glaciologist

English

Etymology

glaciology +‎ -ist

Noun

glaciologist (plural glaciologists)

A scientist who studies glaciers.
- 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
  To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.

Translations

one who studies glaciers

Dutch: glacioloog (nl) m, glaciologe f
Estonian: glatsioloog
French: glaciologue (fr) m or f
German: Glaziologe (de) m, Glaziologin (de) f, Gletscherforscher (de) m, Gletscherforscherin (de) f
Italian: glaciologo (it) m, glaciologa f
Romanian: glaciolog (ro) m, glaciologă (ro) f
Turkish: buzul bilimci (tr)

Further reading

Glaciology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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