hydrologist
- noun
- /haɪˈdrɒlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
- The hydrologist analyzed the river's flow to better understand its seasonal changes.
- groundwater hydrologists
Examples
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What are fractures and why do they pose challenges for groundwater hydrologists?
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I have degrees in geology, but wound up as a hydrologist.
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As a hydrologist and environmental scientist, I have decades of studying these things behind me.
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Yet, as a hydrologist, tell me, how much water is transported annually by the Hadley cells?
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David R. Purkey is a hydrologist with the Stockholm Environmental Institute in Davis, California.
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The park loses almost 200,000 acre-feet of water annually, says hydrologist Johnson.
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Their endeavor could add a valuable new source of data to computer models hydrologists use to forecast snowmelt.
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First, hydrologists assess the effects of land use on precipitation and on surface and subsurface runoff regimes.
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Hydrologists have already simulated the impact of different flood releases on the entire Zambesi catchment area.
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Amerman says ARS hydrologist Leonard Lane provided the vision that brought process-based hydrology to the WEPP technology.
Academic text (1997)
Surface Forms
Morphology
hydrologist = hydrology (semi-transparent) = hydro + log + ist
Hydrologist is a straightforward person noun formed from hydrology plus -ist.
Etymology
The word hydrologist breaks into hydro- 'water', -logy 'study', and -ist 'person'. Like hydrate and biologist, a hydrologist is a scientist who studies water on Earth.