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/ˌoʊʃəˈnɑɡɹəfɝ/
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[ UK /ˌəʊʃənˈɒɡɹəfɐ/ ]
[ UK /ˌəʊʃənˈɒɡɹəfɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas
How To Use oceanographer In A Sentence
- She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
- There's the sense that it's not as bad as we had originally feared; it's not that worst case scenario," said Steve Lohrenz, a biological oceanographer at the University of Southern Mississippi. Gulf Oil Spill 6 Month Anniversary: A Look At The Health Of The Ocean
- Among the participants: dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno, photographer Frans Lanting, environmental activist Majora Carter (a MacArthur Foundation winner), oceanographer Dave Gallo and futurist/hacker Pablos Holman. Ideas Calendar: Oct. 9-15
- Until recently, oceanographers gathered much of their data from solitary vessels that they navigated by means of stars and sextants.
- The difference between adjacent water bodies allows physical oceanographers to calculate rates of water movement in the deep sea.
- I'm a physical oceanographer based at Southampton Oceanography Centre, where we also do climate research.
- A Soviet oceanographer added his own theory to the pile in 1979, when he charted a sunken plateau about 560 miles off the western coast of Portugal.
- We disagree that charred fungal sclerotia ... have the same morphology" as certain carbonaceous spherules, paleoceanographer James Kennett writes in an e-mail. News
- William Beebe's bathyscaphe, based on a steel balloon, and the submersibles which followed, changed the way in which oceanographers were able to gather information.
- Using case studies and projections, this book is an excellent source of information for marine biologists, oceanographers, aquarists, and fishery scientists.