LESSON 3.1 What is Earth System Science?
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ESS seeks to?
It seeks to understand the past, current, and future state of our planet.
Vladimir Vernadsky
a Russian mineralogist and geochemist, who popularized the term noosphere or the sphere of human consciousness and reason.
Alexander Von Humboldt
a 19th-century German geographer and naturalist
James Hutton
He conceptualized the process of weathering
James Hutton
he introduced the concept of uniformitarianism
uniformitarianism
the present is the key to the past
James Lovelock
proposed the Gaia hypothesis or Gaia principle
Gaia hypothesis or Gaia principle
a postulate that Earth works as a self-regulating system
Lynn Margulis
further developed Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis
