Word: glaciologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Richard C. Hubley, 31, zestful, white-haired geologist, glaciologist, coordinator of the U.S. International Geophysical Year glaciological program for the Northern Hemisphere, leader of a four-man scientific expedition encamped (at 8,000 ft.) since April on McCall Glacier in Alaska's Brooks Range; apparently by his own hand (stripped to the waist, he walked some 200 yd. from camp, lay down in zero weather, froze in time-honored Eskimo-suicide fashion...
Under Siple's direction, four meteorologists, a glaciologist, a seismologist and upper-atmosphere specialists will dig deep into the antarctic's frozen crust and probe far into its icy, gale-lashed upper atmosphere. While they pursue their specialties, other scientists will be working at six other U.S. bases around the rim of the 5,000,000-sq.-mi. continent. Like the polar scientists of ten other nations now assaulting Antarctica, all are participants in the International Geophysical Year studies of 1957-58. The I.G.Y's objective: a free exchange of the newly gained scientific information among...
Organized in 1948, by the American Geographical Society, JIRP was led by Glaciologist Maynard Malcolm Miller (now 30), who decided that the Juneau Ice Field was an ideal subject for a long-range study of glaciers. It is comparatively accessible, only twelve miles from Juneau. Out of the huge field (700 sq. mi.) flow at least eleven glaciers, ten of which are slowly receding. The eleventh, which particularly intrigued the scientists, is the great Taku glacier, which has advanced more than 3½ miles in the last 50 years...
JIRP is still a young project, which Glaciologist Miller thinks should be continued for at least 50 years. "Glaciers," says Miller, "write autobiographies, and we're just beginning to read them...