geophysicist
Americannoun
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It’s harder to find skilled labor and there is now a lengthy wait list for equipment, said Deysel, a geophysicist and mining engineer who has previously worked at various mines across Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
Two who learned it the hard way are Peter Hotez, an eminent vaccinologist affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, and Michael E. Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025
The first set of remains at the new site were discovered in May by geophysicist Matt Peace, on land owned by Northwood Cemetery.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025
But avulsions generally “take place over decades” as a river gradually shifts its banks, says co-author Michael Steckler, a geophysicist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 17, 2024
It finally fell to two men from Cambridge University, a geophysicist named Drummond Matthews and a graduate student of his named Fred Vine, to draw all the strands together.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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