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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 E. Borgman
Leon E. Borgman (1928–2007) was an American statistical oceanographer and University of Wyoming professor, called the father of modern ocean-wave statistical analysis and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Leon Emry Borgman
Leon Emry Borgman (1928–2007) was an American statistical oceanographer called the father of modern ocean-wave statistical analysis, a University of Wyoming professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
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 Brekhovskikh
Leonid Brekhovskikh (1917–2005) was a Soviet and Russian acoustical oceanographer who discovered the underwater sound channel in 1946 and wrote Waves in Layered Media, the standard reference on wave propagation in layered media.
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.
Linnea M. Avallone
Linnea M. Avallone is an American atmospheric chemist known for airborne instruments measuring trace gases and cirrus clouds, now NSF Chief Officer for Research Facilities.
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 Chao-Han
Liu Chao-Han (刘兆汉) is a Taiwanese space and radio scientist who pioneered GPS radio occultation for weather monitoring and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
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.
Lloyd S. Cluff
Lloyd S. Cluff (died 2019) was an American earthquake geologist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978, who led earthquake risk management at PG&E.
Lonnie G. Thompson
Lonnie G. Thompson is an American paleoclimatologist at The Ohio State University who founded tropical alpine paleoclimatology, recovering ice cores from Kilimanjaro, the Andes, and the Himalayas, and won the National Medal of Science in 2007.
Lorenzo M. Polvani
Lorenzo M. Polvani is an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University who studies the stratosphere, ozone depletion's climate effects, and planetary atmospheres, and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
Louis A Codispoti
Louis A. Codispoti, born 1940 in Brooklyn, is an American chemical oceanographer known for work on the marine nitrogen cycle and denitrification in oxygen minimum zones.
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz, born Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807–1873), was a Swiss-born American naturalist who championed the ice age theory and founded Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1859.
Louis B. Slichter
Louis B. Slichter was an American geophysicist at MIT and UCLA who pioneered the study of inverse problems, earth tides, and the earth's free oscillations.
Louis Dollo
Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo (1857–1931) was a Belgian paleontologist who reconstructed the Bernissart Iguanodon skeletons, pioneered paleobiology, and formulated Dollo's Law of evolutionary irreversibility.
Louis François de Pourtalès
Louis François de Pourtalès (1824–1880) was a Swiss-born American naturalist who pioneered deep-sea dredging on the US Coast Survey, showing animal life thrives at great depths.
Louis V. Pirsson
Louis V. Pirsson was an American geologist and petrologist, professor at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, and co-developer of the quantitative classification of igneous rocks published in 1902 and 1903.
Lowell Stott
Lowell Stott is a paleoceanographer and climate scientist, professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California since 1989, known for deep-sea studies of past climate change.
Luigi Fantini
Luigi Fantini (1895–1978) was an Italian archivist and speleologist who founded the Gruppo Speleologico Bolognese, explored the gypsum caves of the Bolognese Apennines, and left about 1,300 photographic plates.
Luna Leopold
Luna Leopold (1915–2006) was an American hydrologist and geomorphologist, son of Aldo Leopold, who led the USGS Water Resources Division, taught at Berkeley, and turned river science quantitative.