) was an American geologist, chemist, and educator, the first professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding Sierra Club member.
Joseph M. Prospero
Joseph M. Prospero is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Miami known as the "father of dust" for pioneering the study of Saharan dust transport across the Atlantic.
Joseph P. Colgan
Joseph P. Colgan is an American research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver who studies Cenozoic tectonics and volcanism in the western United States.
Joseph P. Iddings
Joseph P. Iddings (1857–1920) was an American petrologist who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, deciphered Yellowstone's igneous geology, and co-created the C.I.P.W. classification of igneous rocks.
Joseph Pedlosky
Joseph Pedlosky is an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985 and author of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Joseph Smagorinsky
Joseph Smagorinsky (1924–2005) was an American meteorologist who founded and directed NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory from 1955 to 1983, pioneering computer modeling of weather and climate.
Joseph Tyrrell
Joseph Burr Tyrrell was a Canadian geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada who in 1884 found the Albertosaurus skull in the Alberta badlands and later explored the Barren Lands.
Joseph Victor Smith
Joseph Victor Smith (1928–2007) was an English mineralogist and crystallographer who spent 45 years as a University of Chicago professor, known for feldspar crystal structures, zeolite frameworks, and Apollo lunar sample analysis.
Josiah P. Cooke
Josiah P. Cooke was an American chemist and mineralogist who held Harvard's Erving Professorship from 1850 until 1894, known for atomic-weight measurements and pioneering laboratory teaching.
Josiah Whitney
Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist who directed the California Geological Survey from 1860 to 1874 and later taught at Harvard; Mount Whitney is named for him.
Jovan Cvijić
Jovan Cvijić (Јован Цвијић, 1865–1927) was a Serbian geographer who founded karstology, served as rector of the University of Belgrade, and advised at the 1919 Paris peace conference.
Joyce E. Penner
Joyce E. Penner, also known as J. E. Penner, is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan known for research on aerosol radiative forcing, nuclear winter, and aviation climate effects.
Judith Curry
Judith Curry is an American atmospheric scientist known for research on hurricanes and sea ice, and for her public critique of how the IPCC handles uncertainty.
Jule Gregory Charney
Jule Gregory Charney (1917–1981) was an American meteorologist who founded modern dynamical meteorology, explained cyclone development through baroclinic instability theory, and led the first computer weather forecast in 1950.
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.
Julius von Hann
Julius Ferdinand von Hann (1839–1921) was an Austrian meteorologist, director of the Vienna Zentralanstalt, whose 1866 foehn theory and climatology handbooks made him a founder of scientific climatology.
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.
K. O. Emery
K. O. Emery, born Kenneth Orris Emery, was a Canadian-born marine geologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who reconstructed drowned landscapes and sea-level history of continental shelves.
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.
Kamran Abbasi
Kamran Abbasi is a British physician and medical editor, editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine since 2005 and editor in chief of The BMJ since 2022.
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 E. Taylor
Karl E. Taylor is an American climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who has coordinated the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project since 1989 and created the Taylor diagram.
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.