Earth Scientists and Sustainable Development: Geocomputing, New Technologies, and the Humanities by Sebastiano Trevisani, Pietro Daniel Omodeo

“…This opinion paper discusses some of the challenges and opportunities that earth scientists face today in connection with environmental problems. …”
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Machine learning and tectonic setting determination: Bridging the gap between Earth scientists and data scientists by Pratchaya Takaew, Jianhong Cecilia Xia, Luc S. Doucet

“…We also identify research gaps and propose potential directions for the application of supervised machine learning to tectonic discrimination research, aimed at closing the divide between earth scientists and data scientists.…”
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Consensus revisited: quantifying scientific agreement on climate change and climate expertise among Earth scientists 10 years later by Krista F Myers, Peter T Doran, John Cook, John E Kotcher, Teresa A Myers

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Tackling AMR: A Call for a(n Even) More Integrated and Transdisciplinary Approach between Planetary Health and Earth Scientists by Jennifer Cole, Adam Eskdale, Jonathan D. Paul

“…Our example—of climate conditions’ impact on livestock health in Karnataka, India—clearly evidences the benefit of integrating earth scientists into planetary health research.…”
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PODPAC: open-source Python software for enabling harmonized, plug-and-play processing of disparate earth observation data sets and seamless transition onto the serverless cloud by earth scientists by Ueckermann, Mattheus P, Bieszczad, Jerry, Entekhabi, Dara, Shapiro, Marc L, Callendar, David R, Sullivan, David, Milloy, Jeffrey

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The Scientific Miracle of the Quran in Expressing the Phenomenon of Water Penetration Deep into the Earth by Abazar Vahdat Azad, Farzaneh Rohani Mashhadi

“…Allah Almighty has spoken in three verses from the Quran and in the context of the threat of the fall of the earth's waters into ways that can not be recovered. Earth scientist studies in recent years have shown that this threat of the Lord is a scientifically quite probable phenomenon, and these verses refer to scientific phenomena not only in the time of the fall of the Quran, which, until many years ago, man was not aware of this phenomenon. …”
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Earth system science applications of next-generation SEM-EDS automated mineral mapping by Shujun Han, Shujun Han, Stefan C. Lӧhr, Stefan C. Lӧhr, April N. Abbott, Andre Baldermann, Juraj Farkaš, William McMahon, Kitty L. Milliken, Mehrnoush Rafiei, Cassandra Wheeler, Michael Owen

“…Petrographic analysis informed by Scanning Electron Microscope - Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) mineral mapping can reveal the mineral identity, morphology and petrological context of each imaged grain, making it a valuable tool in the Earth Scientist’s analytical arsenal. Recent technological developments, including quantitative deconvolution of mixed-phase spectra (producing “mixels”), now allow rapid quantitative SEM-EDS-based analysis of a broad range of sedimentary rocks, including the previously troublesome fine-grained lithologies that comprise most of the sedimentary record. …”
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Against steady state by Garzanti Eduardo, Sternai Pietro

“…The present contribution is meant as an epistemological note of caution − from Earth scientists to Earth scientists − aimed at discouraging the use of theoretical models as true evidence instead of terms of comparison.…”
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Geocomputing, New Technologies and Historical Analysis: Tools for a Changing Planet by Sebastiano Trevisani

“…Modern Earth Scientists need also to interact with other disciplines, apparently far from the Earth Sciences and Engineering. …”
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Summary of Physical Properties Measured at Several Boreholes Penetrating through the Chelungpu Fault in Central Taiwan by Jeen-Hwa Wang

“…It is not convenient for the earth scientists to take advantage of those results. Hence, those results are compiled and described in this paper. …”
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Meta-learning to address diverse Earth observation problems across resolutions by Marc Rußwurm, Sherrie Wang, Benjamin Kellenberger, Ribana Roscher, Devis Tuia

“…Abstract Earth scientists study a variety of problems with remote sensing data, but they most often consider them in isolation from each other, which limits information flows across disciplines. …”
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Bacterial and Fungal-Mineral Interactions and their Application in Bioremediation – A Review by Renjbar Muksy, Kamal Kolo, Shorish Mustafa Gorony

“…Geomicrobiology is an interdisciplinary field of research that studies the role of microorganisms during the geological process from the inception of the earth and their perspective on the future of the earth. Scientists focused on microbe mineral interactions in various processes such as bioweathering, transformation, and the formation of biominerals to better understand the role of microbes in geological processes. …”
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GEOMORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF JOVAN CVIJIĆ IN BULGARIA by Valentin Nikolov, Mariyana Nikolova

“…The geomorphologic studies of Jovan Cvijić in Bulgaria are crucial for many Earth scientists from the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Curbing Catastrophe: Communicating about Natural Hazards by Timothy H. Dixon

“…Spurred initially by Fukushima (Japan, 2011) and Katrina (New Orleans, 2005), I have concluded that three factors are key: the lack of communication between experts, public and policy makers, especially when to comes to scientific concepts; time lags; and the need to consider long-term economic consequences. Earth scientists often think in terms of decades, centuries and longer, but for most people, long time scales are pretty abstract. …”
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A Call for More Snow Sampling by Steven R. Fassnacht

“…This paper uses several examples of fine-resolution sampling to issue a call to snow hydrologists and other earth scientists to collect more data, or at least to thoroughly evaluate their sampling strategy for collecting ground-truth measurements. …”
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Mateo Tepe or Devils Tower: Native and Tourist Differences in Geosite Interpretations by Richard Stoffle, Kathleen Van Vlack, Heather H. Lim, Alannah Bell

“…It is visually dramatic due to its columns, which are understood by earth scientists as a wonder of geology but by Native people as the claw scratches of a spiritual bear. …”
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Enhanced U-Pb detrital zircon, Lu-Hf zircon, δ18O zircon, and Sm-Nd whole rock global databases by Stephen J. Puetz, Christopher J. Spencer, Kent C. Condie, Nick M. W. Roberts

“…Abstract High-quality global isotopic databases provide Earth scientists with robust means for developing and testing a variety of geological hypotheses. …”
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FRACTAL DIMENSIONING OF SAND GRAINS USING IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM by Suat AKBULUT

“…Engineers and earth scientists have successfully used the concept of fractal theory to better analyze the roughness of soil and/or rock particles, and how it affects the permeability, structure and distribution of pores in sedimentary rocks and their influence on strength. …”
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The rise of preprints in earth sciences [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Daniel Enrique Ibarra, Olivier Pourret

“…In this opinion article, we provide perspective on the three main options available for earth scientists, namely EarthArXiv, ESSOAr/ESS Open Archive and EGUsphere.…”
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A review on paleoenvironment suitability for hominid fossils and other early vertebrate faunas: a case from Pucangan and Kabuh Formations, Central and East Java, Indonesia by Johan Arif, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Rubiyanto Kapid

“… Abstract The northern part of the East Java Basin has become a focus of research by earth scientists, among others, because of the existence of hominid fossils and remains of other vertebrate taxa within the Quaternary sedimentary sequence. …”
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