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Robert M. Garrels

Robert M. Garrels (1916–1988) was an American geochemist who applied chemical thermodynamics to low-temperature geology, known for Eh–pH diagrams, seawater modeling, and books like Solutions, Minerals, and Equilibria.

Robert M. Hazen

Robert M. Hazen is an American mineralogist and geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, known for the mineral evolution hypothesis and leading the Deep Carbon Observatory.

Robert M. Schoch

Robert M. Schoch is an American geologist and Boston University faculty member since 1984, known for redating the Great Sphinx of Giza and proposing that solar outbursts ended the last ice age.

Robert M. Sneider

Robert M. Sneider (1929–2005) was an American petroleum reservoir geologist in Houston, Texas, founder of Robert M. Sneider Exploration Inc., elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Robert M. White

Robert M. White (Robert Mayer White, 1923–2015) was an American meteorologist who led the Weather Bureau, ESSA, and NOAA, becoming NOAA's first administrator in 1970.

Robert P. Sharp

Robert P. Sharp (1911–2004) was an American geomorphologist at Caltech, a leading authority on Earth and Mars surfaces who received the National Medal of Science in 1989.

Robert Paul Dziak

Robert Paul Dziak is an American marine geophysicist at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Newport, Oregon, known for monitoring undersea earthquakes and whale calls with hydrophones.

Robert R. Berg

Robert R. Berg, also known as Robert Raymond Berg, was an American petroleum geologist and Texas A&M professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

Robert S. Anderson

Robert S. Anderson (born 1952) is an American geomorphologist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for models of wind-blown sediment transport and glacial erosion.

Robert S. White

Robert S. White is a British geophysicist, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the University of Cambridge, known for work on oceanic crust formation and melt beneath Icelandic volcanoes.

Robert Simpson Woodward

Robert Simpson Woodward was an American geophysicist and geodesist who measured the Earth's figure and gravity field, then led the Carnegie Institution from 1904 to 1920.

Robert Sinclair Dietz

Robert Sinclair Dietz (1914–1995) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who proposed seafloor spreading in a 1961 Nature paper, coined the term, and later studied meteorite impact structures.

Robert T. Watson

Robert T. Watson, born 1948, is a British atmospheric chemist who built the scientific assessments behind the Montreal Protocol and chaired the IPCC from 1997 to 2002.

Robert Thomas (glaciologist)

Robert H. (Bob) Thomas (1937–2015) was a British-born glaciologist who coined "ice-shelf buttressing" and led NASA's PARCA program, producing the first accurate mass-balance assessment of a polar ice sheet.

Roberta L. Rudnick

Roberta L. Rudnick is a geochemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for the 1995 paper "Making continental crust" and for developing lithium isotope geochemistry.

Robin E. Bell

Robin E. Bell, also known as Robin Bell, is an American polar geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory known for work on subglacial lakes and Antarctic ice streams.

Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet (1792–1871), was a Scottish geologist who established the Silurian, Devonian, and Permian systems and directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Rodey Batiza

Rodey Batiza is a marine geologist and geophysicist whose 1986 Nature papers established that subtle deviations along the East Pacific Rise are real petrological and tectonic boundaries.

Rodney J. Weber

Rodney J. Weber, also published as R. J. Weber, is a professor at Georgia Tech who studies atmospheric aerosols affecting climate, air quality, and health, and developed the Particle-Into-Liquid Sampler.

Roger Benson

Roger Benson, also known as Roger B. J. Benson, is a vertebrate paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Roger Bilham

Roger Bilham is a geophysicist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for GPS measurements of Himalayan convergence and warnings that great Himalayan earthquakes may be overdue.

Roger Buick

Roger Buick is a paleontologist and Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, known for work on early life and the young atmosphere.

Roger G. Burns

Roger G. Burns (1937–1994) was a New Zealand-born mineralogist and geochemist at MIT, a founder of mineral spectroscopy known for crystal field theory and Mars research.

Roger Revelle

Roger Revelle (1909–1991) was an American oceanographer who directed Scripps Institution of Oceanography, drove the founding of UC San Diego, and made the early case for rising atmospheric CO2.

Roger Summons

Roger E. Summons is an Australian-born biogeochemist and geobiologist, Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for reading molecular fossils in ancient rocks to reconstruct early life.

Roland Bürgmann

Roland Bürgmann is a geophysicist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for pioneering InSAR and GPS geodesy to measure fault creep, earthquakes, and volcanoes.

Rollin Thomas Chamberlin

Rollin Thomas Chamberlin (1881–1948) was an American geologist, professor at the University of Chicago, known for the rock-dust method of preventing coal-dust explosions and studies of glacier motion.

Ronald C. Cohen

Ronald C. Cohen is an American atmospheric chemist at UC Berkeley known for research on nitrogen oxides and for leading the BEACO2N urban greenhouse-gas sensor network.

Ronald G. Prinn

Ronald G. Prinn is an atmospheric scientist at MIT, where he is TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science and has led the AGAGE greenhouse gas monitoring network since 1978.

Ronald J. Stouffer

Ronald J. Stouffer is an American climate modeler who spent 38 years at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, known for coupled climate models and simulations of abrupt Atlantic circulation change.