oceanographer
Noun
Meaning
a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas
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At the World Conservation Congress, calls for 50% MPA coverage came from several high-profile speakers, including oceanographer Sylvia Earle and biologist Edward O. Wilson.
Douglas Martinson, an oceanographer at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, has documented this process on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, where crabs are invading.
In 2000, Gregory Stone, an oceanographer at the New England Aquarium, went diving in the Phoenix Islands, an uninhabited archipelago belonging to Kiribati in the remote central Pacific.
But in 2007, following a hunch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographer Richard Feely put to sea on a research trip off the West Coast of North America.
Free time for Millan means keeping pace with Andrea, his oceanographer wife, and his sons Jayce, 3, and Beck, 1. He volunteers as president of the board at the Early School in Moiliili, which soaks up “more time than you would think,” he says cheerfully.
Yesterday, we invited all of you to talk with oceanographer Sylvia Earle about her adventures as a deep sea diver.