science

1. CONTRIBUTIONS OF PERSONALITIES /
PEOPLE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF
THE EARTH SYSTEM

2. Earth System Science (ESS) is the study
of the earth as a system.

3.  The father of modern
geology, proposed
Uniformitarianism, which
implies that the present
geological processes are
the same as those in the
past.
James Hutton

4. Alexander von Humboldt
Laid the foundations
for Earth System
Science by his
holistic observations
of nature.

5. Vladimir Vernadsky
One of the founders of
geochemistry,
popularized the term
NOOSPHERE, which is
the sphere of human
consciousness.

6. James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis
Collaborated on the gaia hypothesis,
which postulates that the earth
works as a self-regulating system.

7. National Aeronautics
and Space
Administration
(NASA)
Studies components of
the earth system, their
linkages,
dependencies, and
fluxes.