glaciologist

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Etymology

glaciology +‎ -ist

Noun

glaciologist (plural glaciologists)

  1. 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.

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