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geomorphologist

geomorphologist

9.2
A scientist who studies how rivers, mountains, and coasts form and change
  • noun
  • /ˌdʒiːoʊmɔːrˈfɑːlədʒɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : geomorfólogo
  • A geomorphologist studies how rivers shape the landscape over time.

Examples

  • Rather, as a geomorphologist, he studies how sediments move in riverbeds or along the coast.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Geomorphologists should then take part in the large debate concerning the obligations that science may owe to society.

    Academic text (1994)
  • For the most part, my fellow geomorphologists did not actively participate in the debates about theory.

    Academic text (1994)
  • But according to David Sear, a geomorphologist at the University of Southampton, "it was a bit of a duff place to build on, really."

    Academic text (2009)
  • In short, to say those two words, "alluvial fan," the geomorphologist knows what the feature looks like, how it came to be, what it's made of, and how the feature relates to surrounding elements in the landscape.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Geomorphologists, for example, recognize a kind of feature that they call an alluvial fan (Figure 2).

    Academic text (1998)
  • Aquatic ecologists, geomorphologists, and hydrologists contributed to the reports.

    Academic text (2011)
  • There are many examples of the close involvement of geomorphologists with several aspects of public policy development and implementation (Hooke 1988).

    Academic text (1994)
  • The intellectual goal for geomorphologists should be the promotion of a field based on science first and relevance second: a field resolute for scholarship but seeking to serve society.

    Academic text (1994)
  • In the mid to late 20th century, geomorphologists began to emphasize quantitative predictions of landform evolution using field estimates of erosion and deposition, mathematical models, and remote-sensed imagery.

    Academic text (2002)

Surface Forms

Morphology

geomorphologist = geomorphology (semi-transparent) = geo + morph + ologist

As a person noun, the word is formed straightforwardly from the field term 'geomorphology' plus '-ist'.

Etymology

The word geomorphologist breaks down into geo- 'earth', morph 'shape', and -ologist 'one who studies'. So a geomorphologist is someone who studies the 'shapes of the Earth's surface' and how they change over time.