Mario Giovinetto

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

Education and University

Giovinettos scientific training began at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, he graduated with a Ph.D. (1968 ) in Geography, with minors in geology and geophysics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has held various academic positions held at the University of Wisconsin, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Calgary, where he worked as a department manager. He was a Principal Scientist at the Department of Geodynamics, Raytheon Technical Services Company, and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Calgary.

Career

Giovinetto was actively involved in the investigation of the polar region, which began in 1952. He participated in projects funded by the National Science Foundation ( USA) and other government research institutions in Argentina and Canada were supported. His expedition experience includes, among others, three expeditions to mountain glaciers in the Andes ( South America) and in Africa ( 1952-1955 ), winter stays in two Arctic research stations ( Byrd Station in 1957 and in the Amundsen -Scott South Pole Station 1958) and nine summer in Antarctica and Greenland ( 1953-1978 ). He has recorded more than 2000 snow -mile, made observations of iceberg landscapes and has spent nine years trying to live in small teams under extreme weather conditions and isolated. He made his glacier and climate research as an employee of the Instituto Argentino Antartico ( 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 of the Geophysical and Polar research Center, University of Wisconsin (Madison, 1961-1968 )

In his research, he developed estimates of mass and energy exchange between the atmosphere, the oceans (including the ice) and ice sheets in both hemispheres, which are used for models of climate change.

In 2001, Giovinetto in a workshop at the NASA -Johnson Space Center in part ( "Antarctic Exploration Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration" ). There, his experiences were analyzed with winter expeditions to meet with the objective predictions of loads and that depended on behavior of astronauts on Mars and the moon, as it takes corresponding parallels to a long polar winter expedition.

Honors

For his services he received awards from the U.S. and Argentina.

The Mt Giovinetto is named after him. The mountain is located in Antarctica and is 4090 m high.

Publications (selection)

Giovinetto co-wrote many technical reports and written some himself. Many of them are available on the web.

• 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)