List of women climate scientists and activists

Yuya din doli na ŋɔ nyɛla paɣaba ban nyɛ climate scientists and activists ni bɛ ni yi tiŋgbani shɛli na nim ni mi o zaŋ chaŋ o kpaŋmaŋ ni Climate taɣibu.

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Paɣaba nyɛla ban niŋ kpaŋmaŋ pam zaŋ chso climate change research ni di zalikpana n-ti pahi n-ti pahi dunia zaaa environmental issues malibu .  Ban nyɛ paɣa shɛba ban nyɛ scientists ni zali zaaniba. Paɣa shɛba ban niŋdi vihigu nyɛla ban niŋ kpaŋmaŋ pam zaŋ chaŋ yɛlitɔɣa muɣisiri malibu kamani ban be Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, bɛ nyɛla ninvuɣ shɛba ban zani n-ti binkpɛma taɣibu komitii International Council for Science (ICSU)ni US National Academy of Sciences. Bɛ nyɛla ninvuɣ shɛba ban tum tunshɛŋa din mali anfaani n-ti   international climate policy. Kamani , Christiana Figueres ŋun nyɛ Executive Secretary zaŋti  UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) n-ti pahi Irish zuɣulan Mary Robinson ŋun nyɛ UN Special Envoy on Climate Change. Susan Solomon  nyɛ chairman zaŋti climate science working group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment yuuni  2007. Yuuni 1990 saha la, paɣaba nyɛla ban niŋdi kpaŋmaŋ n-tiri Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

 Afghanistan 

 Zuhal Atmar, pioneering environmentalist who ran a recycling plant
 Faiza Darkhani (born 1992), environmentalist, climate change scholar, and women's rights activist

 Argentina 

 Inés Camilloni (born 1964), climatologist studying climate change in South America

 Australia 

 Nerilie Abram (born 1977), researcher in climate change and paleoclimatology
 Tracy Ainsworth, marine biologist working on coral reefs
 Lisa Alexander, international expert on heatwaves
 Julie Arblaster, climate change researcher, contributor to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 Sue Barrell, meteorologist active in climate monitoring and ocean-earth observations
 Kirsten Benkendorff (born 1973), marine scientist working on molluscs
 Wendy Bowman (born c.1934), environmental activist
 Wendy Craik (born 1949), scientist working for the Climate Change Authority
 Adriana Dutkiewicz, sedimentologist at the University of Sydney
 Ann Henderson-Sellers (1952-),  climate change risk evaluation
 Taryn Lane, renewable energy expert
 Judith Lean, Australian-American solar and climate scientist
 India Logan-Riley, Māori climate activist
 Janice Lough, climate scientist researching coral reefs
 Amanda Lynch, Professor at Brown University researching atmospheric and climate change science, and environmental policy and Indigenous knowledge
 Cara Augustenborg (1938–2017), Slovene-American artist and environmental activist
 Ann Henderson-Sellers (born 1952), earth systems scientist focusing on climatic impacts
 Jane McAdam (born 1974), legal expert on climate change and refugees
 Helen McGregor, geologist and climate change researcher, Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University
 Amanda McKenzie, commentator on climate change
 Jessica Melbourne-Thomas, marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller
 Sam Mostyn (born c.1964), businesswoman active in climate change
 Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick (born 1983), heatwave research
 Anjali Sharma (born 2004), child climate activist
 Kate Trinajstic, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
 Jo Vallentine (born 1946), anti-nuclear activist
 Carden Wallace, marine biologist and museum director, expert on corals
 Shemara Wikramanayake (born 1962), businesswoman striving for low carbon emissions and renewable energy production
 Penny Whetton (1958–2019), regional climate change projections for Australia
 Katherine Woodthorpe, executive involved in bushfire and natural hazards

 Belgium 

 Margaretha Guidone (born c.1956), activist campaigning against global warming

 Bolivia 

 Ximena Vélez Liendo (born 1976), biologist focusing on the ecology of the Andean bear

 Brazil 

 Rosaly Lopes (born 1957), geologist specializing in volcanology
 Antônia Melo (born 1949), environmentalist and human rights activist

 Cameroon 

 Sevidzem Ernestine Leikeki (born 1985), climate activist

 Canada 

 Eriel Deranger (born 1979), indigenous rights activist intent on climate action
 Marie-Josée Fortin (born 1958), spatial ecology researcher
 Natalya Gomez, climate-ice sheet-solid earth modeler, professor at McGill University
 Katharine Hayhoe (born 1972), atmospheric science, global climate models
 Nasrin Husseini, Afghan-born refugee, food activist working on improved productivity through breeding
 Naomi Klein (born 1970), author, filmmaker and environmental activist
 Melina Laboucan-Massimo, climate justice and Indigenous rights activist
 Corinne Le Quéré (born 1966), Royal Society research professor, University of East Anglia
 Deborah Martin-Downs, aquatic biologist, ecologist
 Line Rochefort, ecologist specializing in peatland restoration
 Marie Sanderson (1921–2010), geographer and climatologist

 Chad 

 Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, environmental activist and geographer

 Chile 

 Adriana Hoffmann (1940–2022), environmentalist involved in the sustainable management of Chilean forests
 Sara Larraín (born 1962), politician and environmental activist
 Veronica Vallejos (born c. 1967), marine biologist and Antarctic researcher

 China 

 Chai Jing (born 1976), journalist and environmental activist producing a documentary, later banned, on pollution and environmental policy
 Howey Ou (born c.2003), young activist inspired by Greta Thunberg

 Colombia 

 Xiomara Acevedo, climate change activist coordinating government policy
 Paola Arias, climate change researcher
 Martha Peralta Epieyú, politician and lawyer specializing in environmental law
 Aída Quilcué (fl 1990s), environmentalist and politician
 Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez (born 1981), marine biologist studying flat worms and stem cell regeneration

 Costa Rica 

 Christiana Figueres (born 1956), diplomat specializing in international climate change negotiations

 Denmark 

 Inger Andersen (born 1958), economist and environmentalist working with international organizations
 Lone Drøscher Nielsen (born 1984), wildlife conservationist active in Borneo
 Inge Lehmann (1888–1993), seismologist and geophysicist
 Signe Normand, biologist researching vegetation in the arctic tundra

 Dominican Republic 

 Idelisa Bonnelly (1931–2022), marine biologist who created first sanctuary in the North Atlantic for humpback whales

 Ecuador 

 Anita Rivas (born 1972), lawyer and conservationish

 Fiji 

 Kavita Naidu, lawyer working on international climate change law

 Finland 

 Hanna Kokko (born 1971), evolutionary ecologist

 France 

 Hélène Bergès (born 1966), director of the Plant Genomic Resources Center (CNRGV), plant geneticist investigating ocean-atmospheric coupling
 Pascale Braconnot, climate scientist
 Valérie Cabanes (born 1969), lawyer and environmentalist
 Anny Cazenave (born 1944), geodesist researching sea level rise caused by global warming
 Françoise Gasse (1942–2014), paleobiologist specializing in lacustrine sediments
 Amaelle Landais-Israël (born 1977), climatologist researching Greenland ice and the North Atlantic
 Marguerite Augusta Marie Löwenhielm, mycologist studying the effectiveness of American grapevine against harmful insect pest
 Valerie Masson-Delmotte, focus on paleoclimatology at the Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory (LSCE)
 Anaïs Orsi, climate scientist studying global warming through changes in polar ice
 Magali Reghezza-Zitt, geographer and co-director of the Centre de formation sur l'environnement et la société at the École normale supérieure. Her work focuses on the notions of risk and crisis, vulnerability and resilience, and adaptation, in the context of globalisation and environmental change. She is a menmber High Council on Climate and Chevalier Ordre national du Mérite.
 Catherine Ritz, Antarctic researcher working on ice sheets and rise in sea level
 Françoise Vimeux, climatologist, research director at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), works at the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE) and the Laboratoire HydroSciences Montpellier (HSM)

 Germany 

 Silvia Bender (born 1970), Green party politician
 Nancy Bertler, Antarctic researcher investigating climate history
 Lina Eichler (born 2002), climate activist
 Sabine Fuss, climate scientist focusing on sustainable resource management
 Ulrike Lohmann (born 1966), climate researcher focusing on aerosol particles in clouds
 Katrin Meissner, German and Australian physical oceanographer and climate scientist, director of the Climate Change Research Centre at University of New South Wales
 Friederike Otto (born 1982), German climatologist, associate director of the Environmental Change Institute
 Ricarda Winkelmann (born 1985), climatologist researching interdependencies between climate, land ice and the ocean
 Kirsten Zickfeld, climate physicist now based in Canada

 Ghana 

 Nana Klutse (born 1981), climate scientist

 Guatemala 

 Nicole Hernandez Hammer, Guatemalan-American climate scientist studying sea level rise

 Guinea-Bissau 

 Augusta Henriques (fl. 1991), conservationist

 Honduras 

 Berta Cáceres (1971–2016), environmental activist and indigenous leader

 Iceland 

 Sigríður Tómasdóttir (1871–1957), environmentalist active in saving the Gullfoss waterfalls from industrialization

 India 

 Sulochana Gadgil (born 1944), meteorologist studying monsoons
 Paramjit Khurana (born 1956), biologist specializing in plant biotechnology
 Sunita Narain (born 1961), environmentalist, clean energy advocate and political activist
 Medha Patkar (born 1964), politician, rights activist and environmentalist

 Indonesia 

 Yuyun Ismawati (born 1964), environmental engineering involved in safe waste management involved in protecting reefs from plastic waste pollution
 Mia Krisna Pratiwi (born 1996), environmental engineer
 Swietenia Puspa Lestari (born 1994), environmental engineer

 Ireland 

 Anna Kernahan, climate activist, founder of Fridays For Future Northern Ireland

 Cara Augustenborg (born 1978), environmental scientist, also has US citizenship
 Karin Dubsky (born 1954), German-born marine ecologist and environmental activist
 Tara Shine, environmental scientist, policy advisor and science communicator

 Italy 

 Simona Bordoni (born 1972), climatologist studying atmospheric dynamics in California
 Nicola Scafetta (born 1975), astronomer and climate scientist

 Kenya 

 Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), environmental activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner

 Laos 

 Niane Sivongxay, zoologist specializing in zooplankton and amphibians

 Madagascar 

 Marie Christina Kolo (born 1989), climate activist
 Julie Hanta Razafimanahaka, conservation biologist

 Marshall Islands 

 Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, poet and climate change activist
 Selina Leem, climate change activist and spoken word performer

 Mexico 

 María Elena Caso (1915–1991), biologist pioneering the study if starfish and other echinoderms
 Enriqueta Legorreta (1914–2010), two-time winner (2007 & 2019) of the Aguascalientes state prize for Environmental Merit
 Enriqueta Medellín (1948–1922), winner of Mexico's highest Ecological award, the Premio al Mérito Ecológico in 2012

 Netherlands 

 Elisabeth Gottschalk (1912–1989), investigated storm surges and river floods
 Saskia Ozinga (born 1960), environmental and social activist involved in forest conservation

 New Zealand 

 Rosemary Askin (born 1949), geologist, Antarctic researcher
 Helen Plume, ministerial climate change expert
 Gillian Wratt, (born 1954), botanist and Antarctic researcher

 Niger 

 Mariama Mamane, environmentalist focusing on the ecology of rivers

 Nigeria 

 Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe, geologist specializing in palynology and sedimentology
 Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi, environmental biochemist
 Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi, botanist and environmental archaeologist

 Norway 

 Ane Hansdatter Kismul (born 1980), politician and environmentalist
 Ingrid Skjoldvær (born 1993), environmentalist active in the Nature and Youth organization
 Gunhild Stordalen (born 1979), physician and environmental advocate, founder of a climate change foundation
 Ragnhild Sundby (1922–2006), zoologist involved in environmental issues

 Papua New Guinea 

 Mazzella Maniwavie (born 1987), mangrove conservationist and climate change activist

 Peru 

 Liz Chicaje (born 1962), rain forest conservationist

 Philippines 

 Joan Carling (born 1963), human rights activist and environmentalist
 Gemma Narisma (1972–2021), climate scientist focusing on assessment

 Poland 

 Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), paleobiologist, expeditions to the Gobi Desert
 Teresa Maryańska (1937–2019), paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs
 Elwira Żmudzka, climatologist

 Româniarights 

 Russia 

 Maria Klenova (1898–1976), pioneering Russian marine scientist
 Olga Zolina (born 1975), climatologist, modeling of extreme precipitation

 Rwanda 

 Rose Mukankomeje, politician and environmental activist addressing forest conservation

 South Africa 

 Frances Gamble (1949–1997), climatologist and speleologist

 South Korea 

 June-Yi Lee, atmospheric scientist investigating future climate scenarios

 Spain 

 Paca Blanco (born 1949), environmentalist and women's rights activist
 Aida Fernández Ríos (1947–2015), climate scientist and marine biologist

 Sri Lanka 

 Michelle Dilhara (born 1996), actress and environmental activist
 Sevvandi Jayakody, consersationist and echinodermologist

 Sudan 

 Balgis Osman-Elasha, climate scientist studying climate change in Africa

 Sweden 

 Isabelle Axelsson (born 2001), young climate activist
 Inger Holmlund (1927–2019), environmentalist active in tree-planting and craft projects for women in Kenya
 Greta Thunberg (born 2003), climate change activist beginning school climate strikes in 2018

 Switzerland 

 Martine Rebetez (born 1961), climatologist working on the consequences of climate change in Switzerland
 Sonja Wipf (born 1973), plant ecologist studying climate change
 Anita Studer (born 1944), conservationist and ecologist

 Thailand 

 Kotchakorn Voraakhom (born 1981), landscape architect contributing to projects addressing climate change

 Trinidad and Tobago 

 Rahanna Alicia Juman (fl. 2000s), environmental researcher

 United Kingdom 

 Helen ApSimon (born 1942), air pollution scientist
 Sarah Martha Baker (1887–1917), botanist and ecologist
 Brenda Boardman (born 1943), domestic energy efficiency and fuel poverty researcher and campaigner
 Judith Bunbury (born 1967), geoarchaeologist
 Tamsin Edwards, climate scientist, popular communicator
 Hayley Fowler, research focused on climate change and variability on hydrological and water resource systems
 Katharine Giles (1978–2013), climate scientist researching sea ice cover, ocean circulation and wind patterns
 Jean Grove (1927-2001), glaciologist; the Little Ice Age
 Joanna Haigh (1954-), atmospheric physicist, Co-Director of Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, solar variability
 Gabriele C. Hegerl (born 1962), Professor of Climate System Science at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences
 Helene Hewitt, Met Office researcher on ocean modeling
 Ellie Highwood, Professor of Climate Physics at the University of Reading
 Joanne Johnson (born 1977), geologist, Antarctic scientist
 Caroline King-Okumu, researcher focusing on dryland ecosystems, environmental assessment and climate change
 Rachel Kyte, international strategist on sustainable energy
 Sonya Legg, oceanographer studying ocean circulation processes
 Diana Liverman (born 1954), climate impacts, vulnerability and policy
 Georgina Mace (1953–2020), ecologist and conservation scientist
 Barbara Maher (born 1960), environmental scientist researching magnetic particles and pollution
 Stephanie Peay (born 1959), ecologist and crayfish researcher
 Vicky Pope, Head of the Climate Prediction Programme at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
 Paula Reimer, radiocarbon and archaeological scientist at the 14Chrono Centre for Climate
 Emily Shuckburgh, climate scientist, mathematician and science communicator
 Liz Thomas, paleoclimatologist, ice cores, British Antarctic Survey

 United States 

 Lydia Adams-Williams (1867–1928), writer focusing on conservation and deforestation
 Alice Alldredge, (born 1949) oceanographer and researcher of marine snow and demersal zooplankton
 Tanya Atwater (born 1942), marine geologist
 Thelma Babbitt (1906–2004), civil rights and environmental activist
 Sallie Baliunas (born 1953), retired astrophysicist active in global warming and climate research
 Lisa Beal, British-born oceanographer investigating the Agulhas current
 Barbara Bell (1922–2017), astronomer contributing to climate history
 Abigail Borah, environmental activist
 Florence Elfelt Bramhall (1862–1924), forest conservationist
 Emma Lucy Braun (1889–1971), botanist, ecologist and academic
 Margaret Bryan Davis (born 1931), paleoecologist studying plant pollen
 Molly Burhans (born 1989), cartographer and environmental activist
 Elizabeth Canuel, chemical oceanographer investigating organic carbon cycling
 Rachel Carson (1907–1964), marine biologist and conservationist
 Jeannine Cavender-Bares (fl. 2000), evolutionary biologist
 Danielle Claar, marine scientist studying effect of climate on coral symbionts and parasites
 Amy C. Clement, atmospheric and marine scientist modelling climate change
 Kim Cobb (born 1974), climate scientist studying oceanography
 Lisa Goddard (1966–2022), climate scientist focused on weather forecasting
 Emma Cole (1845–1910), botanist
 Maureen Conte, biogeochemist studying long-term cycling of chemical compounds in seawater
 Allison Crimmins, head of the National Climate Assessment
 Heidi Cullen, meteorologist, chief scientist for Climate Central
 Judith Curry, climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology
 Rosanne D'Arrigo, climate researcher using dendrochronology
 Kendra Daly, oceanographer specializing in zooplankton
 Violet Dandridge (1878–1956), Smithsonian scientific illustrator
 Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux, Trinidad-born geographer and climate researcher, now in Vermont
 Sylvia Earle (born 1935), marine biologist
 Erika Edwards, researcher focusing on the evolution of plants
 Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), scientist who discovered the effect of carbon dioxide on climate
 Inez Fung, Hong Kong-born climate scientist, now in California
 Pat Gozemba (born 1940), LGBT activist focusing on the environment
 Jane Fonda (born 1937), actress, feminist and environmentalist
 Grace Voss Frederick (1905–2009), actress later focusing on natural environmental preservation
 Daphne Frias (born 1998), activist focusing on gun control, climate change and environmental and disability justice
 Inez Fung (born 1949), climate modeling, biogeochemical cycles, and climate change
 Niria Alicia Garcia (born 1993), environmental activist
 Marika Holland, scientist working on sea ice modelling
 Alice Clary Earle Hyde (1876–1943), botanical artist and conservationist
 Deborah Jacobvitz, ecologist
 Frances James (born 1930), ecologist and ornithologist
 Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, climate scientist researching greenhouse gases
 Caroline Ella Heminway Kierstead (1903–1985), geologist and micropaleontologist
 Bronwen Konecky, climatologist focusing on climate change in the tropics
 Winona LaDuke (born 1959), economist and environmentalist
 Estella Leopold (born 1927), paleobotanist and conservationist
 Beate G. Liepert, research scientist focusing on climate variability
 Lorraine Lisiecki, paleoclimatologist studying the history of climate change
 Hunter Lovins (born 1950), environmentalist and sustainable proponent
 Jane Lubchenco (born 1947), environmentalist and marine biologist
 Cherilla Storrs Lowrey (1861–1918), founder of The Outdoor Circle, Hawaii's oldest environmental organization
 Kate Marvel, climate scientist, popular communicator
 Galen McKinley, carbon cycle researcher, studying the interface between the ocean and the atmosphere
 Marcia McNutt (born 1972), geophysicist, president of the National Academy of Sciences
 Linda Mearns, geologist and climate scientist specializing in climate change assessment
 Susanne Menden-Deuer (fl. 2000s), ecologist and oceanographer
 Jill Mikucki, microbiologist, Antarctic researcher
 Twila Moon, scientist researching the Greenland ice sheet
 Marianne V. Moore, aquatic ecologist
 Sue Moore, Arctic oceanographer studying whales
 Ann Haven Morgan (1882–1966), zoologist and ecologist
 Sam Mostyn (born c. 1964), businesswomen working on climate change
 Margaret Mulholland, oceanographer studying nutrients in marine environments
 Alison Murray, biochemist, Antarctic researcher
 Margaret Nygard (1925–1995), British-born educator and conservationist
 Karen Oberhauser (born 1956), conservation biologist working with monarch butterflies
 Kittie Fenley Parker (1910–1994), botanical researcher and illustrator
 Mary Peltola (fl. 1999), indigenous politician and environmentalist
 Elsie Quarterman (1910–2014), plant ecologist
 Marilyn Raphael, Trinidad-born climate change scientist working on polar research
 Cicely Ridley (1927–2008), British-born mathematician focused on climate modelling
 Edith A. Roberts (1881–1977), pioneering plant ecologist
 Gabrielle Rocap (born 1971), marine biologist investigating marine bacteria and phytoplankton
 Joan Roughgarden (born 1946), ecologist and evolutionary biologist
 Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (born 1958), climatologist, pioneered the study of climate change and agriculture
 Joellen Louise Russell (born 1970), oceanographer and climate scientist
 Tatiana Rynearson, oceanographer studying plankton diversity
 Eva Saulitis (1963–2016), marine biologist and writer
 Sybil P. Seitzinger, oceanographer and climate scientist researching climate change and elemental cycling, especially nitrogen biogeochemistry
 Susan Solomon (born 1956), research in chlorofluorocarbons and ozone depletion
 Margaret Sordahl (1906–1995), ornithologist at the Smithsonian Astrophysucal Observatory
 Lynne Talley, oceanographer and climate scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
 Elizabeth Teter Lunn (1904–1998), biologist and ecologist
 Ellen Thomas (born 1950), Dutch-born environmental scientist specializing in marine micropaleontology and paleoceanography
 Anne M. Thompson, specialist in atmospheric chemistry and climate change
 LuAnne Thompson, oceanographer modeling movement of heat and chemical via ocean currents
 Vivian Thomson (fl 1997), environmental policy academic
 Maya Tolstoy, marine geophysicist investigating earthquakes in the deep sea
 Susan Trumbore, earth systems scientist focusing on the carbon cycle and its effects on climate
 Monica Turner (fl. 1980s), ecologist specializing in forest fires
 Julienne Stroeve, polar climate scientist working on the remote sensing of ice and snow
 Carol Van Strum (born 1940), environmentalist fighting against the use of pesticides
 Betsy Weatherhead, former head of the National Climate Assessment
 Rebecca Woodgate, oceanographer working on ocean circulation in polar regions
 Kakani Katija Young, bioengineer focusing on marine organisms
 Linda Zall, environmental scientist specializing in satellite data
 Joy Zedler (born 1943), restoration and wetland ecologist

 Uganda 

 Vanessa Nakate (born 1996), climate justice activist

 Uruguay 

 Lucrecia Covelo (1920–2000), entomologist and conservationish

 Vanuatu 

 Litiana Kalsrap (born 1992), climate activist

 Vietnam 

 Hoang Thi Than, geological engineer and archaeologist

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