Mario Giovinetto

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Mario Giovinetto (* 1933 in La Plata , Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is a geologist , climatologist and geographer . He is a Canadian citizen and permanent resident of the United States .

Education and university

Giovinetto's scientific training began at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata , he graduated with a Ph.D. (1968) in Geography with a minor in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Wisconsin , Madison . He has held various academic positions at the University of Wisconsin, the University of California, Berkeley , and the University of Calgary , where he served as a department head. He was a Principal Scientist in the Department of Geodynamics, Raytheon Technical Services Company and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary.

Career

Giovinetto was actively involved in the study of the polar region, which began in 1952. He took part in projects supported by the National Science Foundation (USA) and other government research institutions in Argentina and Canada . His expedition experience includes three expeditions to mountain glaciers in the Andes ( South America ) and Africa (1952–1955), winter stays in two Arctic research stations ( Byrd Station 1957 and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station 1958) and nine summers in the Antarctic and Greenland (1953-1978). He has recorded over 2000 miles of snow, made observations of iceberg landscapes and has spent a total of nine years living in small teams under extreme weather conditions and in isolation. He did his glacier and climate research as an employee of the Instituto Antartico Argentino ( Buenos Aires , 1953-1956), the Arctic Institute of North America ( New York , 1956-1959), the Institute of Polar Studies (now Byrd Polar Research Center , Ohio State University , Columbus , 1959–1961), and the Geophysical and Polar Research Center, University of Wisconsin (Madison, 1961–1968)

During his research, he worked out estimates of the mass and energy exchange between the atmosphere, the oceans (including their ice) and ice surfaces in both hemispheres , which are used for models of climate change .

In 2001 Giovinetto took part in a workshop at NASA - Johnson Space Center ("Antarctic Explorations Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration"). There, his experiences with winter expeditions were analyzed, with the aim of making predictions about the loads and the dependent behavior of astronauts on Mars and the moon, as one assumes corresponding parallels to a winter-long polar expedition.

Honors

He has received awards from the USA and Argentina for his services.

The 4090 m high Mount Giovinetto in the West Antarctic Ellsworth Mountains is named after him.

Publications (selection)

Giovinetto has helped write many technical reports and wrote some himself. Many of them can be found on the Internet.

  • Reassessment of Net Surface Mass Balance in Antarctica (Journal of Climate, 1999)
  • Mass changes of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and shelves and contributions to sea-level rise: 1992-2002 (Journal of Glaciology, 2005)
  • Glaciological Studies on the McMurdo-South Pole Traverse, 1960-1961 (Ohio State University, Institute of Polar Studies; no.7; 1963)
  • Atmospheric net transport of water vapor and latent heat across 60 ° S (Journal of Geophysical Research, 1996)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 693 kB) Antarctic Explorations Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration: A Workshop Report - NASA @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ston.jsc.nasa.gov
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 693 kB) Antarctic Explorations Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration: A Workshop Report - NASA @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ston.jsc.nasa.gov
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 693 kB) Antarctic Explorations Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration: A Workshop Report - NASA @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ston.jsc.nasa.gov

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personal data
SURNAME Giovinetto, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian geologist, climatologist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH La Plata , Buenos Aires , Argentina