Sentence examples for oceanography from inspiring English sources
The word 'oceanography' is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to the study of the ocean and its physical, chemical, geological, and biological aspects. Example: The professor specialized in oceanography and spent many years studying coral reefs and marine life in the Pacific Ocean.
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The exploration and scientific study of the oceans and ocean floor.
IMPERIALISM and oceanography often go hand in hand.
Using sound waves to distinguish between taps in different places could be used, the firm believes, in fields from oceanography to health care.
The council says it will conduct further economic analyses; McMaster, which is hoping the city will eventually come round to the party, is going ahead with its plans undaunted, and hopes to open the centre by September 2010.Into the blueThe University of Rhode Island has announced plans for a "blue" MBA an MBA combined with a master's degree in oceanography.
The continent has only one large oceanography department, at the University of Cape Town, and that is underfunded.Coastal wetlands have little protection and fishing grounds are especially vulnerable.
Speaking at a London seminar hosted by GaveKal Research, a consultancy, Jonathan Allum of Mizuho International noted how many of his fellow analysts suddenly purported to be experts on seismology, oceanography and nuclear physics.
The range of work they all do—oceanography, glaciology, marine biology, ecology, meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, geology, climatology, geodesy, space physics and more besides is inspiring, bewildering and in perhaps in places just a little redundant: one estimate has it that the village has 17 weather stations.
IN 2006 Mario Lebrato and Daniel Jones of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England, were using a remotely operated deep-sea vehicle to study the sea floor near an oil pipeline off Côte d'Ivoire.
The Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego flew a fleet of them in stacked formation over the Maldives in the Indian Ocean last year.
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and Paul Crutzen, a Dutch climate scientist who was one of the first to theorise about "nuclear winter", wanted to find out what aerosols (particles small enough to float in the atmosphere) were doing to the climate.
Marco Mucciarelli, of the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics, points out that two reductions in output at Cavone between 2008 and 2010 had no effect on earthquake rates.
Dr Fernández-Méndez thinks a shortage of these may limit the Arctic Ocean's productivity even if most of the ice melts and exposes the water beneath to light.Jon Lawrence of Britain's National Oceanography Centre has looked at what might happen to nutrient availability and productivity in an ice-free Arctic.
