paleoclimatologist
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- noun
- /ˌpeɪliˈoʊklaɪməˌtɑlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
- Dr. Linda Smith, a prominent paleoclimatologist, discovered evidence of ancient droughts in the region.
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"I think the jury's still out on why those groups looking at similar metrics come to different conclusions," says paleoclimatologist Kevin Anchukaitis of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, who was not involved in either study.
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And I can tell you as a paleoclimatologist, it's been the highest time.
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Michael Mann is a paleoclimatologist.
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Michael Mann is a paleoclimatologist.
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The movie follows Jack, a paleoclimatologist for NOAA; his son Sam, a high school student; and his wife Lucy, a doctor.
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"Can you also email Gene Eugene Wahl, a paleoclimatologist in Boulder, Colorado, and get him to do the same...
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It would be great if I could get some insightful responses from a paleoclimatologist to some of the criticisms I've seen of pale-proxy data sources and their accuracy.
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A paleoclimatologist studies sediment samples to understand climate changes from thousands of years ago.
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The paleoclimatologist explained how ice core data reveals past atmospheric conditions on Earth.
Surface Forms
Morphology
paleoclimatologist = paleoclimatology (semi-transparent) = paleo + climat + ology + ist
The step from the technical field name to the agent noun is a regular and predictable -ist formation.
Etymology
Paleoclimatologist is made of three parts: paleo- ('ancient'), climate, and -ologist ('one who studies'), and you can see paleo- in paleontology and -ologist in biologist. So, a paleoclimatologist is a scientist who studies 'ancient climates'.