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Climate Scientist Remembered For His Enthusiasm, Dedication

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Gordon Hamilton was a glaciologist at the University of Maine. (Laure Noualhat)
Gordon Hamilton was a glaciologist at the University of Maine. (Laure Noualhat)

Gordon Hamilton was a world-renowned glaciologist at the University of Maine. He studied the relationship between ice sheets and oceans. He died last month in Antarctica when his snowmobile plunged into a glacial crevice while he was mapping a trail. He was 50 years old.

We spoke to three researchers who worked with Hamilton and they told us what he and his work meant to them.

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Jessica Scheick, Ph.D. candidate at the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine.

Ellyn Enderlin, research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine.

Fiamma Straneo, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

This segment aired on November 4, 2016.

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