Sentences with phrase «glaciologist john»
«Unstable,» wrote Ohio State University glaciologist John Mercer in 1968.
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COLUMBUS — Thirty - six years after catching flak for one of the most bold and dire predictions about global warming, former Ohio State University glaciologist John H. Mercer is being hailed as a visionary.
All of these observations match the response, predicted in the late 1970s by glaciologist John Mercer, of the Antarctic to anthropogenic global warming.
Not exact matches
«For decades, glaciologists had sort of been toiling in obscurity with small - scale tools,» says NASA's John Sonntag, a veteran of those early flights and still part of the team.
But the exploration of Antarctica's hidden lakes has just begun, says John Priscu, a glaciologist at Montana State University in Bozeman, who is overseeing the Lake Whillans foray.
The new finding appears to be the fulfillment of a prediction made in 1978 by an eminent glaciologist, John H. Mercer of the Ohio State University.
The vulnerability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or WAIS, has been appreciated for a long time; all the way back in 1968, an eccentric Ohio State glaciologist named John Mercer observed that the WAIS was peculiarly unstable, and that it may have melted away in the geologically recent past.