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geoscientist

[ jee-oh-sahy-uhn-tist ]

noun

  1. a specialist in earth science.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of geoscientist1

First recorded in 1940–45; geo- + scientist

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Example Sentences

They recruited geoscientists, chemists and conservators, too.

Power is an environmental geoscientist in Canada at Trent University.

As a geoscientist, I study sea level rise and the effects of climate change.

This study coauthor is a geoscientist at National Taiwan University in Taipei.

“I like to call it nanoseismology because we’re really looking at motions on the scale of an atom,” said Nicholas Schmerr, a geoscientist at the University of Maryland who works with InSight.

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