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  • noun chemistry, geology A chemist or geologist who specializes in geochemistry

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Examples

  • With little hope of reducing emissions in the near term-some scientists, such as geochemist Wally Broecker of Columbia University think we'll be lucky to stop at saltwater mist to increase cloud cover, even flotillas of mirrors in space.

    Scientific American 2009

  • "We released significantly more of these elements when we tested nuclear weapons on a global scale and they haven't caused much of a problem," said marine geochemist Timothy Kenna who studies radiation and the ocean at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York.

    Nuclear Impact on Marine Life Is Expected to Be Minimal Robert Lee Hotz 2011

  • Ann Maest, a leading geochemist, found that many Chevron pit sites "still contain high levels of ... petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants" and are in close proximity to wells used for drinking water.

    Chevron Should Pay for Its Pollution in Ecuador 2010

  • The total amount of oiled marshes has shrunk from 430 miles of shoreline, at the height of the spill, to around 150 miles today, most of it in Louisiana, says Jacqueline Michel, a geochemist and shoreline cleanup coordinator working for NOAA.

    On anniversary, still hard to measure full damage from BP oil spill 2011

  • She worked with geochemist Ariel Anbar at Arizona State University and he introduced her to Paul Davies, the unconventional physicist/astrobiologist and prolific writer, who already had a strong interest in the “shadow biosphere.”

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted.

    Who thought up the "cap and trade" emissions program? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Geoff Plumlee, a research geochemist with the U.S. Geological Survey, sifted through dust samples in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 to determine what in that particulate matter might affect first responders.

    Navy researcher links toxins in war-zone dust to ailments 2011

  • Ira Leifer, a petroleum geochemist also at UC Santa Barbara who co-wrote a rebuttal to the 2011 paper published in Science, said the latest study was limited because it was based on a computer model "which is only as good as the input or assumptions" on which it is based.

    How Microbes Teamed to Clean Gulf Gautam Naik 2012

  • Geoff Plumlee, a research geochemist with the U.S. Geological Survey, sifted through dust samples in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 to determine what in that particulate matter might affect first responders.

    Navy researcher links toxins in war-zone dust to ailments 2011

  • She worked with geochemist Ariel Anbar at Arizona State University and he introduced her to Paul Davies, the unconventional physicist/astrobiologist and prolific writer, who already had a strong interest in the “shadow biosphere.”

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

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