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oceanographer

American  
[oh-shuh-nahg-ruhf-er] / ˌoʊ ʃəˈnɑg rəf ər /

noun

  1. someone engaged or having expertise in the study of oceanography.


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Visually, Price dropped the room’s grandiose oceanographer monument to the bottom of the sea.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

"The saying goes 'what happens in Antarctica doesn't stay in Antarctica'," BAS oceanographer Peter Davis told AFP during a tour of the vessel as it prepared to depart Harwich, eastern England, on Monday.

From Barron's • Oct. 12, 2025

David Schwab, an oceanographer who developed a computer model of the conditions, said the ship “got to the worst possible place, at the worst possible time.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

A leading oceanographer who analysed weather data also said it was not plausible that a huge wave had hit the vessel.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 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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