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Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, born 1934, is a British geologist known for plate tectonics who served as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence.
Rosina M. Bierbaum
Rosina M. Bierbaum is an American ecologist and science policy expert who led national and international climate assessments and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Ross Taylor (earth scientist)
Stuart Ross Taylor (1925–2021) was a New Zealand-born geochemist and planetary scientist at the Australian National University who made the first chemical analysis of the first Apollo 11 lunar sample.
Rossman Irwin III
Rossman Philip Irwin III is an American planetary geologist at the Smithsonian's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies who studies Mars's ancient river valleys and crater lakes, chairing the center since 2019.
Rowan Sutton
Rowan Sutton is a climate scientist at the University of Reading and NCAS who studies Atlantic climate variability, decadal predictability, and climate risk, and became Director of the Met Office Hadley Centre (Climate Science) in 2024.
Roy Allan Freeze
R. Allan Freeze, born 1939, is a Canadian groundwater hydrologist and emeritus University of British Columbia professor who co-authored the standard 1979 textbook Groundwater with John Cherry.
Roy M. Harrison
Roy M. Harrison, also published as R. M. Harrison, is a British atmospheric chemist known for research on air pollution, holding an environmental health chair at the University of Birmingham since 1991.
Ruben Juanes
Ruben Juanes (Rubén Juanes) is a computational geoscientist and MIT professor who studies multiphase flow in porous media, applied to carbon sequestration and induced earthquakes.
Ruby Leung
Ruby Leung, born Lai-yung Leung, is an American climate scientist and Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who leads the Department of Energy's E3SM climate model.
Rudolf Trümpy
Rudolf Trümpy (1921–2009) was a Swiss geologist, professor at ETH Zürich from 1953 to 1986, whose 1960 paleotectonic synthesis reshaped how geologists understand the Alps.
Russ E. Davis
Russ E. Davis (1941–2022) was an American physical oceanographer and engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who studied internal waves and invented autonomous ocean-observing instruments.
S. A. Bowhill
S. A. Bowhill, born Sidney Allan Bowhill, was a British-born American physicist who studied the ionosphere and led the Aeronomy Laboratory at the University of Illinois.
S. George Philander
S. George Philander, born 1942 in South Africa, is an American oceanographer and Princeton professor best known for advancing understanding of El Niño and coining the term La Niña.
Sakuhei Fujiwhara
Sakuhei Fujiwhara, also romanized Fujiwara, was a Japanese meteorologist who directed the Central Meteorological Observatory from 1941 to 1947 and described how two nearby cyclones rotate about a common center, the Fujiwhara effect.
Sally M. Benson
Sally M. Benson is an American energy scientist at Stanford who studies underground carbon dioxide storage and served at the White House from 2021 to 2023.
Sally Pusede
Sally Pusede is an American atmospheric chemist at the University of Virginia, a 2025 PECASE recipient known for using satellite data to measure neighborhood-level air pollution inequality.
Samuel A. Bowring
Samuel A. Bowring (1953–2019) was an American geologist and isotope geochronologist, the Robert R. Shrock Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for uranium-lead zircon dating, work on the Cambrian explosion, and the EARTHTIME initiative.
Samuel Epstein (geochemist)
Samuel Epstein (1919–2001) was a Polish-born Canadian-American geochemist who spent his career at Caltech and pioneered stable isotope studies of Earth, the Moon, and meteorites.
Samuel Franklin Emmons
Samuel Franklin Emmons (1841–1911) was an American economic geologist and founding USGS geologist whose 1886 study of Colorado's Leadville mining district became a model for describing ore deposits.
Samuel L. Penfield
Samuel L. Penfield (1856–1906) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer, professor of mineralogy at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Sang‐Heon Shim
Sang-Heon Shim is a South Korean-born American geophysicist and professor at Arizona State University who studies Earth and planetary materials at extreme pressures and temperatures.
Sarah D. Brooks
Sarah D. Brooks is an American atmospheric scientist and professor at Texas A&M University who studies how aerosol particles influence cloud formation and ice nucleation in clouds.
Sarah Minson
Sarah Minson is an American research geophysicist at the USGS Earthquake Science Center in California who studies earthquake sources, early warning, and seafloor geodesy, and won a 2014 PECASE.
Satish C. B. Myneni
Satish C. B. Myneni is an environmental geochemist and professor of geosciences at Princeton University, known for discovering naturally formed chlorinated hydrocarbons in decaying plant material.
Satoshi Ide
Satoshi Ide (井出 哲) is a Japanese seismologist and University of Tokyo professor known for the 2007 Nature scaling law that unified slow earthquake phenomena.
Scot Martin
Scot T. Martin is an American atmospheric chemist who received a 1998 Presidential Early Career Award at UNC Chapel Hill and has been a Harvard professor since 2000.
Scott A. Mabury
Scott A. Mabury, also published as Scott Mabury, is a Canadian environmental chemist at the University of Toronto known for tracing fluorinated "forever chemicals" in the Canadian Arctic.
Scott Fendorf
Scott Fendorf is an environmental chemist and Terry Huffington Professor at Stanford University whose fieldwork in South and Southeast Asia explained how arsenic enters groundwater.
Scott J. Lehman
Scott J. Lehman is an American paleoclimatologist and paleoceanographer, Fellow Emeritus and Director Emeritus of NSRL at INSTAAR, University of Colorado Boulder, known for radiocarbon tracing of CO2 emissions.
Scott Jasechko
Scott Jasechko is a Canadian-born hydrologist and professor of water resources at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School, known for measurement-based studies of global groundwater decline.