Fellows of the American Geophysical Union

Professor Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006) was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period.

Kerry E. Sieh is an American geologist and seismologist.

Lawrence Mysak, CM FRSC (born January 1940 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian applied mathematician, working primarily on physical oceanography, and climate research, particularly arctic and palaeoclimate research.

Rafael Luis Bras (born 1950) is a Puerto Rican civil engineer best known for his contributions in soil-vegetation-atmosphere system modeling.

Walter Clay Lowdermilk (July 1, 1888 – May 6, 1974) was a soil conservationist who worked in countries throughout the world to help protect and reclaim lands in order to better feed their population.

G. Brent Dalrymple (born May 9, 1937) is an American geologist, author of The Age of the Earth and Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies, and National Medal of Science winner.

Wallace Smith Broecker (born November 29, 1931 in Chicago) is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University.

Thomas Stocker (born 1959) is a Swiss climate scientist.

Robert Stephen John Sparks, FRS, CBE (born 15 May 1949), is Chaning Wills Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.

Roger A. Pielke, Sr.

Wolfgang "Wolf" Helmut Berger (born 5 October 1937, Erlangen) is a German-American oceanographer, geologist, micropaleontologist and emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

Herbert Eric Huppert (born 26 November 1943) FRS is an Australian-born geophysicist living in Britain.

Neil D. Opdyke is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Bruce William Hapke (born February 17, 1931) is a noted American planetary scientist.

John Robert Philip FRS (18 January 1927, Ballarat – 26 June 1999, Amsterdam) was an Australian soil physicist and hydrologist, internationally recognized for his contributions to the understanding of movement of water, energy and gases.

Owen Brian Toon is a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and is a fellow at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Paul G. Richards (born March 1943) is an English-born, American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of seismic wave link propagation and in methods to understand how the recorded shapes of seismic waves are affected by processes of diffraction, attenuation and scattering.

Zvi Ben-Avraham (born 16 November 1941) is an Israeli earth scientist, specializing in geophysics of the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea Transform.

Gerald Allen "Jerry" Meehl is a climate scientist who has been a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research since 2001.

Janne Blichert-Toft is a geochemist, specializing in the use of isotopes with applications in understanding planetary mantle-crust evolution, as well as the chemical composition of matter in the universe.

Richard Mead Goody (born 19 June 1921) is a British-American atmospheric physicist and emeritus professor of planetary physics at Harvard University.

Roger Everett Summons is Professor of Geobiology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Anthony Brian Watts FRS is a British marine geologist and geophysicist and Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences, at the University of Oxford.

David Edgar Cartwright FRS (21 October 1926 – 2 December 2015) was an oceanographer.

Eugenia Kalnay (born 1 October 1942) is an Argentine meteorologist and a Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States.

Jørgen Holmboe (November 8, 1902 – October 29, 1979) was a Norwegian-American meteorologist.

William Welch Kellogg (1917 – December 12, 2007) was an American meteorologist and climatologist.

Maureen E. Raymo is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist.

Marcia Kemper McNutt (born February 19, 1952) is an American geophysicist who is president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Mary Lou Zoback (née Chetlain) (born July 5, 1952) is an American geophysicist who led the World Stress Map Project of the International Lithosphere Program.

Michael Robin Raupach (30 October 1950 – 10 February 2015) was an Australian climate scientist.

Meinrat O. Andreae, born in 1949 in Augsburg, is a German mineralogist.

Wilson was educated at Imperial College London where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology in 1977 followed by a PhD in 1981 for research on pyroclastic flows.

Cashman was educated at Middlebury College, Vermont where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology and Biology in 1976.

Richard John O'Connell (August 27, 1941 – April 2, 2015) was an American geophysicist working on the internal dynamics of the Earth and how they evolved over time and are observed at the surface.

William F. Ruddiman is a palaeoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia.

Syun-Ichi Akasofu (赤祖父 俊一 Akasofu Shun'ichi, born December 4, 1930, Saku, Nagano, Japan) is the founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), serving in that position from the center's establishment in 1998 until January 2007.

Inez Fung (born April 11, 1949) is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of California, Berkeley jointly appointed in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management.

Edmond was born on April 27, 1943, in Glasgow, Scotland, and was educated at the University of Glasgow (BSc degree, 1965) and the University of California, San Diego, where he received his PhD in 1970 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Thomas H. (Tom) Heaton is an American seismologist, known for his influential contributions in earthquake source physics and earthquake early warning.

Peter Arthur Fox is a data science and Semantic eScience researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States.

François Naftali Frenkiel (Warsaw, 19 September 1910 – Rockville, Maryland, 9 July 1986) was a physicist and one of the founders of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) journal Physics of Fluids in 1958.

Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao (born June 18, 1941) is an eminent American geologist and Staff Scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

Stephen E. Schwartz (born 1941) is an atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Stephen E. "Steve" Calvert, PhD, FRSC (born December 30, 1935) is a Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia.

Steven Jeffrey Ostro (March 9, 1946 – December 15, 2008) was an American scientist specializing in radar astronomy.

Violet Rosemary Strachan Hutton (22 October 1925 – 1 April 2004), known to her peers as Rosemary, was a British geophysicist and pioneer of magnetotellurics.

William L. "Bill" Chameides (born November 21, 1949 in New York City) is an American atmospheric scientist who was the dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment from 2007 until July 1, 2014.

George Tilton (June 3, 1923 – October 12, 2010) was an American geochemist who specialized in uranium-lead geochronology.

Joseph Pedlosky (born April 7, 1938) is an American physical oceanographer.

Petr Vaníček (born 1935 in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, today in Czech Republic) is a Czech Canadian geodesist and theoretical geophysicist who has made important breakthroughs in theory of spectral analysis and geoid computation.

Philip Russel Christensen is a geologist whose research interests focus on the composition, physical properties, processes, and morphology of planetary surfaces, with an emphasis on Mars and the Earth.

Stefan Rahmstorf (born 22 February 1960) is a German oceanographer and climatologist.

Venkatachalam Ramaswamy (V. "Ram" Ramaswamy) is the Director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), studying climate modeling and climate change.

Theodore Gordon Shepherd FRS (born 6 August 1958) is the Grantham Professor of Climate Science at the University of Reading.

Kenneth "Ken" Owen Buesseler (born 1959) is an American marine radiochemist.

Anny Cazenave (French pronunciation: [ani kaznav] ) is a French space geodesist and one of the pioneers in satellite altimetry.

Charles David Keeling (April 20, 1928 – June 20, 2005) was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory first alerted the world to the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and global warming.

Professor Henry "Harry" Elderfield FRS (25 April 1943 – 19 April 2016), was Professor of Ocean Chemistry and Palaeochemistry at the Godwin Laboratory in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Seyed Majid Hassanizadeh (born 1952) is a professor of hydrogeology at Utrecht University, where he heads the Hydrogeology group at the Faculty of Geosciences.

Malcolm K. Hughes is a meso-climatologist and Regents' Professor of Dendrochronology in the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona.

Ronald Greeley (August 25, 1939 – October 27, 2011) was a Regents’ Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU), the Director of the NASA-ASU Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF), and Principal Investigator of the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory at NASA-Ames Research Center.

Ronald E. Cohen (born 5 March 1957) is an American scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Geophysical Laboratory.

Leon Knopoff (July 1, 1925 – January 20, 2011) was a geophysicist and musicologist.

Juan G. Roederer is a professor of physics emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).

Thomas Dunne (born April 21, 1943) is a British geomorphologist and hydrologist who is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Department of Earth Science since 1995.

Jerome Namias (19 March 1910 – 10 February 1997) was an American meteorologist, whose research included El Niño.

Charles B. Moore, Jr.

Donald L. Carpenter is a Space Scientist, Professor (Research) Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University.

Louis Byrne Slichter (May 19, 1896 – March 25, 1978) was an American physicist and geophysicist who directed the Institute of Geophysics at UCLA.

Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Tamil: வீரபத்ரன் இராமநாதன்) is Victor Alderson Professor of Applied Ocean Sciences and director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

Lynne Talley (born May 18, 1954) is an American physical oceanographer.

Martin Arthur Pomerantz (December 17, 1916 – October 26, 2008) was an American physicist who served as Director of the Bartol Research Institute and who had been a leader in developing Antarctic astronomy.

Alan Robock (born 1949) is an American climatologist.

Alexandra Navrotsky is a physical chemist in the field of nanogeoscience.

C. (Carl) Allin Cornell (September 19, 1938 – December 14, 2007) was a civil engineer who made important contributions to reliability theory and earthquake engineering and, along with Dr.

Geoffrey David Price FGS (born 12 January 1956) has been Vice-Provost (Research) of UCL (University College London) since 2007 and Professor of Mineral Physics in the UCL Department of Earth Sciences since 1991.

Harry Leonard Bryden, FRS (born 9 July 1946) is an American physical oceanographer, professor at University of Southampton, and staff at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

J. Lamar (Joe) Worzel (February 21, 1919 – December 26, 2008), American geophysicist known for his important contributions to underwater acoustics, underwater photography, and gravity measurements at sea.

James Anthony Jackson CBE FRS (b. 12 December 1954) is Professor of Active Tectonics and Head of Bullard Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University.

Jasper A. Vrugt (born 1976) is a Dutch scientist/engineer/applied mathematician known for his work in the earth sciences: surface hydrology, soil physics, hydrogeophysics, hydrometeorology, and geophysics.