The phrase "a scientist tasked with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a scientist who has been assigned a specific responsibility or duty.
Example: "The research paper was authored by a scientist tasked with studying the effects of climate change on marine life."
Alternatives: "a scientist assigned to" or "a scientist given the responsibility of".
"What happens in the Mars movies, where people get swirled up in dust devils — that's not going to happen," Ashwin Vasavada, a planetary scientist tasked with coördinating NASA's weather predictions for the landing, told me.
Every few years, a group of scientists tasked with keeping an eye on standard, universal time tack on a "leap second" to make up for the extremely gradual slowing of Earth's rotation and keep our clocks on track.
In response to the Deepwater Horizon spill, McNutt organized the Flow Rate Technical Group, a team of scientists tasked with estimating the rate at which oil was leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from a well in the seafloor that had been damaged by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which was owned and operated by the oil company BP.
In 2011 the star was flagged up again by several members of Kepler's "Planet Hunters" team – a group of 'citizen scientists' tasked with analysing the data from the 150,000 stars Kepler was watching.
Although the decreed definition of the kilogramme specified water at 0 °C — a highly stable temperature point — the scientists tasked with producing the new practical realisation chose to redefine the standard and perform their measurements at the most stable density point: the temperature at which water reaches maximum density, which was measured at the time as 4 °C.
It would be exciting to meet a studio technical team filled with engineers and data scientists tasked with replacing the technological gap in their content creation and delivery systems.
Another new Biocon R&D center, a collaboration between Abbott Laboratories (#15) and Syngene, employs 50 scientists tasked with developing nutritional products for the Indian market, which is worth an estimated $1 billion.
Sportsmen were increasingly prepared to go to any length to outdo their competitors, and devised novel ways to foil the scientists tasked with catching cheats.
Even NASA has tried to get in on the action, although its vision seems somewhat lacking when compared with the many tractor-beam scenarios already laid out in science fiction: the team of scientists tasked with the job are supposed to come up with more efficient ways of clearing "orbital debris," i.e., space garbage.
The scientist is tasked with striking a balance between using a variable that is interpretable and one that is perfectly standardized and normally distributed.
