physics

Mario Giovinetto

Mario Giovinetto is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Mario Giovinetto rather than just read about it. In short: Mario Giovinetto (1933 – 6 January 2024) was an Argentine glaciologist, climatologist and geographer. He was a Canadian citizen with permanent resident status in the United States.

Key takeaways

Mario Giovinetto belongs to physics; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Mario Giovinetto to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Mario Giovinetto from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Mario Giovinetto (1933 – 6 January 2024) was an Argentine glaciologist, climatologist and geographer. He was a Canadian citizen with permanent resident status in the United States.

Career Mario Giovinetto was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. was active in polar research beginning in 1952. He participated in projects supported by the National Science Foundation (US) and other federal research agencies in Argentina and Canada. His field work experience includes three expeditions to high-mountain glaciers in the Andes Mountains (South America) and in Africa (1952–1955), winter stays at two Antarctic stations (Byrd Station, 1957 and South Pole Station, 1958), and nine summer-seasons in Antarctica and Greenland (1953–1978). He has logged more than 2,000 miles of over-snow traverse, made observations at a number of sea-ice and iceberg sites, and spent approximately nine years as a member of small isolated teams working in demanding environments. His glaciology and climatology research was done while affiliated with the Instituto Antartico Argentino (Buenos Aires; 1953–1956), Arctic Institute of North America (New York; 1956–1959), 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). His research led to estimates of mass and energy exchange between atmosphere, ocean (including sea ice) and ice sheets of both hemispheres that are used in global climate change model construction. His contributions have been recognized in several awards from US and Argentine government agencies. Mount Giovinetto is a 4090 m/13,419 ft mountain named after him in the Antarctic Ellsworth Mountains Sentinel Range. In 2001 Giovinetto participated in a NASA Johnson Space Center workshop, "Antarctic Explorations Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration", where the isolated polar environment experience of researchers was used to help predict issues that could arise in human crew extraplanetary exploration. There are many parallels between a winter-long remote polar settlement and one on the Moon or Mars.

Education and affiliations Mario Giovinetto's higher education began at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and culminated in a Ph.D. (1968) in geography with a minor in geology and geophysics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has held academic positions at the University of Wisconsin, the University of California - Berkeley, and the University of Calgary where he served as department head. He was principal scientist at the Department of Geodynamics, Raytheon Technical Services Company and has held the appointment of professor emeritus, University of Calgary.

Publications Giovinetto has written or co-authored numerous technical reports, examples are:

References

External links Antarctica's Last Sentinel In Memoriam Mario Giovinetto, Faculty of Arts

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Mario Giovinetto

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Mario Giovinetto claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In physics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Mario Giovinetto before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Mario Giovinetto ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Mario Giovinetto

In research: Mario Giovinetto appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Mario Giovinetto in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Mario Giovinetto is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1933 births, 2024 deaths, Argentine emigrants to Canada, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Mario Giovinetto outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Mario Giovinetto in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Mario Giovinetto means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Mario Giovinetto out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Mario Giovinetto in simple terms?

Mario Giovinetto (1933 – 6 January 2024) was an Argentine glaciologist, climatologist and geographer. He was a Canadian citizen with permanent resident status in the United States.

Why does Mario Giovinetto matter?

Because it connects several physics ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Mario Giovinetto?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Mario Giovinetto.