The Participants

To the biography of Matt Edgeworth

To the biography of Michael Ellis

To the biography of Joyeeta Gupta

Reinhold Leinfelder is Professor for Geology at Freie Universität Berlin, with a focus on Anthropocene research, and Affiliate Professor at the Rachel Carson Center Munich (RCC), through which he is curating the joint RCC–Deutsches Museum exhibition Welcome to the Anthropocene (starting Dec 2014). Since Sept 2014, he has been Director of Haus der Zukunft Berlin, a new communication space on the world of tomorrow.

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, where she recently moved after 15 years as Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Geosciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Oreskes’ research focuses on the earth and environmental sciences, with a particular interest in understanding scientific consensus and dissent.

Jürgen Renn is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science leading the department Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge. In addition, he teaches at Berlin’s Humboldt-Universität and Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include the long-term development of systems of knowledge, the intercultural exchange of knowledge, and the transformation processes of structures of knowledge and their social conditions.

Andrew C. Revkin is a science and environmental writer. A reporter for the New York Times from 1995–2009, he currently writes the Dot Earth environmental blog for The Times’ Opinion Pages. Revkin is also Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies at Pace University, New York, and a member of the Future Earth Interim Engagement Committee.

Daniel D. Richter is Professor of Soils at Duke University, and lead investigator of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory in South Carolina, where he and colleagues study biogeochemistry as a function of historic and contemporary land use and abuse. He is author of Understanding Soil Change (2007) and Director of the International Network of Long-Term Soil Experiments (LTSEs).

To the biography of Bernd M. Scherer

James P.M. Syvitski’s specialty is the global flux of water and sediment (river and ocean-borne) and its trends in the Anthropocene. He uses data from ground stations, orbital sensors, and modeling, combining all three into a re-analysis product. He is chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and connects with the social dimension through the International Human Dimensions Programme and now Future Earth.

To the biography of Colin Waters

To the biography of Mark Williams

To the biography of Jan Zalasiewicz