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Kate Marvel
Kate Marvel (Katherine D. Marvel) is an American climate scientist and science communicator known for work on cloud feedbacks, climate sensitivity, and detection of human influence on climate.
Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe, born 1972, is an atmospheric scientist, Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, and Texas Tech professor known for communicating climate science through shared values.
Katharine Mach
Katharine J. Mach is an American climate scientist known for research on climate change and armed conflict and on managed retreat, the planned movement of people out of hazardous places.
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.
Katsuko Saruhashi (猿橋勝子)
Katsuko Saruhashi (猿橋勝子) was a Japanese geochemist who traced nuclear fallout in seawater and was the first woman to earn a chemistry PhD from the University of Tokyo.
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 P. Shine
Keith P. Shine, also known as Keith Shine, is Emeritus Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at the University of Reading, known for identifying radiative forcing.
Keith R. Briffa
Keith R. Briffa, also known as Keith Briffa, was a British dendroclimatologist at the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, who used tree rings to reconstruct past summer temperatures.
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.
Ken C. Macdonald
Ken C. Macdonald is an American marine geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for mapping mid-ocean ridge segmentation and co-discovering black smoker vents.
Ken Caldeira
Ken Caldeira is an American climate and energy scientist known for work on ocean acidification, coral reef calcification, climate sensitivity, solar geoengineering, and the design of deeply decarbonized energy systems.
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler is an American marine radiochemist and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who studies radioactive elements in the ocean and led research on Fukushima's release into the Pacific.
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 Carslaw
Kenneth Carslaw is a British atmospheric scientist, Professor at the University of Leeds, known for the GLOMAP global aerosol model and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.
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.
Kenneth O. Emery
Kenneth O. Emery (1914–1998) was an American marine geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, known for mapping continental margins and showing that relative sea-level change varies by location.