How to Use geoscience in a Sentence

geoscience

noun
  • Predicting earthquakes is one of the holy grails of the geosciences.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
  • In a sense, drilling into the mantle might be the geoscience equivalent of a moonshot … or a great white whale.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2011
  • The role is niche, tied to the energy sector, and requires a master’s degree in geoscience.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • In the oil and gas industry, this leads to a silo of geoscience, a silo of well design, a silo of production management and so on.
    — Francois Laborie, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Using the website, users can zoom and pan around different thematic geoscience web maps of the region and even generate custom maps of their own.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2020
  • The consequences of the lava-vs-mud debate may someday spill beyond the geoscience community.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 21 May 2020
  • But there must be action from geoscientists and geoscience organizations as well.
    — Meghana Ranganathan, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Second, geoscience must be shored up in universities and colleges – these institutions, too, follow the money.
    — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Jim Head, a professor of planetary geosciences at Brown University was there for them all.
    — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • My background is actually, not in production and operations; my background is in geoscience.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • That said, the faculty at geoscience departments in the United States has more white faculty than some other sciences.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Brand went on to earn degrees in geology and geosciences, both with a concentration in paleontology.
    — Amy Carleton, Charlotte Observer, 16 May 2024
  • The number of Asian Americans earning geoscience degrees has decreased since the mid-1990s.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Exxon, like many oil and gas companies, employs scores of scientists, and plenty of those scientists have advanced backgrounds in environmental and geoscience.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 9 June 2021
  • Humes, who is double majoring in French and Geology, wants to work in the environmental sector of geosciences.
    — Erika Rose, Post-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Today, the geosciences, to which paleontology belongs, are by far the least diverse of all STEM fields.
    — Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The caller proves to be her neighbor from two floors above, a geoscience professor at the New York Institute of Technology.
    — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Russian geoscience only embraced the theory of plate tectonics in the final years before the Soviet Union collapsed.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • These particles have been in wide use for decades, but new imaging techniques are expanding the field to the study of rocks and sediments for geoscience, nondestructive analyses of art and antiquities, and even living plants.
    — James Riordon, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
  • Our solution is to combine AI systems with geoscience expertise to figure out what piece of information reduces our uncertainty the most.
    — Josh Goldman, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2023
  • One member of the current team, however, adjunct professor of geoscience David Finkelstein, is planning experiments closer to home.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
  • Fox has obtained advanced degrees in meteorology, geosciences and mass communications, and has been the chief at KSEE for eight years.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Finally – and what prompted me to write this post – a superb example of effective crank-battling is this post by Suvrat on the geoscience blog Reporting on a Revolution.
    — Brian Romans, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2008
  • Jianjun Yin, a professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona, found similar results in reviewing tide gauge and surface altimetry data.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The state-of-the-art Science Teaching Hub, which opened last year, is designed to provide specialized training and support for students in chemistry, medicine, biological science, geoscience and more.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Michael Oppenheimer, one of the report’s authors and a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Modern geoscience has identified several key factors of rocks that make a region particularly rich in petroleum, including their ability to generate and hold hydrocarbons.
    — Scott L. Montgomery, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
  • And this is going to be an opportunity to hopefully bring in a lot of members of the AI and geoscience community, also other experts and stakeholders, from different sectors, to start to look at the best way to tackle this this question.
    — Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • In addition, Boise State geosciences professor Jen Pierce is measuring the effects of fires on our forests and rangelands, and using geologic records to understand how much wildfires today differ from those in the past.
    — Mark Rudin, idahostatesman, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Twenty years ago, during my first year as a geoscience undergraduate, a lecturer told me that predicting when and where the next major eruption would take place was a pipe dream — the implication being that volcanoes are far too idiosyncratic and mercurial to have much in common with one another.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026

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