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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
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
That recent slowdown puzzled researchers, because sea level contributions from melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland are actually increasing, says Christopher Watson, a geodesist at the University of Tasmania in Australia.
From Science Magazine ● May 11, 2015
No geodesist can proceed far in his work without encountering the irregularities of the mathematical surface, and it is necessary that he should know how they affect his astronomical observations.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
