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