glaciology
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Regine Hock, professor of glaciology at the University of Oslo, has been visiting the Alps since the 1970s.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2025
"It may likely not be as hot as 2023 — because that was an El Nino event, which has now died down," said Imperial College London glaciology professor Martin Siegert.
From Salon • May 24, 2024
Wilson Suárez, professor of mountain hydrology and glaciology at Peru’s La Molina National Agrarian University, said those factors constitute “an ideal cocktail” for the small lagoons in the high Andean areas to dry up.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2022
The novel certainly informs—Priest offers pages of scientific explanations of glaciology and the Year Without a Summer in 1816—but it doesn’t develop an emotional core.
From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2022
Students of glaciology are more and more thoroughly convinced that glaciation depends on the availability of moisture even more than upon low temperature.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth
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