glaciologist
Americannoun
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"Finding that thermal convection can happen within an ice sheet goes slightly against our intuition and expectations. Ice is at least a million times softer than the Earth's mantle, though, so the physics just work out. It's like an exciting freak of nature," says glaciologist and lead author Robert Law.
From Science Daily
Nearly all of the planet's land ice -- about 99 percent -- is stored in the polar ice sheets, mainly in Antarctica and the Arctic, especially Greenland, glaciologist Christian Vincent told AFP.
From Barron's
Brugman was a glaciologist, a scientist who studied the movement of glaciers.
From Literature
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“If that eruption had happened a half hour later, we would’ve driven right in the path of the mudflows that came down,” said glaciologist Mindy Brugman, echoing the same thoughts as Don Swanson up in the air.
From Literature
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"I'm just so excited to look at that and just see the whole bed of Antarctica at once," said Prof Robert Bingham, a glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh who co-authored the study.
From BBC
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