glaciologist

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After chatting to the visitor centre's resident glaciologist, and even walking about on the ice if you feel up to it, you could grab a snack or sit down for a superb lunch at the Grand Hotel du Montenvers, perched high over the valley.

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  1. Same as glacialist. It will, I hope, meet with the approval of your veteran glaciologist. Dawson, in Pop. Sci. Mo., XXX. 184.

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  • Can a RC-friendly glaciologist give me her / his take on this? —  RealClimate
  • The ongoing danger to what glaciologist Lonnie Thompson has called the "fresh water bank account" of Asia is the subject of a new interactive website, "Tibetan Plateau in Peril," by the Asia Society's China Green project, and a symposium this Friday at the Asia Society in New York. —  TreeHugger
  • "Here you have precipitation only part of the year," said French glaciologist Patrick Ginot as he stood at 16,500 feet next to Zongo glacier last year. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • "Glaciers, especially tropical glaciers, are the canaries in the coal mine for our global climate system," Lonnie Thompson, a preeminent glaciologist from Ohio State University, said during a climate change forum in Peru last summer. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • Edson Ramirez, Bolivia's leading glaciologist, published a study several years ago warning that water shortages would soon begin in El Alto and the outskirts of La Paz and worsen over the next decade. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
 

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