Murrin is a geophysicist with strong interests in military history and classic sailing yachts.
"It was quite a bit smaller, " said Julie Dutton, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
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As the oil industry deals with the lowest inflation-adjusted prices in a generation, geophysicist L. Decker Dawson laughs.
Don Blakeman, a USGS geophysicist, said the California quake had nothing to do with the quake that devastated Turkey.
Last year, for example, Alik Ismail-Zadeh, a prominent Russian geophysicist, applied for a visa to attend a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
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Roger Anderson, a geophysicist and director of the Energy Research Center at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, says that the discoveries may have only begun.
Chief Executive Finian O'Sullivan, a geophysicist, has 85 million barrels of proven reserves on tap, with 20 wells in exploration in Turkmenistan, Congo and Egypt.
The author, a geophysicist with a flair for writing and a passion for adventure, weaves her first-hand accounts of these islands into the scientific themes that preoccupy her.
The geophysicist, who has worked for Conoco and Exxon, said the kick during drilling in 2009 - a year before the spill - was evidence of gas or oil intrusion.
Udo Barckhausen, a geophysicist on board the Sonne, told CNN that the 7-meter (22-foot) buoys are programmed to detect changes in the seabed, and send alerts to the Indonesian mainland.
"We found distinctive, and in some cases, dramatic increases in the height and diameter of individual shrubs, " wrote geophysicist Matthew Sturm and colleagues in the May 31 edition of the journal Nature.
But Sarah Tebbens, a geophysicist at the University of South Florida, noticed that the zigs and zags were similar to those that form on the surface of lava lakes in volcanic craters.
What would have taken three months to render on a Cray in 1993 now takes two hours or less on a PC, says Barney Issen, Chevron's senior geophysicist in charge of interpreting seismic data.
While it's exciting to work beside world-class scientists such as ice-sheet climatologist Jason Box, glaciologist Alun Hubbard and geophysicist Richard Bates, it's equally disheartening to be here bearing witness to the catastrophic events they record.
Another Cuban defector, geophysicist Tose Oro, observed that the complete absence of the sophisticated human and technological infrastructure needed to support a safe nuclear reactor program seriously compounded the risks inherent in the Soviet-Cuban scheme.
Roger Bilham, a geophysicist at the University of Colorado, says the latest quake may have released only a tenth of the pent-up energy that has accumulated along the region's fault lines due to tectonic shifts.
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