Word info

glaciologist

Noun

Meaning

glaciologist (plural glaciologists)

A scientist who studies glaciers.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland. Source: Internet

Chris Shuman, a glaciologist based at the NASA’s Space Flight Center which is also a glaciologist at the University of Maryland also suggested that the holes could be the result of the warm water that melted through the arctic ocean. Source: Internet

Eric Rignot, a glaciologist from the University of California, Irvine, said that it probably originated from one of the nearby glaciers that flow down the fjords along Greenland’s west coast. Source: Internet

I’m a glaciologist, and even though I’d grown up hiking near the glaciers of the Swiss Alps, the ice and landscape near the South Pole were completely different than anything I’d ever seen before. Source: Internet

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