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geoscientist
[ jee-oh-sahy-uhn-tist ]
/ ˌdʒi oʊˈsaɪ ən tɪst /
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noun
a specialist in earth science.
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How to use geoscientist in a sentence
This study coauthor is a geoscientist at National Taiwan University in Taipei.
Giant worms may have hidden beneath the ancient seafloor to ambush prey|Helen Thompson|February 16, 2021|Science News For Students“I like to call it nanoseismology because we’re really looking at motions on the scale of an atom,” said Nicholas Schmerr, a geoscientist at the University of Maryland who works with InSight.
Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows|Robin George Andrews|February 1, 2021|Quanta MagazineThe fossil was probably found by local quarrymen who extract paving slabs from the fossil-bearing limestones of the Crato Formation, says study coauthor Eberhard Frey, a geoscientist at the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany.
A newfound feathered dinosaur sported fuzz and weird rods on its shoulders|John Pickrell|December 14, 2020|Science NewsShe brought a team of social scientists and geoscientists together to study how different interventions can help.
This year’s SN 10 scientists aim to solve some of science’s biggest challenges|Science News Staff|September 30, 2020|Science News