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Slow slip events are not simply an academic curiosity, adds Laura Wallace, a UT Austin geodesist.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2023

“Nobody has been able to say what causes it,” says Benjamin Chao, a geodesist at Academia Sinica.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022

Bock is a geodesist, someone who studies the shape of the Earth.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2015

“Venice appears to be continuing to subside at a rate of about 2mm a year,” says Yehuda Bock, a research geodesist with Scripps who has been studying Venice subsidence since 2001.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2015

The precise determination of the altitude of his station is a matter of secondary importance to the geodesist; nevertheless it is usual to observe the zenith distances of all trigonometrical points.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various