oceanographer
Americannoun
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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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