Earth Sciences History

Earth Sciences History promotes and publishes historical work on all areas of the earth sciences – including geology, geography, geophysics, oceanography, paleontology, meteorology, and climatology.

The journal honors and encourages a variety of approaches to historical study: biography, history of ideas, social history, and histories of institutions, organizations, and techniques.

Articles are peer reviewed. The journal also publishes eloges and book reviews.

Issues are published twice per year (one volume per year).

Submit manuscripts by email to the Editor or to an appropriate Associate Editor (if you can not email your ms, please mail the original, two copies, and copies of all materials on CD). Book Reviews should be submitted to the Book Review Editor.

Follow the Author’s Style Sheet, Citation Guidelines and Checklist and submit the Checklist with your manuscript. When in doubt on fine points, ask the Editor.

Manuscripts should be submitted to Earth Sciences History with the understanding that upon publication, copyright will be transferred to the History of Earth Sciences Society. This understanding precludes Earth Sciences History from considering material that is under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere.

Authors are respectfully requested to make a contribution toward page charges, but publication of manuscripts is not contingent upon contributions. Color figures/plates can be included in the online edition at no charge to the author, but if color is desired in the print version, page charges will apply; contact the Editor for current rates.

All authors will receive one copy of the issue in which their article appears, as well as a pdf of their article. Printed reprints are available for a small charge; contact the Editor for current rates.

Book reviewing is a critical aspect of outreach to both professionals and the general public. Reviews are published for books covering all aspects of the history of the earth sciences. The Book Review Editor welcomes volunteers for this task, because it is impossible for one person to be aware of all books worthy of review.

Submit book reviews to the Book Review Editor

Refer to the Author’s Style Sheet, Citation Guidelines and Checklist.

Earth Science History's founding editor, Professor Gerald M. Friedmann, publishes a list of recent items relating to the history of earth sciences in each issue of the journal. Authors of relevant publications are invited to send details of them to Professor Friedmann to ensure inclusion. He may be contacted at gmfriedman@thesciencefoundation.com.

American geology; stratigraphy
Kennard Bork
Denison University, Granville OH 43023, USA
bork@denison.edu

Mineralogy and petrology; petroleum geology
William Brice
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Johnstown, PA 15904, USA
wbrice+@pitt.edu

Vertebrate paleontology, geological education, conservation, Canada
David Spalding
1105 Ogden Rd, RR No. 1, Pender Island, BC V0N 2MI, Canada
david@davidspalding.com

Mineralogy and geology; history, sociology and philosophy of geoscience; European geology
Bernhard Fritscher
Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology, Museuminsel 1, D-80306 Munich, Germany
B.Fritscher@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Geophysics
Gregory Good
Department of History, University of West Virginia, P.O. Box 6303, Morgantown, WV 26506-6303, USA
ggood@wvu.edu

Tectonics
Homer Le Grand
Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria 3145, Australia
Homer.legrand@arts.monash.edu.au

Paleontology; Latin America
Maria Margaret Lopes
Instituto de Geociencias, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CP 6152, 13083-970 Campinas, Sáo Paulo, Brazil
mmlopes@ige.unicamp.br

Oceanography
Eric Mills
Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4JI, Canada
E.Mills@dal.ca

Geomorphology and Quaternary geology
Antony Orme
Department of Geography, UCLA, P.O. Box 951524, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524, USA
orme@geog.ucla.edu

History of Fieldwork; paleontology
Irina Podgorny
Carlos Pellegrini 1219, 8vo. B, C1009ABY, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Podgorny@mail.retina.ar

Geology in Britain
James Secord
Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK
Jas1010@hermes.cam.ac.uk

18th and 19th centuries; European geology
Ezio Vaccari
Universita dell’Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy
ezio.vaccari@ununsubria.it

Invertebrate paleontology; stratigraphy; museums; Ireland
Patrick Wyse Jackson
Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
wysjcknp@tcd.ie