A scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas

Usage examples of oceanographer.

Like you, I commissioned studies--mostly by Canadian, Norwegian, and Australian glaciologists, oceanographers, and cold weather experts.

Modern oceanographers had thoroughly mapped the floor of the Atlantic Ocean and there was definitely no lost continent lurking there.

They belonged to Tulsi Ram Sharma, an oceanographer from Bombay so thin he had to stand twice in the same place to cast a shadow.

Even with modern technology, bottles were the principal means by which oceanographers sampled and determined the chemical and biological properties of the sea.

As a geophysical oceanographer Suzanne was well aware that the Mohorovicic discontinuity was the name given to a specific layer within the earth that marked an abrupt change in the velocity of sound or seismic waves.

SAA stood for a Suboceanic Acoustic Array, a relic of the Cold War now used by oceanographers worldwide to listen for whales.

Fitzpatrick, one of the oceanographers, a few marine biologists, and six energo-robots from the reserve stock.

Meanwhile, throughout the 1950s oceanographers were undertaking more and more sophisticated surveys of the ocean floors.

Well into the 1950s, the best maps available to oceanographers were overwhelmingly based on a little detail from scattered surveys going back to 1929 grafted onto, essentially an ocean of guesswork.

The gloves washed up all over, from Vancouver to Vietnam, helping oceanographers to trace currents more accurately than they ever had before.

Only oceanographers and those few others who were accustomed to thinking of the sea in depth as well as on its surface regarded the Ridge in its true light.

The crater of the volcano Santorini had been investi- pyramids, embalming, a 365-day calendar, and a mythology gated by leading oceanographers, searching for clues.

Although they encountered many creatures that had not been seen before, the limits of visibility and the fact that neither of the intrepid aquanauts was a trained oceanographer meant they often weren’t able to describe their findings in the kind of detail that real scientists craved.

Quite gratified at attending a beach picnic with senior faculty, I was startled to have a question fired at me by Hugh Bradner, a well known oceanographer: Could a cable be hung down from an artificial earth satellite until it touched the ground?

Though it may seem odd that oceanographers should get involved with such an idea, this is not surprising when one realises that they are about the only people (since the great days of barrage balloons) who concern themselves with very long cables hanging under their own weight.