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Billie Lee Turner II
Billie Lee Turner II is an American geographer and human-environmental scientist at Arizona State University who helped establish land change science, studying deforestation in Mexico and Central America.
Bin Wang
Bin Wang is a climate scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, known for work on the Asian–Australian monsoon and ENSO.
Birger Rasmussen
Birger Rasmussen is an Australian geobiologist and sedimentary geologist, an adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia known for Nature papers on early life, eukaryotes, and iron formations.
Bjørn Helland-Hansen
Bjørn Helland-Hansen (1877–1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer, a founder of physical oceanography who directed the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen from 1917 to 1947.
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens, born 1966 in Augsburg, is an American-trained climate scientist directing the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, known for research on clouds and the DYAMOND project.
Boaz Luz
Boaz Luz is an Israeli earth scientist and emeritus professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who showed in 1999 that atmospheric oxygen isotopes measure biosphere productivity.
Bob Ewald Schutz
Bob Ewald Schutz (1940–2015) was an American space geodesist and University of Texas at Austin professor who co-founded the International Laser Ranging Service and led the GLAS instrument on NASA's ICESat mission.
Bonnie Brunkhorst
Bonnie Brunkhorst is a science education and geology education researcher, professor emerita at California State University, San Bernardino, and past president of the National Science Teachers Association.
Boris Sokolov (paleontologist)
Boris Sokolov, or Boris Sergeevich Sokolov (1914–2013), was a Russian paleontologist and stratigrapher who founded Precambrian paleontology and defined the Vendian system, winning the Lenin Prize.
Bradford H. Hager
Bradford H. Hager (B. H. Hager) is an American geophysicist, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences at MIT, known for work on mantle flow and the geoid.
Brent Dalrymple
G. Brent Dalrymple (born 1937) is an American geologist who built the geomagnetic polarity time scale and wrote the 1991 book The Age of the Earth.
Brett A. Bryan
Brett A. Bryan, also published as Brett Bryan, is an Australian environmental scientist and Deakin Distinguished Professor known for his land-system sustainability research at Deakin University.
Brian Atwater
Brian Atwater is an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who used coastal geology to prove the Cascadia subduction zone produces great earthquakes and tsunamis.
Brian Berkowitz
Brian Berkowitz is a hydrologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for showing that contaminant transport in geological media is often non-Fickian.
Brian Ebel
Brian Ebel is an American research hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Lakewood, Colorado, who studies how wildfire and other disturbances change water availability and hazards.
Brian Hoskins
Sir Brian Hoskins, born 1945, is a British meteorologist and Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, known for work on potential vorticity, storm-tracks, and the Hadley Cell.
Brian J. Soden
Brian J. Soden is an American atmospheric scientist and professor at the University of Miami who uses satellite observations and climate models to study water vapor feedback and hurricanes.
Brian Kennett
Brian L. N. Kennett is an Australian seismologist, Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, best known for the IASP91 and AK135 reference Earth models used worldwide.
Brian McDonald (atmospheric scientist)
Brian McDonald is an American atmospheric scientist at NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, known for finding that volatile chemical products are now the largest petrochemical source of urban emissions.
Bridget R. Scanlon
Bridget R. Scanlon is an Irish-born hydrogeologist who leads the Sustainable Water Resources Program at the University of Texas at Austin, using GRACE satellite data to quantify groundwater depletion.
Bridget S. Wade
Bridget S. Wade is a micropalaeontologist who has been Professor of Micropalaeontology at University College London since 2013, studying planktonic foraminifera to calibrate the geological timescale.
Bruce Bolt
Bruce Bolt (1930–2005) was an Australian-born American seismologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1963 to 1993, and a founder of engineering seismology.
Bruno Sander
Bruno Sander (1884–1979) was an Austrian geologist and professor at Innsbruck who founded petrofabric analysis, the science of rock fabrics, with his 1930 textbook Gefügekunde der Gesteine.
Burke Minsley
Burke J. Minsley is an American research geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado, who maps groundwater and permafrost with airborne electromagnetic surveys and received a 2012 PECASE award.
C. Gordon Little
C. Gordon Little (1924–2017) was a British-born, Cambridge-educated American atmospheric scientist who championed remote sensing, founded and directed NOAA's Wave Propagation Laboratory in Boulder, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.
C. Page Chamberlain
C. Page Chamberlain is an American isotope geochemist and paleoclimatologist, a Stanford professor since 2001 known for using oxygen and hydrogen isotopes to reconstruct past climates and mountain elevations.
C. Vance Haynes
C. Vance Haynes, full name Caleb Vance Haynes Jr., born 1928, is an American geoarchaeologist and University of Arizona professor known for radiocarbon dating the Clovis culture.
Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg
Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg (1813–1899) was a German chemist and mineralogist who spent his career in Berlin, wrote the Handbuch der Mineralchemie, and had the mineral rammelsbergite named for him.
Carl H. Savit
Carl H. Savit was an American exploration geophysicist at Western Geophysical who held 40 US patents and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Carl Owen Dunbar
Carl Owen Dunbar (1891–1979) was an American paleontologist who taught at Yale from 1920 to 1959, specializing in fusulinids and brachiopods and directing the Peabody Museum.