LESSON 3.1 What is Earth System Science?

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SENIOR HIGHSCHOOL PRE FI TOPIC

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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