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Kenneth Pye
Kenneth Pye, born 1956, is a British sedimentologist and coastal geomorphologist known for work on aeolian dust, sand dunes, and loess, and for the GRADISTAT grain-size statistics package.
Kenneth S. Johnson
Kenneth S. Johnson is a chemical oceanographer and Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, known for nitrate and pH sensors deployed on autonomous profiling floats.
Kenneth W. Bruland
Kenneth W. Bruland is an American chemical oceanographer at UC Santa Cruz known for clean trace-metal sampling techniques and work showing iron limits phytoplankton growth.
Kerry Emanuel
Kerry Emanuel, born 1955, is an American climate scientist and Professor Emeritus at MIT, the first to predict that hurricanes would intensify as the climate warms.
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 E. Trenberth
Kevin E. Trenberth, born 1944 in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a climate scientist and Distinguished Scholar at NCAR known for work on Earth's energy budget and ocean heat content.
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.
Kevin R. Arrigo
Kevin R. Arrigo is a biological oceanographer who leads Stanford's Ocean Biogeochemistry Lab and reported in 2020 that Arctic Ocean primary production rose 57 percent between 1998 and 2018.
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi is an energy-systems and integrated assessment modeler who directs the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program at IIASA and coordinated the RCPs and SSPs.
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.
Kirk Bryan (oceanographer)
Kirk Bryan is an oceanographer who led ocean modeling at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and co-created the first coupled atmosphere–ocean climate model with Syukuro Manabe in 1969.
Klaus Hasselmann
Klaus Hasselmann, born 1931 in Hamburg, is a German physicist and oceanographer who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for physical modeling of Earth's climate.
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek is an ecological economist and environmental scientist who studies how household consumption drives environmental impacts, and is a professor at the University of Groningen.
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.
Kristin Poinar
Kristin Poinar is an American glaciologist at the University at Buffalo who models meltwater flow through the Greenland Ice Sheet, combining modeling, fieldwork, and deep learning.
Kristina B. Katsaros
Kristina B. Katsaros is a Swedish-born atmospheric scientist known for air-sea interaction research and satellite microwave remote sensing of cyclones, directing NOAA's AOML from 1997 to 2003.
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.
L.E. Borgman
L.E. Borgman (Leon E. Borgman, 1928–2007) was an American statistical oceanographer at the University of Wyoming, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
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.