oceanographer
Americannoun
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Bradley Moore, an oceanographer at the University of California, San Diego, studies marine microbes and the chemicals they produce, including compounds that have potential applications in human medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Andrew Leising, a research oceanographer at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center, said at this point, “atmospheric changes due to El Niño are likely helping maintain these warmer-than-normal temperatures” off the Southern California coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
"A cold Atlantic doesn't necessarily mean a colder Europe," Gerard McCarthy, oceanographer at Ireland's Maynooth University, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
"Deep water in the Southern Ocean is normally found below 200 meters," says Dr. Léa Olivier, AWI oceanographer and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
As if to prove his point, headlines flared in 2007 when a twenty-six-person scientific team led by the oceanographer James Kennett proposed that a comet three miles in diameter struck Canada eleven thousand years ago.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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