volcanologist

[vahl-kuh-nahl-uhj-ist]

noun

1. an expert in volcanology; a scientist who studies volcanoes.

Example Sentences

“Iceland is essentially one of the best places in the world to study this … because we have both volcanism and glaciers,” volcanologist Michelle Parks of the Icelandic Meteorological Office told Reuters.

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Patterson signed on and started doing his own research, with the help of a volcanologist.

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"A cool thing about these eruptions is that there were a bunch of them in sequence that were remarkably similar; that's relatively unusual," said Leif Karlstrom, a volcanologist at the UO.

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"This link is very rare," said Joe Dufek, a volcanologist at the UO.

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Volcanic stomp-rockets may happen at other volcanoes as well, although they’re likely rare says Michael Manga, a volcanologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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