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Cin-Ty Lee
Cin-Ty A. Lee (李忻地) is a petrologist and geochemist who studies how continents form and arc magmas evolve; he holds the Wiess Professorship of Geology at Rice University.
Clair C. Patterson
Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist at Caltech who determined the Earth's age, about 4.55 billion years, and showed industrial lead had contaminated the modern environment.
Claire L. Parkinson
Claire L. Parkinson is an American climatologist and sea ice specialist at NASA Goddard who led the Aqua satellite mission and documented Arctic sea ice decline.
Clara Deser
Clara Deser is an American climate scientist and Senior Scientist at NSF NCAR in Boulder, Colorado, known for Pacific decadal variability and pioneering climate model large ensembles.
Clarence Allen (seismologist)
Clarence Roderic Allen (1925–2021) was an American seismologist and geologist who spent his career at Caltech, pioneered seismotectonics, and helped shape California earthquake fault zoning policy.
Clarence Dutton
Clarence Dutton (1841–1912) was an American geologist and career army officer who coined the concept of isostasy, wrote a classic Grand Canyon monograph, and reported on the 1886 Charleston earthquake.
Clarence King
Clarence King (1842–1901) was an American geologist who directed the Fortieth Parallel Survey of the American West and served as the first Director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881.
Claude F. Boutron
Claude F. Boutron, also known as Claude Boutron, is a French glaciochemist at Grenoble known for measuring lead and other trace metals in polar snow and ice.
Claude Frankignoul
Claude Frankignoul is a French oceanographer and emeritus professor at Sorbonne Université in Paris, known for applying Hasselmann's stochastic climate model to sea surface temperature data.
Claude Hillaire‐Marcel
Claude Hillaire-Marcel is a Quaternary geoscientist and isotope paleoceanographer at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he founded the Geotop research center in 1979.
Claude J. Allègre
Claude J. Allègre, also cited as C.J. Allègre (1937–2025), was a French geochemist who dated the Earth and Moon by isotopes and won the 1986 Crafoord Prize.
Claude Jaupart
Claude Jaupart, born 1953, is a French geophysicist and volcanologist at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, known for heat flow studies of continents.
Claude Lorius
Claude Lorius (1932–2023) was a French glaciologist and climatologist who founded modern ice-core paleoclimatology; his Vostok Antarctic ice core showed carbon dioxide and temperature moving together over 160,000 years.
Cleveland Abbe
Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916) was an American meteorologist and astronomer who built the first US daily weather forecasts from telegraph reports and campaigned for standard time zones.
Colin O’Dowd
Colin O'Dowd (Colin D. O'Dowd) is an atmospheric physicist and professor at the University of Galway known for showing that iodine from marine algae forms ocean aerosols.
Columbus O'Donnell Iselin
Columbus O'Donnell Iselin was an American physical oceanographer who directed the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and gave the first systematic picture of the Gulf Stream.
Compton J. Tucker
Compton J. Tucker, also published as C. J. Tucker, is an American Earth scientist who pioneered satellite monitoring of global vegetation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Corey Potvin
Corey K. Potvin is an American research meteorologist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, who works on probabilistic tornado warnings and storm-scale ensemble prediction.
Crayton J. Yapp
Crayton J. Yapp was an American isotope geochemist at Southern Methodist University who reconstructed ancient climates and atmospheric CO2 from tree cellulose and soil goethite.
Curtis Deutsch
Curtis Deutsch is an American climate and ocean scientist, professor of geosciences at Princeton University, known for linking ocean warming and oxygen loss to marine habitats and past mass extinctions.
Curtis Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock is an American remote sensing scientist and professor at Boston University, known for forest monitoring, the Fmask cloud detection algorithm, and the 2016 Pecora Award.
Cynthia E. Rosenzweig
Cynthia E. Rosenzweig is an American climate scientist at NASA GISS who pioneered the study of climate impacts on agriculture and won the 2022 World Food Prize.
Dan McKenzie
Dan McKenzie, born 1942, is a British geophysicist at the University of Cambridge, co-founder of plate tectonics whose 1978 sedimentary basin model won the Crafoord Prize.
Dani Or
Dani Or is an Israeli-born soil and environmental physicist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 and known for modeling soil hydrology and microbial habitats.
Daniel B. Stephens
Daniel B. Stephens is an American hydrogeologist known for vadose zone hydrology, founder of the consulting firm DBS&A, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Daniel E. Giammar
Daniel E. Giammar is an American environmental engineer and aquatic chemist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for research on lead, arsenic, and uranium in water.
Daniel J. Cziczo
Daniel J. Cziczo is an American atmospheric chemist who studies how airborne particles form clouds, and has led Purdue University's Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences department since 2019.
Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob is the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at Harvard, known for atmospheric methane research and developing the GEOS-Chem model used worldwide.
Daniel Jean Stanley
Jean-Daniel Stanley, also published as Daniel Jean Stanley, was a French-born American sedimentologist and geological oceanographer at the Smithsonian Institution, known for his decades-long study of the Nile delta.
Daniel M. Tartakovsky
Daniel M. Tartakovsky is an applied mathematician and hydrologist, professor of energy science and engineering at Stanford since 2016, known for uncertainty quantification in subsurface flow.