Sentences with phrase «as a geologist studying»

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But Evan Smith, a geologist at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in New York City and co-author of the new study, had an inside track, as GIA often processes thousands of gems each day — including the large, valuable stones.

'' [The authors] stitched together geological evidence, anthropological information as well as geophysical modeling to put together this story that is tantalizing for a geologist but it's frightening for people in Hawaii,» said Robert Witter, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage, Alaska who was not involved in the study.

The analysis should serve as a warning to geologists not to rely only on that line of evidence, says Matthew Pasek, a geochemist at the University of South Florida in Tampa who was not involved in the study.

Horner and his experienced colleagues — a structural geologist; a stratigrapher; a taphonomist (one who studies what happens to animals after they die); paleontologists specializing in vertebrate, mammalian, plant, and mollusk fossils; a molecular paleontologist; and an expert on paleomagnetism — are surveying all the fauna and flora that existed during the Hell Creek period (and that survived as fossils), the ways they interacted, and how they may have evolved.

Programs such as AAAS's «On - call» Scientists, which connected the geologist to the Guinea study and the economist with the New Orleans project, can have an immediate impact on communities in need, the participants agreed.

While geologists in the energy and mineral industries face roller - coaster hiring - and - firing cycles, those who study the movement and chemistry of water seeping through rocks and sediment find demand for their expertise almost as steady as the flow of groundwater itself.

Geologists like Avouac and his colleagues, who are interested in tectonics — the study of the earth's surface and the way it changes — can use tools such as GPS and seismology to study crustal deformation that is taking place today.

Geologists studying the marble - sized rocks in the deserts of Southern Utah, US, say that these marbles must have formed in the same way as the ones on Mars.

Geologists studying a region in the Mexican state of Veracruz have discovered evidence to explain the origin of the Wilcox Formation, one of Mexico's most productive oil plays, as well as support for the theory that water levels in the Gulf of Mexico dropped dramatically as it was separated from the rest of the world's oceans and Earth entered a period of extreme warming.

Geologist have further said that the study on the zircon rocks would allow us to discover facts such as when water first existed on the Earth, how our climate changed and when life came on Earth.

«We've thought of RSL as possible liquid water flows, but the slopes are more like what we expect for dry sand,» Colin Dundas, a research geologist with the US Geological Survey's Astrogeology Science Center and a lead author on the new study, said in the statement.

As a credentialed geologist, his background in environmental studies led him to understand the impact synthetic chemicals and environmental toxins have upon the human condition.

Jesse Kelsch has studied and worked as a geologist in her favorite place, the American Southwest, since 1993.

At that time, my position was that most of the 20th century warming was natural because as a geologist, I was well aware of climate (climate is a subset of geology because when we study rocks and their depositional history, climate is a huge driver of how and why different rocks were deposited).

Mike: I started studying global warming since 1998, the same year I soloed in a single engine aircraft during the central California El Nino from hell because my experience as a geologist and my newly acquired life saving skills as a weatherman.

Alex Smith, a geologist at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, studies these fires as threats to active miners.

Despite American Association of Petroleum Geologists (of which I am a member) making that ridiculous award to Michael Chrichton, I will professionally recommend AAPG Studies in Geology # 47, «Global perspectives on climate change» as a serious scientific review of what professional geolgical scientists have concluded about climate change over the geological record.

Geologists study past climates as part of their basic work.

Geologists cherished the uniformitarian principle as the very foundation of their science, for how could you study anything scientifically unless the rules stayed the same?

Importantly, since climate is always changing due to many different factors, if the estimating geologist doesn't account for climate variability, and other factors related to the region being studied, then what may have normally been a 10 year flood may have been classified as a 500 year flood.

«Studying Snowball Earth glaciations can tell us just how bad it can get, in which case life as we know it would probably not survive,» says geologist Linda Sohl of Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

After graduate school, Trenton did postdoctoral research at the University of Washington where he studied the mechanical behavior of fault gouge from Death Valley, CA, and then worked as a consulting geologist at Golder Associates, where he created 3D discrete fracture network and fluid flow models for clients in the petroleum industry in the North and South America, and Asia, and nuclear waste isolation industries in Japan, Sweden, and Finland.