How to Use oceanography in a Sentence

oceanography

noun
Definition of oceanographynext
  • Munk, who joined Scripps as a student in 1939, has had one of the most storied careers in the history of oceanography.
    — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • But the work by the three countries vying for the Arctic—and that of dozens of others elsewhere in the world—has been a bonanza for oceanography.
    — Richard Kemeny, Science | AAAS, 20 June 2019
  • Ritter invited him to join the oceanography staff in 1919.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Sears had been selected to oversee the oceanography chapters of the reports.
    — Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • Some of the classes were for fun or enrichment — like oceanography and paper plane making.
    — Paloma Esquivelstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Nearby Woods Hole is home to the preeminent school for oceanography.
    — John Konrad, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
  • Autonomous research ships could help bring the oceans to those who cannot currently access the world of oceanography.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
  • That way of doing oceanography, said Lawrence-Slavas, doesn’t transition very well between groups.
    — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 21 June 2023
  • Each episode of the series will look at a different ocean through the lenses of oceanography, earth sciences, and geography.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 18 July 2019
  • This book is for anyone who is into oceanography, sustainability or art — that's a lot of 10-year-olds!
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Their varied paths converged in the front rows of an introduction to oceanography lecture.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Aquarius is not a household name, and oceanography receives only a fraction of the funding that space exploration does.
    — Mark Hill, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2021
  • That’s the Argo Data Management system, which broke new ground for oceanography.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2022
  • Sears continued her own research but also took on the role of organizer for the emerging field of modern oceanography.
    — Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • Oreskes examines the military backing that poured into oceanography programs during World War II and the cold war.
    — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Robert Ballard, 79, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, may be slowing down.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2021
  • But campus officials say the final figures are expected to show that the school’s work in health and medicine, along with engineering and oceanography, will dominate the funding list.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The claim by Walid Nekiche at his trial last Tuesday drew widespread criticism in the media, along with the prosecution's request for a life sentence for the oceanography student.
    — Aomar Ouali, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The abrupt rupture is jeopardizing data on climate change, oceanography, and ecology that stretch back decades.
    — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 3 May 2023
  • Galleries of art, oceanography, rocks, and dinosaur bones seem counterintuitive and eccentric, but that’s good.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Russell Hopcroft, project leader and oceanography professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says the status of three research cruises planned for 2020 is unclear even as the first is scheduled to depart in five weeks.
    — Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Pushing the bounds of oceanography, scientists have slung necklace-like sensor arrays across the Atlantic to better understand the complex network of currents that the Gulf Stream belongs to, not only at the surface, but hundreds of feet deep.
    — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • July saw no decrease of algae in the Caribbean Sea, said Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanography professor who helps produce the reports.
    — Dánica Coto, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Oregon is home to a number of elite scientists who have made advances in cancer treatment, oceanography, climate change, chemistry, biology and physics.
    — Andrew Theen | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Davids, a native of San Antonio, graduated from the academy in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in oceanography.
    — Nick Anderson The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
  • But the study of these critical near- and offshore zones isn’t traditionally recognized as a single discipline in the way of oceanography or limnology, the study of bodies of freshwater, such as rivers and lakes.
    — Special To The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 9 July 2020
  • Charitha Pattiaratchi, a professor of oceanography at the University of Western Australia, said as many as 3 billion tiny plastic pellets had already been released into the sea and were washing up on beaches.
    — Time, 3 June 2021
  • However, if neodymium composition does change in fossil teeth over time, that indicates changes in oceanography.
    — Sora Kim, The Conversation, 12 July 2021
  • Museum officials proudly point out that many of the exhibits, which emphasize the science of oceanography, are interactive.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • On it: from Columbia, masters degrees in oceanography and climatology followed by a Ph.
    — Author: Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2016

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