Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...putrid smell of hydrogen sulfide often hangs over the area like vapor from a truckload of rotten eggs. The culprit is not a leaking oil well, but nature. The ocean floor is spilling large quantities of oil and natural gas through fissures that geoloists call seeps. Says Petroleum Geologist Robert Gaal of the California State lands commission: "There are thousands of them down there. It's like a sieve...
...project has broader implications. Geologists think that oil-oozing seeps around the world may be nourishing marine microorganisms. Says U.C.L.A. Geologist Walter Reed: "Where seepage occurs, there are more and larger species of marine life." No one knows what effect capping the seeps might have on the ecological balance. Nor does anyone understand fully what causes the seeps, although in some places like Santa Barbara they seem to have been created when earthquakes fractured the sea floor, letting trapped oil and gas escape. If ARCO's pyramids succeed in capturing these fugitive riches, other oil companies may also initiate...
Many civilian scientists find the trend disturbing. Says one: "Some of my colleagues are absolutely paranoid about the Pentagon." These concerns increased last April when J.P.L.'s esteemed civilian director, Geologist Bruce Murray, 50, announced he was stepping down after six years to return to teaching, writing and research. Said he: "I believe in a personal and an institutional renewal...
...University will apparently confer one of 11 prestigious honorary degrees at tomorrow's Commencement exercises on Francis Birch '24, a retired Harvard geologist...
...Almaden is not going anywhere. Neither is Crevea or Martin. One Berkeley geologist confronted a homeowner and urged her to move, since she lived on the Calaveras fault that parallels West Street in Hollister. She shooed him off, saying, "It's my home...