Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences

Elena Aronova is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published on the history of environmental data collection, the history of the International Geophysical Year, the history of seismology, and the historiography of science. She is the author of Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War (University of Chicago Press, 2021), which documents the history of continuous efforts to integrate scientific knowledge and new technologies—from plant genetics to computers—into historical research. She has co-edited two collections of essays: Science Studies During the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected (2016) and Data Histories (2017).

David Sepkoski is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in History of Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of many books and articles in the history of the earth and environmental sciences, including The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology (with Michael Ruse, University of Chicago Press, 2009), Rereading the Fossil Record: The Rise of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline (University of Chicago Press, 2012), and Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene (University of Chicago Press, 2020). Among other awards, he is most recently the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2019–2020.

Marco Tamborini teaches philosophy and history of science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research explores the dynamic intersections of the life sciences, engineering, and ethics, with a particular focus on bioinspired and emerging technoscientific fields. His recent book publications include The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), Entgrenzung: Die Biologisierung der Technik und die Technisierung der Biologie (Meiner, 2022), and Biorobotik zur Einführung (Junius Verlag, 2024).